Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] for a particular " in BNC.

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1 When a child looks for a particular size box or a piece of material of a certain colour or texture , he is taking early steps towards sorting .
2 Students are admitted into a faculty to study for a particular degree .
3 ( 2 ) " Kitchen-sink drama " is a name used for a particular group of plays written in Britain in the late 1950s and 1960s .
4 Whether a visitor came for a particular story or whether the old woman had one in mind she wanted to relate , the preliminaries were the same : she entered into a state approaching that of a trance .
5 In order to maintain the integrity of the offlined files , each file is verified at a rate determined for a particular installation .
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