Example sentences of "to 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 | 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 | ‘ The opponent block ’ applies to elite performers who , in the past , have repeatedly drawn and lost to a particular opponent . |
| 4 | There are occasions during which you turn away from the opponent , but these are deliberate and short-lived , leading in to a particular technique . |
| 5 | Suppose a subject is listening to different sequences of sounds played independently to each ear through a pair of headphones in order to pick out and respond to a particular target sound . |
| 6 | Out of the thirteen which still had a formal Railfreight allocation in 1989 , many had become specialised bases for traction belonging to a particular sub-sector . |
| 7 | It is useful for would-be choreographers to study the historical development of classical style so that they may stage a ballet in a traditional way when it has a story firmly linked to a particular time and place . |
| 8 | However despite the great variety of demi-caractère ballets staged since 1789 there appear to be only three main sources of gesture which contribute to a particular style for a particular ballet . |
| 9 | Culture influences almost every aspect of the reaction to a particular product — texture , colour , desire for innovation or respect for tradition and so on . |
| 10 | It may or may not be true that positive control of development , the compelling of development to conform to a particular plan determined by the state , is unattainable without nationalisation . |
| 11 | That he thought this possible is suggested by his comments on Frazer whom he saw not as an investigator of a remote and hence irrelevant past , but as someone whose researches are like Freud 's , of apparently universal application , applying not to a particular historical period but to ‘ the soul ’ . |
| 12 | Vickery overemphasizes vegetation references by relating the ‘ temperate valley … smelling of vegetation ’ with its ‘ running stream ’ to a particular scene in The Golden Bough , and by insisting that the ‘ water-mill ’ is that ‘ in which Tammuz was ground ’ and thus functions as ‘ a reminder that death is the price of rebirth ’ . |
| 13 | Each group was dedicated to a particular cowboy , be it Red Rider , Tom Mix or Randolph Scott . |
| 14 | In acquiring one 's conception of the world one always belongs to a particular grouping which is that of all the social elements which share the same mode of thinking and acting … . |
| 15 | ‘ There is a lot of common ground — the same causes for companies and organisations encountering difficulties , but of course the solutions have to be tailor-made to a particular industry or company culture. , A sound organisation structure helps to overcome many operational problems , in Cuckney 's view . |
| 16 | Short-term changes in the volume of flows to a particular country can ruin the effectiveness of a particular programme or project . |
| 17 | By doing this Marx committed , it not himself , at least Engels and many Marxists , to a particular view of the evolution of kinship which was disastrously wrong . |
| 18 | These two institutions have a history , and they are therefore specific to a particular time and type of society and , as time passes and society goes on changing , as it always has , these institutions will change . |
| 19 | This article comes out of the familiar experience of being drawn to a particular image , or set of images , without at first knowing why , and the attempt to account for this feeling . |
| 20 | During the 1890s the FA left wages to the discretion of individual clubs , but there were complaints that top players were able to use this freedom to extract large sums from the directors despite their contractual bondage to a particular club . |
| 21 | Individuals will also vary in the importance they attach to a particular time-cue . |
| 22 | Although the returns accruing to a particular film from the Eady Levy , as it was called , were limited both by the size of the box office in any particular year , and that film 's success in the market-place ( the levy was paid out in proportion to a film 's success ) , the promise it offered did make it easier for independents to raise cash . |
| 23 | It is only when the husband , by meeting the liabilities which his wife has incurred ( whether for necessaries or not ) to a particular tradesman , has ‘ held her out ’ as his agent , that the tradesman is entitled to hold the husband liable until he has received notice to the contrary . |
| 24 | by the marriage of the testator , unless it appears from the will that at the time it was made the testator was expecting to be married to a particular person , and that he intended that the will ( or a particular disposition in the will ) should not be revoked by that marriage , and that marriage takes place . |
| 25 | The teacher 's ruler would point first to a pupil and then to a particular feature on the map . |
| 26 | When Boniface was consecrated bishop by Pope Gregory II in 722 , it was not to a particular see , but to a very wide commission of preaching to heathens , such as , for instance , the Aquitanian St Amand had had in northern Gaul during the previous century . |
| 27 | In fact , genetical analysis of plant ‘ ecotypes ’ ( i.e. populations adapted to a particular habitat , for example growing close to the sea ) shows that sometimes rather few gene mutations can cause most of the morphological change . |
| 28 | The natural conclusion , then , is that the basic body plans of the different phyla represent structures which adapted some ancestral form to a particular way of life , and which have since been modified to serve different functions . |
| 29 | In Figure 11 I show the kind of wiring diagram that would make a single cell responsive to a particular kind of edge , with a particular orientation . |
| 30 | The fact that we can judge precisely the response to a particular ad is a slightly dangerous idea . ’ |