Example sentences of "[pers pn] a particular [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , if it is the first time someone tells you a particular genre of joke , you may not know the appropriate type of response .
2 But let me give you a particular tip here .
3 Bucknor later showed me a particular mark on the seam though he said the damage had been caused by general play , insisting : ‘ There was no problem , Nothing wrong had happened .
4 They may not have thought of it as expertise , but when people said to me a particular ward is dirty , I went and looked at it , and in a very short time , within about ten minutes , that ward had got a massive clean-up team in there , that 's the sort of thing that I felt was useful .
5 Young children demonstrate this : their ability to concentrate entirely on what they are doing , admittedly for short periods of time , to the exclusion of everything else , gives them a particular capacity for enjoyment .
6 In Britain the social and intellectual origins of the early surveys gave them a particular emphasis summarisable as generality and factuality .
7 Always be very aware of your childrens ' reaction when you tell them a particular babysitter is coming .
8 However , as with the similar topic of literacy , I would argue that it is important to separate out bilingualism and bilingual education because teachers ' personal experience and education gives them a particular view of the phenomenon .
9 seeing it not as a game between two teams but between his team and the opposition , a position which not only gave him a particular involvement , but also particular rights of commentary and criticism on the team , the management and the club .
10 Incidentally is it a particular day that the FFL stuff is printed in the Torygraph ?
11 These amplify the sound as well as giving it a particular quality .
12 He spoke these words in French , and it was the French , somehow , that carried with it a particular poignancy for me .
13 There is , however , something of a quantitative scale whereby the more important to us a particular belief may be , the more subtle and even ambiguous will be the evidence for it .
14 Yeah , I mean that 's not going to miss us a particular slot in the in the publication .
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