Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [art] particular time " in BNC.

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1 We can notice , too , that the deictic aspect of the definite referring expression the sun ( the definite article being a deictic term ) is contextually ambiguous — I could use it homophorically ( the sun , generally ) or deictically ( the sun at a particular time and place ) .
2 He points out first that those who are aware of the finer points of history will know that in former days ( or " the earliest days ' : the meticulous ulema were authorized to give fetvas individually according to the requirement of a particular time .
3 Without the relational property of being on the mat at a particular time the cat would not be the ontological individual it is .
4 A place could become holy through some historical event , a memory of a work of God done at the site at a particular time .
5 Dowsing depends on the interaction between the person and the site at a particular time .
6 The timing of training sessions was investigated in some depth and the importance of fitting the training to a particular time of year and to a particular size of training package at specific times of day was revealed .
7 We can delay cashing orders whenever the need arises and we have complete control over them and how much we save depending on the particular needs of the children at a particular time .
8 Because assessments of the spirit of community depend so much on highly variable subjective preferences and values , which may fluctuate according to the individual and the village concerned and even to the mood of the individual at a particular time , it is virtually impossible to generalize about whether there has or has not been a perceptible ‘ decline of community ’ in the English village .
9 Perhaps this is now an old-fashioned view ; but posterity can judge what is good music-making and what are merely the trends of a particular time .
10 This lucid and candid prose , strong in the detail of a particular time and place , often ignores , and can on occasion seem to depart from , the sense of the literature it embodies .
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