Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] a particular " in BNC.

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1 In other words , not for the first time , it was the estate policies pursued by a particular landowner which produced the northern village plans .
2 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 .
3 I was also concerned at this time that if an aircraft registered in a particular State crashed in the sea outside territorial waters , it was open to anyone to salvage it .
4 Dividends can be used to influence the class of shareholder attracted to a particular firm .
5 The document produces a revenue account with standard headings which it expects will be adopted by most divisions of service , although it recognizes that the detail heads adopted by a particular division will be different .
6 ‘ The mere fact that more than a thousand police officers know that their conduct is under investigation can , it seems to us , in no sense diminish the prejudice suffered by a particular officer against whom there was a prima facie case of the commission of a criminal offence at a very early stage of that investigation . ’
7 In this respect , voluntary codes of practice applied in a particular trade are highly relevant .
8 For example , a teacher may wish to have a list of books used in a particular project .
9 A CONCORDANCE , as we have said , is a list of all the words used by a particular author , with an indication of where those words are used .
10 The examination of all the images produced during a particular period or of a selection of images over a longer period will often provide a good idea of how the relevant state or regime wished to represent itself .
11 The type of industry concentrated in a particular region affected the development of towns and cities in that area .
12 Consumers can not individually discover the safety risks associated with a particular good .
13 In projects designed to support small ( and larger-scale ) entrepreneurs various forms of ‘ leakage ’ are frequent : credit funds ear-marked for a particular purpose are deployed for entirely different purposes , or for the purchase of domestic assets .
14 In the public sector there is likely to be decentralization , and this is discussed below ; but typically , within any government jurisdiction , there is only one department engaged in a particular activity ( e.g. , issuing automobile licences ) .
15 If your library has a computerised catalogue , you may be able to get a list of all the books held on a particular subject matter .
16 I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition .
17 In contrast , an unavoidable cost is one that is going to be incurred whether or not the decision related to a particular opportunity is accepted or rejected .
18 Most , perhaps all , functionalists are thorough-going materialists who believe that mental phenomena are genuine physical phenomena seen at a particular level of abstraction .
19 The latter would be called a subjective budget and would list items in headings such as buildings , staff , rent , rates , capitation , in terms of the total spent in each category , rather than show how part of each category related to a particular programme .
20 This is the case for every class ( the term for all the contracts written on a particular share ) of option except those for Vaal Reefs , the two gilts and those on the FTSE Index .
21 If a friend has had work done by a particular building firm and found them reliable , honest and efficient it is likely that you will too .
22 The range of colours and tones used in a particular rug or group of rugs ( e.g. , a pastel or autumnal palette ) .
23 The wound strings vary in tension from make to make , according to the diameter of the inner core used for a particular string gauge .
24 Cuvier 's system was open-ended because he considered each species to be a variation of the underlying type adapted to a particular way of life .
25 For example , the pay schedule code contains all the rates of pay and hours of work allowed for a particular grade and will therefore act as a validation check when grade , hours and pay are entered .
26 Materials and equipment kept in a particular classroom or specialist room should be clearly labelled in large print or braille ( such as labelling with Dymotape , for example ) .
27 In one of their experiments they first find the region of the visual field that causes electrical activity to be recorded through an electrode placed in a particular patch of neocortex , and then they map the receptive field for a single cell , as illustrated for a retinal ganglion cell in Figure 4 .
28 But individuals have minds of their own and can interpret the shared meaning given to a particular object such as work and can change the commonly accepted meaning .
29 Discipleship is far more than initiation into a particular congregation or even accepting the terms of membership prescribed by a particular denomination .
30 Similarly a group of retailers located in a particular shopping centre may combine forces to advertise that centre as a whole .
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