Example sentences of "ranging from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally there was a vast number of statutory authorities ranging from the Port of London Authority to the Thames Conservancy , Drainage and Hospital Boards , Gas , Electric Supply . |
| 2 | Three types of treatment are available for down-filled bags , ranging from the two-season at £17.25 to the four-season costing £31.50 . |
| 3 | The sum of £250,000 has already been allocated to a number of projects , ranging from the purchase of Porthor in North Wales to the restoration of Biddulph Grange Garden where BBC gardening expert Geoff Hamilton accepted a cheque for £20,000 in May . |
| 4 | To their shame , many tourists fired up by the prospect of making a fast rupee , dirham or peso are prepared to haggle for everything , ranging from the price of a cup of tea to an airline ticket . |
| 5 | Similarly his sermons were memorable less for their theology than for digressions ranging from the price of second-hand books to a dramatic reading from Macbeth . |
| 6 | All aspects of the CAF are covered , ranging from the fighter fleet of Mustangs , P–40s and P–38s , naval wings with Avengers , Corsairs and Wildcats , the Tora ! |
| 7 | I sent details of the Black story to key churchmen , ranging from the Archbishop of Canterbury to prominent Quakers . |
| 8 | Without getting into these deep and murky waters , let me say that problem solving uses thinking , but that solving a genuine problem usually requires some creative act , ranging from the flash of insight that illuminates the entire problem to the glimmer of light that shows a direction to pursue ( and which may be a will o' the wisp ) . |
| 9 | A separate list drawn up by the Trust includes ten other monuments by Soane , ranging from the column in the park at Lemmington Hall , Northumberland to an obelisk at Boconnoc in Cornwall . |
| 10 | In the shadow of the British Museum , this is a calming red-morocco and calf-bound haven of Victorian literature , ranging from the correspondence of Cruikshank , through railway Yellowbacks , to a section on prisons and lunatic asylums . |
| 11 | Both male and female goats may be infertile for a number of reasons , ranging from the male having painful feet to the female not ovulating at the right time . |
| 12 | The 1983/4 Time Budget Survey — the first national time use survey to be sponsored by the ESRC — has already proved to be a rich source of information and has yielded fruitful insights in a wide variety of areas , ranging from the division of labour in the home to the activities of unemployed and elderly people . |
| 13 | The summit will spend the next four days discussing issues ranging from the division of Cyprus to the war in Bosnia . |
| 14 | Australian test-tube teams have been freezing spare embryos since the programme began in 1981 — partly to avoid having to throw unwanted ones away — raising questions ranging from the ownership of the frozen embryo to who pays compensation if it is damaged . |
| 15 | Bobbing at anchor are thousands of vessels ranging from the trading ships of the merchant princes to the fanciful pleasure barges of the people of Lothern and the sleek , deadly warships of the High Elf fleet . |
| 16 | In 1985 there were over 5,500 conservation areas in England , ranging from the whole of the centres of such historic sites as Chester to small rural villages . |
| 17 | The term management information systems itself covers a wide variety of , mainly , computer developments , ranging from the installation of stand-alone microcomputers and wordprocessors , to the sophistication of the proposed computer system . |
| 18 | The French industry easily led the field with a huge panorama of most of the 100 or so films made during the year , ranging from the work of new directors ( such as Eric Rochant 's ‘ Aux yeux du monde ’ , a taut thriller about the kidnapping of a school bus ) to those little comedies and histoires d'amour , so beloved by the French , which never seem to get exported . |
| 19 | Much of this land was uninhabited , and for a variety of reasons ranging from the incidence of tsetse fly to the competing claims of different clans , farmers were reluctant to move into it . |
| 20 | MONOLAYER films — layers of material just one molecule thick — have many potential uses , ranging from the construction of synthetic biological membranes to micro-electronic applications ( see New Scientist vol 95 , p 912 ) . |
| 21 | In a separate development , reports emerged in early December that the government was exerting pressure , ranging from the threat of legal action to physical violence , on sections of the liberal English-language press . |
| 22 | While for high-income earners this welfare will cover subsidies ranging from the cost of housing , acquiring shares in the company and towards the cost of housing , the most important benefit , both in terms of the numbers of workers covered , and its value , is the occupational pension . |
| 23 | Volcanic effects have been even more sudden and disastrous , ranging from the explosion of the island of Krakatoa , between Java and Sumatra , in 1883 to the even more catastrophic eruption of Santorini ( or Thira ) in the Aegean about 1470 B.C. This eruption , or series of eruptions , which resulted in the huge collapsed caldera in the sea beside the present island , must have been the greatest catastrophe ever witnessed by man and may well have been heard as far away as Britain . |
| 24 | In aircraft ranging from the Lippisch deltas to Horten sailplanes and the more recent hang gliders , the wing profile or aerofoil is twisted from a positive angle at the centreline to negative at the wingtips . |
| 25 | Here , performance and practicality may have to take precedence , Several conventions have been created to aid readability and structure , ranging from the use of particular variable names , through the fixing of line numbers for types of routines , to the use of prepared ‘ standard ’ routines from a ‘ library ’ . |
| 26 | Al-haq has documented many instances of sexual violence ranging from the use of foul language to indecent exposure , urinating on women , molestation and rape . |
| 27 | Housing of all types has been a significant source of work for Grove in 1992 , ranging from the Housing Association project at St James ’ Hospital , London to the infrastructure at Maidenbower Village in Crawley where the design of the major relief road in the town centre is now about complete . |
| 28 | Jet-cloud interactions can generate localized H-H objects in a variety of ways , ranging from the production of internal shocks in the jet to radiation behind the shockwave systems at the front of the jet as it bores its way though the surrounding cloud . |
| 29 | He gave a stimulating programme ranging from the crystal clear Partita No 1 of Bach , through Schubert and Schumann to the 20th century Berg and Prokofiev . |
| 30 | Typically the sexual conduct of a woman is an excuse , legitimising male violence ranging from the murder of a wife to the sexual assault of a girlfriend . |