Example sentences of "in a wide " in BNC.
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| 1 | The detritus had stuck to the pitted surface in a wide streaky band as it slid lumpily from chest height to the floor . |
| 2 | The two will develop and market pen and display-(PAD) based solutions to users in a wide range of commercial markets , including retailing and merchandising . |
| 3 | You notice that the opponent is standing in a wide stance , so you throw a powerful reverse punch at his face . |
| 4 | Next , you spin on your front foot , sweeping the rear leg around in a wide arc that intersects the back of the opponent 's supporting leg . |
| 5 | Leonard was full-blooded , physically and temperamentally , and these teenage years saw him active in a wide range of sporting interests : cycling ( one of his favourite pastimes then ) , skiing , swimming , canoeing , sailing and ice-hockey ( in which he made the school team ) , boxing and wrestling , though he was very little involved in the last two . |
| 6 | To finish off , there 's a small and neat Spectra sling in a wide eye designed to allow easy movement of the sling and reduce walking . |
| 7 | Available in a wide range of colours . |
| 8 | TETROSYL Textratex exterior wall paint , available in a wide choice of colours and white , with either a smooth or sand-textured finish — the textured finish will cover hairline cracks . |
| 9 | This is Weathershield , from Dulux , available in a wide choice of colours |
| 10 | He indicated who he was talking about by drawing his arm in a wide sweep around the orchard . |
| 11 | He found the experience of working in a wide variety of company departments invaluable and believes it held him in good stead when he reached the higher echelons of management . |
| 12 | Forty years later , after an enormously varied industrial career that has seen Haslam running a diverse range of businesses and involved in a wide variety of functions , from selling to personnel , events have turned full circle . |
| 13 | In a wide band of west Africa , from Dakar to Kano including the ‘ sahelian ’ and ‘ sudanian ’ zones , the total population in 1980 was about 30 million at an average of 17 people per square kilometre . |
| 14 | She is lying , like myself , in a wide bed . |
| 15 | Dot was in a wide high bed with white sheets , two pillows , two blankets and an eiderdown . |
| 16 | He was still trying to identify it when he suddenly felt himself scooped from the ground and hoisted into the air in a wide arc . |
| 17 | Gladiolus primulinus is tall-growing with hooded flowers in a wide range of colours . |
| 18 | By the end of the century Nonconformity 's most famous ministers had established themselves as leaders in a wide variety of fields : biblical scholarship , local government , reform movements , journalism , history , theology , apologetics and writing . |
| 19 | FOR 40 years , I have been dealing in a wide variety of paintings ranging from Old Masters to French Impressionists , Dutch Romantics to modern British pictures . |
| 20 | The denim collection , offered in a wide range of single block colours from anthracite to blush pink , is short , sassy and young . |
| 21 | The 100lb Semtex bomb shattered glass in a wide area , most notably in the 23-storey Commercial Union Building , which lost all its windows , and NatWest tower , where more than 200 were smashed . |
| 22 | He boldly asserted that while courses with these characteristics remained goals to be aimed for , there was genuine value in shorter courses for people of all backgrounds in a wide range of subjects — and that in offering such courses the WEA was furthering the spread of an educated democracy . |
| 23 | ‘ Alcohol ’ , the White Paper states , ‘ is implicated in a wide variety of crimes , drunken driving , offences of public disorder and domestic violence ’ ( p. 21 , para. 4. 14 ) . |
| 24 | It has now been confirmed , however , that Bt is a ubiquitous soil microorganism and that highly active strains of Bt can be found in a wide variety of environmental samples . |
| 25 | The company is involved in a wide range of organic chemistry . |
| 26 | Their production staff is experienced in a wide variety of techniques including but not limited to ; acylation , alkylation , amination , bioconversion chlorosulfonation , condensation , conjugation , dehydration , diazotisation , esterification , Grignard methods , halogenation , hydroboration , hydrogenation , oxidation , peptide synthesis , phosgenation , quaternisation , reduction , saponification and sulfonation . |
| 27 | While Fullan writes in a wide educational context , his work can be applied directly to the initiatives now underway in the UK : |
| 28 | The professional 's tendency to resist bureaucratic control has been studied in a wide range of occupations by writers such as Drucker , Kornhauser , Wardell , Abrahamson among others , and the congruence of their findings must be accepted here ( Hughes 1980 ) . |
| 29 | Set in a wide , sunny valley close to the borders of Austria and Germany , Lermoos is a pretty , and unspoilt resort offering glorious views towards the Zugspitze , which is Germany 's highest mountain . |
| 30 | As The Economist put it in a wide ranging analysis : ‘ European business needs more competition , not less ’ . |