Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] a particular [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the judges , Lord Chief Justice Lawton , then inquired whether this meant that the Attorney General was entitled to consider the political trouble which would be caused by a decision to enforce a particular law . |
| 2 | They are usually " top down " decisions taken by nurses at district or unit level which , in terms of the workforce , may be about deciding how many nurses it is possible to " squeeze out of a budget or how to negotiate around a budget to obtain a particular number of nurses . |
| 3 | We will discuss how the model works by considering how one might go about producing a sentence to describe a particular event , the event taking place in Figure 14 . |
| 4 | The way a scientist views a particular aspect of the world will be guided by a paradigm in which he is working . |
| 5 | ‘ But he has a system now whereby he selects a side to suit a particular game . |
| 6 | Any elicitation procedure is itself subject to a degree of variation in terms of how successfully it stimulates a child to make a particular response . |
| 7 | As has been implied , the motivation of the regionalist novelists was often extra-literary , the novel being used as a vehicle to draw a particular situation to the eyes of the world , to influence public opinion and , thereby , to bring about social change . |
| 8 | Basically what we 're doing is to count during training how often a sub-pattern a tuple has a particular state has a particular pattern . |
| 9 | Thus , for instance , if a business has a particular customer with whom it will do a lot of business , it might be appropriate to negotiate special terms for all contracts between the business and that customer . |
| 10 | For example , if a package contains a particular module , regardless of version , then its manager is informed of all SPRs and SSRs which are submitted and which reference the module . |
| 11 | As we saw in Chapter III , that a person does a particular job , lives in a particular town or is a vegetarian is usually regarded as a contingent fact about them . |
| 12 | If we know a water has a particular site of , of origin then we can often use minor trace constituents as a marker of that water to follow its fate and its path through the ocean , okay ? |
| 13 | A head develops a particular structure in the light of the decisions which have to be made and the people he/she believes should be involved in making them . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , in some cases at least , an argument from lack of expertise might well support a refusal by a court to hear a particular dispute . |
| 15 | Teaching a creature to perform a particular sequence of actions similar to human behaviour does not imply that its mind is then working like that of humans . |
| 16 | ‘ Consumers do not confuse the availability of good physical facilities with good quality ; such facilities may tempt a consumer to choose a particular shop , but it is the quality of the staff which will determine whether the consumer will buy or return a second time . ’ |
| 17 | In other words , only when speaker 1 had heard speaker 2 pronounce a variable using a particular variant , would speaker 1 know that speaker 2 favoured that particular variant . |
| 18 | Note that there is no significant relationship between whether a subject recalled a particular junction and whether they had known it previously , r(phi)=0.022 , df=1064 . |
| 19 | To say that a man frequents a particular address has no defamatory meaning to ordinary readers — unless they know that the address is a brothel . |
| 20 | This is what seems to have happened in the late Victorian music hall , when a style evoking a particular class subject — the ‘ remade ’ working class described by the historian Gareth Stedman Jones ( 1974 ) — is crossed with political elements — the ideology of imperialism — resulting in a relatively unified mode of ‘ popular imperialism ’ within this song category . |
| 21 | When children are encouraged to thread beads on a lace to match a particular pattern and then repeat it to the end of the lace , there is development of the idea of sequence . |
| 22 | I find it difficult to conceive of a situation where it would be a proper exercise of the jurisdiction to make an order positively requiring a doctor to adopt a particular course of treatment in relation to a child , unless the doctor himself or herself were asking the court to make such an order . |
| 23 | A researcher reports a particular result , and to verify it other scientists repeat the same experiment in their own labs . |
| 24 | ‘ Purposive sampling ’ occurs when a researcher chooses a particular group or place to study because it is known to be of the type that is wanted . |
| 25 | What the outside world sees as a minister promoting a particular project is probably the end of a long process in which different groups of civil servants within the department have argued about the case for that venture as opposed to other ventures . |
| 26 | The picture in our feature was supplied to us by a manufacturer to illustrate a particular cot set and was not intended as a recommendation of how to put a baby down to sleep . |
| 27 | Of course , it was perfectly possible for a nurse to undertake a particular task for all clients and not be competent , with possibly disastrous consequences . |
| 28 | Moreover , Hahnemann discovered that if a patient needed a particular remedy he or she tended to be very sensitive to it — much more so than someone for whom it was not indicated . |
| 29 | Skill implies idiosyncratic performance and as such can transfer between many tasks whereas a task meets a particular requirement within a system activity . |