Example sentences of "on a particular " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Mike Loosley , general secretary of the Inner London Teachers ' Association - the area union branch — said yesterday : ‘ There 's no getting away from the fact that a child sent home on a particular day as a result of our action will be suffering .
3 Euromessage , which includes BT , Air Call , Radal Vodapage , Millicom , InterCity and Digital , has been awarded the UK licence to operate on a particular UHF singled out for the service .
4 Stonewalls , Judy Garland , Hair , Vietnam , the Summer of ‘ 69 — Noel Greig 's retrospective on a particular period in Gay history loosely ties together snapshot scenes from the past with episodes from the present and links the whole with a curious blend of choral music which is part protest song , part hymn .
5 Studies by McLeod , Becker , and Byrnes ( 1974 ) and Iyengar and Kinder ( 1987 ) , for example , suggest that the media set the agenda for only a part of their audience : those highly reliant on a particular news source , those low in political involvement and information , and those who are relatively inattentive to the news generally — in short , those who are marginal to politics .
6 Such factors include their own personal characteristics , their social and political background , which newspapers they read , how much television news they watched , whether they watched television news on a particular day , and even whether they watched BBC or ITV on a particular day .
7 Such factors include their own personal characteristics , their social and political background , which newspapers they read , how much television news they watched , whether they watched television news on a particular day , and even whether they watched BBC or ITV on a particular day .
8 Balancing an existing roster is of primary importance to a major company , whereas some smaller independent companies can and do concentrate on a particular sound or style of music .
9 It is more appropriate to examine the impact of aid programmes and projects in aggregate on a particular country .
10 In Asia Minor about 110 the younger Pliny , the governor of Bithynia , asked Trajan whether the profession of Christianity was in itself culpable or ‘ the vices associated with the name ’ , especially since after investigation by torture he had discovered that there were no frightful vices : the accused said their custom was to meet before dawn on a particular day to sing a hymn to Christ as a god and to take an oath ( sacramentum ) to abstain from wrongdoing .
11 This sort of information is essential to the study of individual coin losses on a particular site or sites ( see p. 49 ) .
12 Most bottom-dwelling trilobites preferred to live at a particular water depth , or on a particular type of sea bottom ( mud , sand or lime ) .
13 It is a fundamental feature of Rawls ' conception of the fairness of the original position that it should not permit the choice of principles of justice to depend on a particular conception of the good over which the parties may differ .
14 An electric shock US , for instance , is an event occurring at a particular time , with a certain duration and intensity , that impinges on a particular part of the animal , and so on .
15 While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful .
16 Yet ironically , very often the hospitals provide a density of building on a particular site that would not be permitted by planners nowadays .
17 But by focusing on a particular selection of empirical evidence , the book seems to shift the blame from the poor and the underclass to women and to their lack of available , acceptable marriage partners .
18 In his Introduction to the Paston Letters J. Gairdner pointed out that letters were often dated as being written on a particular day of the week , say Monday or Wednesday , before or after such a celebration .
19 The absence of a Committee on a particular subject ( for example , agriculture or poverty ) does not mean that the Government do not attach importance to it ; and the fact that a particular Minister is not on a Committee does not mean that he does not attend when his interests are affected .
20 Mrs Thatcher will ask a particular Cabinet colleague to prepare a paper on a particular issue just for her , not for the Cabinet or a Cabinet committee .
21 For further information on a particular company 's products , please circle the appropriate enquiry number on the reader service card .
22 Players are those whose actions have , or can have , a direct influence on a particular industry sector .
23 In addition , festivals can ensure a concentrated attack on a particular site , can stimulate local employment and help to solve local planning problems ( DoE , 1983 ; O'Connell , 1986 ) .
24 It is upon these sorts of documents that historians frequently draw , especially for the writing of very recent history ( i.e. within the past hundred years or so ) and it is commonplace to find the historian referring to ‘ other views ’ on a particular matter , as expressed by some political opponent in his memoirs .
25 In the case of Sheffield City Council v A.D.H. Demolition Ltd the Divisional court of the queens bench made it clear , for the first time in a reported case , that ‘ premises ’ within s.1(1) of the 1968 Act covered more than a building standing on a particular piece of ground , but did include a vacant site .
26 Intending to adopt a particular style on a particular occasion without realizing that intending is not the same as planning .
27 Concentrate on a particular activity or function that uses a variety of information types , but where it is considered that some improvement is needed .
28 For example , the retailer may decide not to make a profit on a particular item .
29 In addition they choose from units which permit them to study those national and regional histories of which they have some prior knowledge , as well as less familiar societies and cultures , and from units in which the emphasis is on a particular aspect of or approach to history , for example , the history of the Origins of Modern Science , of Modern Political Thought or of Mass Communication and Society .
30 In addition , students choose from other units in which the emphasis is on a particular aspect or approach to history , for example the history of the Origins of Modern Science , of Political Thought , or of Mass Communications and Society .
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