Example sentences of "[to-vb] a particular [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have I think it 's an addendum erm to rewrite a particular phrase in the statement to become he died on the cross for the sins of the world and by his resurrection as already in print . |
| 2 | Such preservation will be most likely where particular programs were run to determine the structural stability or the environmental efficiency of a building or the individual or institution commissioning the structure had been asked to accept a particular design after a ‘ virtual visit to or walk around of ’ the planned building . |
| 3 | ( a ) The speller , not sure about the way to write a particular sound , chooses a form which is wrong here but correct in a different spelling context : nessessary ( as in lesson ) hows ( house ) ( as in how ) . |
| 4 | Many uses of the software are as yet , undiscovered , because although a software package is designed for one purpose , it can be adapted to meet a particular need within a school which the software designers had not thought about . |
| 5 | He introduced himself to all the furniture , saying how nice it was to meet a particular table , or how nice the covering was on a chair . |
| 6 | Following the criticism of Frey , Regan moves to establish a particular belief , the ‘ preference-belief ’ , which he will use to prolific effect of his dog Fido 's love of bones . |
| 7 | Finally , I believe that it is less important for feminists to establish a particular set of nonsexist conventions as ‘ standard ’ than to make people aware of the non-neutrality of language . |
| 8 | What has happened in this case is symptomatic of the adversarial approach , where technical points are taken in order to secure a particular result . |
| 9 | Some actions which benefit others come from the desire just to benefit that particular person , while others flow from some more general disposition , while the desire to benefit a particular person or group may be accompanied by a variety of other desires , for instance to extract goodwill from them , or the possibility of a reward . |
| 10 | He is trying to exclude a particular approach to many central problems of philosophy . |
| 11 | However , policies of positive integration such as the CAP , which impinge upon trading relationships , can blur the CU issue and can incline us to exclude a particular class of trade . |
| 12 | Occasionally , this may be foreseen even at the start of your employment : for example , if your position is subject to funding from an outside source or if you are taken on to supervise a particular contract , as may happen in the engineering and construction fields amongst others . |
| 13 | In earlier examples , the boy trying to solve a design problem and the girl trying to spell a particular sound , the children turned to others for support because their tasks gave rise to questions which needed talking through . |
| 14 | I , I do n't believe , I do n't want to impose a particular word , and if communitarianism is a difficulty then I , I accept that . |
| 15 | As well as the books and the film , there is now a circuit of Communion meeting groups and a regular newsletter which is trying to impose a particular view on the phenomenon . |
| 16 | Most assessment procedures are developed in order to provide a particular kind of interpretation and because of this the criteria against which the child 's language will be evaluated are implicit in the procedure . |
| 17 | While some policies contain few features that their opponents can interfere with — laying down , for example , a clear duty to provide a particular service or benefit — others , such as the DHSS commitment to the development of community care for the mentally ill , depend heavily upon the commitments of implementers , and are relatively easily diverted in other directions or even rendered ineffective . |
| 18 | A simple extension is to provide a particular value of the tag field which does not specify a data format , and which always causes an error condition to be signalled whenever an operand is accessed with this value in the tag field . |
| 19 | Tells somebody how to get to particular help screens or people often have difficulty finding things on the help screens , so , some instructions for where to find a particular piece of information on the help screens can be useful . |
| 20 | To find a particular screen number use the FIND command followed by the screen number but with dashes on either side of the number — for example ‘ find -55- ’ will find screen number 55 . |
| 21 | To find a particular screen number use the FIND command followed by the screen number but with dashes on either side of the number — for example ‘ find -55- ’ will find screen number 55 . |
| 22 | To find a particular screen number use the FIND command followed by the screen number but with dashes on either side of the number — for example ‘ find -55- ’ will find screen number 55 . |
| 23 | To find a particular screen number use the FIND command followed by the screen number but with dashes on either side of the number — for example ‘ find -55- ’ will find screen number 55 . |
| 24 | To find a particular screen number use the FIND command followed by the screen number but with dashes on either side of the number — for example ‘ find -55- ’ will find screen number 55 . |
| 25 | Let us assume that you want to find a particular book and that you know the title and author . |
| 26 | It sometimes happens that you want to find a particular book but you have forgotten , or never knew , the name of the author . |
| 27 | It is not an easy task to find a particular burrow , because these wasps can nest in quite dense groups ; there might be more than twenty burrows within a circle of five yard radius . |
| 28 | Instead of going through each copy to find a particular patter ( one you are always going to knit later ) , I decided to put a sticky label on the bottom right hand corner of the front cover with details of particular patterns . |
| 29 | You can use it to find a particular place in a text if you know a word used there , or as a way of following up a particular theme , metaphor or symbol . |
| 30 | Locate books or magazines in the class or school library by using the classification system or catalogue , and use simple information-retrieval strategies when pursuing a line of enquiry , eg use ‘ search ’ reading , contents lists , indexes , to find a particular fact or piece of information . |