Example sentences of "it [verb] a particularly [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has not prevented assertions that it plays a particularly significant role in trusts . |
| 2 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 3 | A gharial crocodile ; it has a particularly prominent tip to its nose and catches fish with a sideways sweep of its slender jaws . |
| 4 | It has the Army ( active and retired ) , it has a particularly high proportion of prisoners and pensioners , and it has the Cerne Giant . |
| 5 | People bought her lunch and rang her up and sent her birthday cards ; it seemed a particularly cruel joke that one of the few people who really did dislike her should be married to her . |
| 6 | In fact I see from the note that accompanied the birthday card ( thank you ) that it seemed a particularly happy visit this time , and that you planned to come home in June ! |
| 7 | It did a particularly good job of informing people about the issues — especially if they were tabloid press readers , who could get relatively little information from the press ; and it made electors feel more warmth and commitment to the party system and party leaders generally . |
| 8 | Er , do you think it gives a particularly bad name ? |
| 9 | In Easthope 's hands it becomes a particularly malleable concept . |
| 10 | From about 1955 to 1975 it had a particularly strong hold here in the form of ‘ conceptual analysis ’ or ‘ linguistic philosophy ’ , in which it was axiomatic that any ‘ empirical ’ question was not philosophical . |
| 11 | It had a particularly strong influence amongst Labour identifiers , especially towards the end of the campaign . |
| 12 | But it had a particularly important clause in section 1 , which laid a duty upon the authorities to inform themselves of the numbers of disabled persons in their areas and to make arrangements to meet their needs . |
| 13 | It publishes a particularly useful book called Alone Again — Help for the Divorced , Separated and Bereaved , which gives practical advice and lists other support agencies . |