Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] [art] wider " in BNC.

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1 They also want the station to expand in order to be able to transmit programmes to a wider area .
2 SCOTVEC has also been working on a catalogue of extra additional assessments for the first phase of general SVQs , in order to provide candidates with a wider choice of assessments .
3 It would be possible to absorb provocation into a wider notion of ‘ extreme emotional disturbance ’ , as the American Model Penal Code does , so that the key to mitigation would be the extent of the defendant 's psychological disturbance at the time of the killing rather than the reasons for it .
4 ( c ) All children and young persons Local authorities are given a power but not a duty to provide accommodation to a wider group of children and young persons on welfare grounds .
5 In contrast it was the British , not the Americans , who were the first to express alarm at the wider implications of the communist challenge in French Indo-China .
6 These articles are written primarily to discuss the mathematical education of young children , but it is necessary , firstly , to see education in a wider social context .
7 For them , the main explanation of national policy — at least in its centralization phrase — was that it was designed to undermine resistance to the wider political strategies of the Conservative government .
8 Schools can make use of video or educational broadcasts , to extend study to the wider world .
9 There was a belief in government 's ability to modify the injustices of the private market and to extend powers to the wider public .
10 There would be dangers in making the enjoyment of the entitlements of citizenship conditional on the performance of the legal or moral duties of citizenship , especially the ‘ voluntary obligations ’ of service to the community , since these entitlements are , it is suggested , too important to be ‘ bought ’ by community service and forfeit for lack of the required track record of active citizenship ; also , it would be unduly intrusive to place these burdens on citizens who should be entitled to a private life , and many of whom — women with young children or dependent relatives to care for , for example — do not have the time or resources to do service to the wider community .
11 Their job , according to official sources of advice , is to present and to take account of the wider national purposes for which the parks have been designated .
12 It is now recognised that the costing of community-based care to take account of the wider back-up services on which it must depend is a complicated calculation which was not available with any degree of sophistication at the height of the movement away from institutional care ( Knapp , 1986 ) .
13 As exchanges assume a more formal role , and seek new means to distinguish themselves from off-exchange business , they increasingly have to take note of a wider spectrum of interests , including off-exchange traders , customers , financiers , and the public interest itself .
14 It is within this group that he comes to establish both personal social bonds within his particular sub-group , but also comes to feel part of a wider social collective , as witnessed by the ‘ we 're all in it together ’ type of accounts given by members .
15 Some general stimuli seem to have been the persistence of higher birth rates in rural areas ( which meant pressure on land ) , the attractions of city life , better public transport , which made it easier for cities to recruit labour from a wider area , and , above all , the creation of employment as industry grew up near supplies of raw materials and important transport centres .
16 This could be a good way to introduce Medau to a wider public .
17 There are moments when the insistence upon party is as unforgiveable as insistence upon personal things , when the difficulties which the nation has to confront call for a wider outlook and a broader union than can be found even within the limits of a single party , and when the traditions of more than one party , the ideas of more than one party need to be put into the common stock .
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