Example sentences of "a particular " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention of a Gift Aid scheme is to encourage giving without the donor being tied to a particular charity for this length of time . |
| 2 | Rather , ‘ the Museum does not intend to sponsor a particular aspect of modern art , but rather to make a report to the public by offering material for study and comparison ’ . |
| 3 | The history of forms in art has had some distinguished advocates , some of whom have been concerned with the transformation over time of one form to another ; others have been more attracted to problems of values , arguing either that styles in art change and decay , or that in a particular period there is an artistic will to produce work in a style of its own . |
| 4 | He makes a particular point of technique . |
| 5 | All the same , museum curators will have carried out a critical task in selecting the exhibition , in some instances having fended off proposals for inclusions with a political or a particular cultural bias . |
| 6 | Within a particular culture , a description can naturally go further in identifying a devout picture of a Virgin and Child , or a dancing figure with six arms as Siva . |
| 7 | This lucid and candid prose , strong in the detail of a particular time and place , often ignores , and can on occasion seem to depart from , the sense of the literature it embodies . |
| 8 | The deferred ‘ but ’ as in ‘ There again but ’ is a particular pleasure . |
| 9 | Acting ‘ exercises ’ differ from improvisation in that students work in a less open-ended way ; the aim is to follow the intentions and actions of a character in a particular scene , often quite minutely . |
| 10 | One job has led to another but I do remember a particular film audition which I walked out of , much to the concern of everyone , my agent , and the casting director . |
| 11 | Equally , a particular type of catholic identity may not belong to all but remains politically dominant for similar reasons . |
| 12 | As will be seen in the remaining chapters , a particular form of Irish catholicism known as monopoly catholicism has assisted in the concrete success of the mix of the beliefs with economic beliefs in capitalism , ownership of land , and inheritance , helping to bring the elements to an explicit formulation in the 1937 Irish constitution , which has ever since shown considerable resistance to reformulation . |
| 13 | Clearly , they can be seen to have a particular self-concept , a sense of what Weber termed social honour ( Wallis , Bruce , and Taylor 1986 ) . |
| 14 | However , it was not simply a strategy , but embodied a particular ideology : the belief that the bishops were the church above all , and that they , not the laity , were the ones to communicate with the state . |
| 15 | However , it is the further legitimation given to a particular socio-ethical form of political religion in the constitution and to the implied authority of religious intellectuals in deciding in concreto what must be taken by the state as in the interests of the common good which gives to conflict in Ireland between the two alliances its political religious dimension in the sphere of law . |
| 16 | I 'm known for a particular dish : snails with nettle sauce . |
| 17 | Any sudden increase in the number of a particular pest , however , need immediate action . |
| 18 | Others need precise daily rations of sunlight that change with the seasons if they are to start flowering at a particular time . |
| 19 | I think that the instructor should treat the first flight on a particular glider as if it was the first flight of the day , and on subsequent flights he should just check for full and free movement and that the surfaces are moving fully . |
| 20 | If you are out of practice , make a particular point of watching for cross wind effects on take-off and landing . |
| 21 | Make a particular note of anything which is different from the aircraft you normally fly . |
| 22 | Before choosing a GP , think about your needs and the services that a particular surgery offers . |
| 23 | The conference was also told that as an alternative to the expense of sending officers to university , it was proposed to ‘ direct officers to research a particular problem … and give them a short period to carry out intensive research ’ . |
| 24 | For , as Gramsci pointed out in respect of those institutions of the establishment , ‘ hegemony … is not universal and ‘ given ’ to the continuing rule of a particular class . |
| 25 | Obviously you can not know in advance which type of mat will be used at a particular tournament , so you should do your final training on any type of mat , just to get used to the feel , and then try to use any free time you may have on the actual competition areas to get a little practice in beforehand . |
| 26 | Normally organisers will allow you to re-weigh on another set of scales if you believe that a particular set is reading heavy . |
| 27 | In some cases the disqualification is not only from a particular event within a tournament , but from the whole tournament . |
| 28 | Look at a particular point on the wall in front of you and try to relax . |
| 29 | ‘ The opponent block ’ applies to elite performers who , in the past , have repeatedly drawn and lost to a particular opponent . |
| 30 | There are occasions during which you turn away from the opponent , but these are deliberate and short-lived , leading in to a particular technique . |