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Let \(E\) be a Banach space, \(E_0\) a subset of \(E\), \((X, d)\) a metric space and \(X_0\) a compact subset of \(X\). The paper introduces a very general scheme of approximation to the set \(BC(X, E)\) of bounded continuous functions \(F: X\to E\) by a net \((K_\alpha: \alpha\in D)\) of integral operators of the form \[ K_\alpha(F)(x)= \int_Y \chi_\alpha(x; y)F(\xi_\alpha(y))\,d\mu(y), \] where \(Y\) is a separable topological space, \(\mu\) is a Borel measure on \(Y\) and, for each \(\alpha\in D\) and \(x\in X\), the function \(\chi_\alpha(x;\cdot)\) is in \(L^1(Y,\mu)\), and \(\xi_\alpha: Y\to X\) is continuous. The net \((K_\alpha)\) is said to be an approximation process on \(BC(X, E)\) if for, every \(F\in BC(X, E)\), \[ \lim_{\alpha}\,\| K_\alpha(F)(x)- F(x)\|= 0\text{ uniformly in }x\in X_0. \] Theorems 1 and 2 are general results, they state conditions which ensure that \((K_\alpha)\) is an approximation process. Theorems 3 and 4 are Korovkin type theorems for \((K_\alpha)\). The general theorems are applied to numerous special cases -- to `interpolation type' operators and to convolution type operators. The former, which correspond to countable \(Y\), include multivariate Bernstein, Baskakov, Hermite-Fejér, and Meyer-König and Zeller type operators; the latter, realised either by \(X= Y\) of the form \(\prod^r_{i=1} [a_i, b_i]\) or by \(X= Y= \mathbb{R}^r\), include numerous operators given by classical convolution kernels. The paper is dense and interesting.