Example sentences of "have [verb] a particular " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Why , ’ said Flora , in the dead and hopeless tone of one who has uttered a particular , heartfelt question over and over , to no avail , ‘ why does school have to be so horrible ? ’
2 Each member state has designated a particular body to take responsibility for the comparability work .
3 The first is where the Act is silent or ambiguous on any given point and the second is where the court in a decided case has given a particular interpretation to a section of the Act ( or to the same section in the original Act of 1893 ) .
4 Selby has has a particular problem , its its economy is narrowly focused , it suffers high unemployment .
5 There is also some evidence that Mrs Thatcher has attracted a particular electoral constituency .
6 I am indebted to John Tomlinson of The Helios Homœopathic Pharmacy in Tunbridge Wells who has made a particular study of the Organon 's instructions on preparation and administration of LM 's and whose advice enabled the inclusion of the final section entitled Variable Factors .
7 It is always so annoying when one has made a particular effort to check a point and something still goes wrong .
8 Who has made a particular study of teams and their development .
9 The medal is traditionally presented at the end of the city 's annual Science Festival to a scientist who has made a particular contribution to science and society .
10 Likewise , if past convention has made a particular layout familiar ( such as time increasing downwards or from left to right ) , a change should be considered only if a clear advantage is to be gained .
11 This tension , he continues , ‘ has imposed a particular ambivalence upon all the institutions of a modern state and a specific ambiguity upon its vocabulary of discourse : the muddle in which we now live where ‘ law ’ , ‘ ruling ’ , ‘ politics ’ , etc. , each have two discrepant meanings ' .
12 What are we to do , he asked , when the local political assembly has approved a particular investment ?
13 Once someone has used a particular credit type , they are very likely to buy other things in the same way .
14 In order to breathe during this operation , the young waxbill has to adopt a particular posture ; young whydahs and indigo birds adopt this too .
15 The development of the market for eurodollar bonds with equity warrants attached has proved a particular spur to activity in London recently , while the rapidly growing swaps market , the outstanding value of which was $1,500 billion at end-1989 , is located principally in London and New York .
16 If nature has endowed a particular market participant with all the current endowment of a certain resource , he is in the fortunate position of being a monopolist resource owner .
17 The Countryside Commission has taken a particular interest in these areas with the aim of promoting environmental improvement through Groundwork and other types of project .
18 Occasionally overlap may have the opposite effect due to the ‘ falling between two stools ’ phenomenon , two operators at the same level or at different levels may each assume that the other has taken a particular action which they both know is required .
19 Our Chairman , Richard Newcombe , who has taken a particular interest in the museum , then spoke , welcoming the guests and thanking them for their support .
20 The increase in trade in manufactured goods has taken a particular form of trade .
21 A combination of means-tested assistance being withdrawn as income rises , together with an increased tax bill , has created a particular disincentive for those of the poor who try and improve their own position by personal effort and initiative .
22 Since it is the consistent policy of successive UK governments to support ICAO , and ICAO has advocated a particular way in which aircraft accident reports should be written , it seems obvious that the appropriate regulations should require commissioners of public inquiries to follow the practice that is universally acknowledged as sound and practical .
23 Ministers who might have resented a particular proposal were seen by Mr Major privately before the relevant meeting and ‘ squared ’ .
24 The deceased was brought in by Anubis and , turning to each of the gods in turn , he or she denied having committed a particular sin .
25 Furthermore , to pursue this metaphor , having selected a particular spiritual decor and furnishings , those who live in it come to be influenced by its stylistic and symbolic properties as well as its more obvious functional or utilitarian appropriateness .
26 Even where you have to answer set questions — as in an exam — a choice between alternatives usually has to be made ; and not only do you have to pick a particular question to answer , but you also have to decide exactly what it is that the question is asking you to do .
27 In the latter , pupils succeed or ‘ pass ’ if they reach certain levels of competence : they are expected to give evidence of having reached a particular level of performance regardless of how they stand in relation to their peers .
28 I would feel you do n't have to put a particular interest on
29 Jesus may not have supported a particular party line , but His criticism of the political-religious leaders of His day led to His crucifixion on a Roman gibbet .
30 Are there any rules for writing poetry in the sense that does it have to rhyme , does it have to have a rhythm , does it have to have a particular for to be recognised and accepted as a piece of poetry as opposed , perhaps , to a piece of prose ?
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