Example sentences of "[prep] a much wide [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because the anthropology which they used and reinterpreted was part of a much wider work which went beyond and across any disciplinary boundaries . |
| 2 | The use of aisles permitted the erection of a much wider building than would otherwise have been possible . |
| 3 | Apart from the specific history of the status of women that Engels was proposing , he was again stressing that the status of women is not an independent fact , perhaps explained by transcendental ideas concerning the nature of men and women , but rather that men 's and women 's ideas about women were all aspects of a much wider system which included the whole political economy and its internal logic . |
| 4 | The social panic surrounding the emergence of the Teddy Boys formed part of a much wider structure of feeling in 1950s Britain that the social changes wrought on the postwar world were destroying the old ‘ British way of life ’ and the former civility of the British people , and the Teds were understood to be symptomatic of these social alterations . |
| 5 | The reorganization of local government described in Chapter 4 confirmed that local government was indeed part of a much wider state system , and the 1973 oil crisis followed by the onset of economic depression deepened the pressures on that system . |
| 6 | But when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , local government found itself at the centre of a much wider conflict regarding the role of the state as a whole , and the position of local government began to be ‘ reappraised ’ . |
| 7 | The populace generally played little part in that agitation , but when Wilkes returned from the exile in 1768 to which he had fled from fear of imprisonment , debt and the fighting of a duel , to fight the Middlesex election , he became the symbol of a much wider agitation . |
| 8 | COSE , it turns out , is part of a much wider recipe that was originally cooked up by Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , prime movers in the effort to meet the threat to Unix — and OS/2 for that matter — posed by Microsoft Corp 's forthcoming Windows NT operating system , and probably two of the firms with potentially the most to lose . |
| 9 | COSE , it has emerged , is part of a much wider recipe that was originally cooked up by Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , prime movers in the effort to meet the threat of Microsoft Corp Windows NT , and probably two of the firms with potentially the most to lose . |
| 10 | When studied by Davis in the mid-1960s it was undergoing a transition from a relatively self-contained peasant society to one forming part of a much wider market economy . |
| 11 | This is part of a much wider pattern of contradictions in white attitudes . |
| 12 | The decision is part of a much wider shift in government thinking , in which Mr Patten has clearly been given Cabinet permission to distance his own policy from that of predecessors , such as Michael Heseltine , and , to a lesser extent , Mr Ridley , now Trade and Industry Secretary , who believed that economic success depended on getting the planner off the backs of business and citizen alike . |
| 13 | This work holds out the promise of a much wider project : |
| 14 | That is a substantial record of success in support of a much wider strategy of developing primary care as an essential part of modern health care delivery . |
| 15 | But a car factory is not an independent unit : it is part of a much wider network of manufacturers , deliverers , suppliers and designers . |
| 16 | If the survey is properly conducted , the results are reliable , and representative of a much wider population than that directly investigated . |
| 17 | These types of music also have the advantage of a much wider appeal than jazz , a mainly middle-aged , middle-class interest . |
| 18 | Tax reform has a crucial part to play in springing the underclass from welfare dependency , as well as building up support for such a programme amongst a much wider group of the electorate . |
| 19 | D J Taylor — who had a heated exchange with Lawrence Norfolk , a BOYB author who was in the audience — captured the mood of the debate : ‘ I think the real importance of the promotion lies in the fact that it draws people 's attention to British fiction , and provides the backdrop for a much wider discussion about the relative decline of the English novel since the Second World War . ’ |
| 20 | The advent of GCSE and the more widespread development of continuous assessment of coursework in all English examination syllabuses have provided opportunities for pupils in secondary schools to use writing for a much wider range of purposes and audiences . |
| 21 | Her new role may , in fact , call for a much wider range of skills , both mental and physical , than did her previous one ; but however well she develops them , they will go largely unnoticed by society . |
| 22 | We want young people to write for a much wider range of purposes and audiences . |
| 23 | But as well as having a novel structure , the theory has an explanatory power quite unlike that of classical economics : for while the latter attempted to explain economic systems as a response to individual needs , Marx accounted for a much wider range of social phenomena in terms of the part they played in a totality . |
| 24 | However , the Committee did emphasize the need for a much wider range of accommodation than had been provided before the war , and so they were drawn into the sharp debate about densities and preferences as between flats and houses — and this is where the link with the Ministry of Town and Country Planning proved so important . |
| 25 | ABWOR would only be highly significant if it were to be used for a much wider range of proceedings , especially those for which legal aid is not available . |
| 26 | While this reform is specifically designed to prevent many of today 's disgruntled education consumers joining the ranks of tomorrow 's underclass , it will of course have implications for a much wider group of young people , whose talents and needs have been all too little met by the emphasis on the reorganization of secondary education to the exclusion of all other considerations . |
| 27 | When we come to civil society , though , the possibilities for a much wider group of people are rather different . |
| 28 | Experience in the past two and a half years has shown both the general effectiveness of such schemes and the need for a much wider extension of them . |
| 29 | Looking at maths as a much wider subject , as a subject perhaps for research and for exploration , have there been any very obvious trends in mathematics in recent years which could be described ? |
| 30 | In contrast , men are spread through a much wider range of occupations . |