Example sentences of "they [prep] a particular " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the prevailing treatment of women workers defines them as a particular and different sub-group of the general category ‘ workers ’ ( this parallels the role they are assigned in the study of deviance ) . |
| 2 | First-class writers can defy this rule-of-thumb , but anyone else doing so risks alienating readers who have come to them for a particular sort of entertainment . |
| 3 | Indeed sometimes this spirit of God comes to specific people to endow them for a particular task . |
| 4 | I 've had so many conversations with people trying to convince them of a particular point , and although I find words central to my life … ‘ |
| 5 | If she had entrusted one of them with her secret thoughts , made one of them into a particular friend , it would have created immediate parochial difficulties , rifts and divisions and jealousies . |
| 6 | A simple method for remembering the names of the three areas is to associate them with a particular point of the body . |
| 7 | Progressives and reformers never captured the movies ; they merely influenced them in a particular direction , a direction that the producers would appear to be following closely whereas in fact they were really using it for their own ends . |
| 8 | This way of thinking about witchcraft and possession as manifestations of conscious and unconscious psychological states puts them in a particular light . |
| 9 | The electrons may be emitted from a hot cathode maintained at a fixed temperature and then conducted through a stable arrangement of electric and magnetic fields which imparts to them a certain amount of energy and focusses them in a particular region of space . |
| 10 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 11 | Preference dividends can be accumulated if there are not sufficient distributable profits or cash to pay them in a particular financial year whereas , as noted above , loan stock obligations are a contractual commitment and must be paid whether the offeror makes profits or not . |
| 12 | This memory draws them across several hundred miles of ocean , brings them to a particular bay and , as the scent gets stronger and stronger , up one special river and into one particular stream . |
| 13 | I wish to suggest , also , that in describing physics , for example , as a particular kind of subject , students are also saying something about themselves , as people : the qualities which attract them to a particular subject are also , to some extent , qualities which are central to their own self-image . |
| 14 | Unless we study villages , hamlets and farmsteads as dynamic , changing , developing entities , we will miss the significance of the form and function of them when we see them at a particular date . |