Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] a wide " in BNC.

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1 In particular , life events of certain kinds have been implicated in a wide range of disorder , and some of the evidence to establish their role has been described in earlier chapters .
2 Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper .
3 The material of the bags had been destroyed in the fire and most of the burned contents of the hold had been dispersed over a wide area .
4 The homogeneity of the three groups has been reported for a wide variety of preoperative variables including age , sex , type of fluid , allergy , seasonal variation , radiographic determination of the size of the adenoids and postnasal space , and duration of preoperative loss of hearing .
5 Guinness has been targeted at a wider audience , in particular the more individualistic drinker , a position which is supported by innovative advertising around the world .
6 They may have been written with a wider audience in mind and are therefore easier to read than , for example , some of the accounting standards .
7 They are there to see in various books that have been published ; I suppose it is sad that they have n't been seen by a wider opera-going public .
8 It may be obvious , as with lead shot from shooting or fishing producing elevated levels of Pb +&plus Sn +&plus Sb , batteries ( Pb +&plus Sb ) and brass ( Cu +&plus Zn ) but sometimes it may be more subtle where agricultural chemicals ( for example U in phosphates ) have been used on a wide scale .
9 But few dogs make better companions than a well trained Shepherd , and they have been used for a wide variety of tasks , aside from their traditional role of protecting flocks of sheep .
10 It has been used for a wide variety of projects so far .
11 The embedded figures test , which highlights these factors , has been used in a wide range of cross-cultural situations to support research work , and broadly differentiates types of perception arising within different cultures .
12 This replaced section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 which had long been the main public order offence and which had been used in a wide range of situations including demonstrations , football hooliganism , " streaking " and industrial disputes .
13 For example the sport of crown green bowling , which was very little known outside of the north of England , has been shown to a wider public ; the greens are often oddly bereft of spectators , and the northern accents of the players are plainly audible as they urge on their woods or confer solemnly as a pair over the last bowl of an important ‘ end ’ .
14 Those applications have now disappeared but have been replaced by a wide range of others which utilize the material 's excellent weatherability , clarity and surface hardness — for example , automotive rear lights , lighting fittings and drawing instruments , produced by injection moulding ; and sheet and profiles , mainly for the sign , lighting and building industries , produced by extrusion .
15 As a result of its efforts , the history of art and design has been augmented by a wider range of what many would regard as more relevant options such as the History of industrial Design for would-be industrial designers .
16 Very rarely has such experience been shared amongst a wider group of community partners .
17 We are persuaded to think that some of these qualities must also have been shared by a wider spectrum of staff .
18 If a large number of As have been observed under a wide variety of conditions , and if all those observed As without exception possessed the property B , then all As have the property B.
19 My rendering of the principle of induction reads : ‘ If a large number of A s have been observed under a wide variety of conditions , and if all those observed A s without exception have possessed the property B , then all A s possess the property B ’ .
20 If this modified version of induction is adopted , then the principle of induction will be replaced by a probabilistic version that will read something like , ‘ If a large number of A s have been observed under a wide variety of conditions , and if all these observed A s without exception have possessed the property B , then all A s probably possess the property B ’ .
21 That encouraging development has been assisted by a wide range of measures undertaken by the Government .
22 It derives from the author 's experience of working for the Agricultural Training Board in an area in the North of Scotland where family and part-time farmers predominate but has been put on a wider footing by detailed investigations of attitudes and needs in eleven counties in England , Wales and Scotland , and by less detailed investigations during visits to Norway , the Federal Republic of Germany and France .
23 With both Cardiff and Newport dormant in recent years , other clubs have benefited from the movement of players ; talent has been spread over a wider area .
24 The main tools of AI have been borrowed from a wide range of disciplines including linguistics , mathematics , psychology and cybernetics .
25 Restrictions on advertising and fees have been relaxed over a wider front .
26 Following a meeting with Collor on Aug. 26 , the 27 state governors acknowledged the need for amendments but refused to endorse the changes as proposed until they had been subjected to a wider debate .
27 Now the way has been cleared for a wider approach , through the use of software recommended as a common Group standard .
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 The use of high dose ascorbic acid ( vitamin C ) has been advocated for a wide range of ailments for years .
30 Research on the influence of cultural factors on intelligence testing and test results have been conducted on a wide scale and the results are endlessly discussed because of the inextricable mixture of technical and value judgments .
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