Example sentences of "particular [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consideration should be given to whether the internal advertising of management posts would identify those staff who were willing to be considered for a move to a particular branch at a particular time . |
| 2 | Bem and Locksley and Colten agree that sex-role inventories express ideas of gender in a particular community at a particular time , and so display built-in constraints and obsolescence ( Bell and Schaffer 1984 ) . |
| 3 | Programmes are booked in advance for a particular room at a particular time and are then " broadcast " into that room as prearranged . |
| 4 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 5 | Singular statements , unlike a second class of statements that we will meet shortly , refer to a particular occurrence or state of affairs at a particular place at a particular time . |
| 6 | Life was faster , demands changed more quickly , and people were included because they met a particular need at a particular time . |
| 7 | There remains the more fundamental question of why it should befall a particular person at a particular time and place . |
| 8 | ( The same , actually , is true of a press campaign , but there is no reason to simplify , since the appearance of an ad in a particular paper at a particular time is determined , whereas the actual TV buying pattern needs to be left flexible . ) |
| 9 | To argue over the logic or truth of an idea in absolute terms is to explore the nature of belief itself , but for an historian of ideas what is most interesting is ‘ who held a particular belief at a particular time and what needs it fulfilled for them . |
| 10 | Nevertheless there is at least one sense in which The Lord of the Rings can claim ‘ mythic ’ status , which is as ‘ a story embodying the deepest feelings of a particular society at a particular time ’ . |
| 11 | Often people become accustomed to odours especially those arising from works which have operated in a particular vicinity for a long time . |
| 12 | Plainly , there is no compelling linguistic reason why , in a particular language at a particular time , loss of a segment should be considered less beautiful or less ‘ correct ’ than its insertion . |