Example sentences of "in a particular " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And we may see another reason for the ambiguity in Leonard : Ashkenazi Jews expressed themselves in Yiddish , which was not merely their language ( resting on 16th-century Middle High German and many Slavic loan-words ) but in a particular sense a reflection of their world , their universe . |
| 4 | We have , as it were , no choice but to parse sentences in a particular way . |
| 5 | Although , as I mentioned before , rival groups of psycholinguists dispute the question of whether , when , and how the central systems exert a top-down influence upon the parsing processes , contemporary psycholinguistics proceeds on the assumption that levels of linguistic representation ( phoneme , morpheme , noun phrase , clause , etcetera ) are ‘ psychologically real ’ in the sense of referring to processes in the nervous system which take a certain time , which happen in a particular order , and which have determinate causal relations to similar processes . |
| 6 | So it is not yet possible to say with absolute certainty , using evoked potentials that are correlated with reports of conscious mental events , whether or not an individual external event has resulted in a particular mental event . |
| 7 | Consequently , mental phenomena could emerge from a physical system which does not contain neurons at all , if its physical components were arranged together in a particular way . |
| 8 | What are the signs that tell us whether or not we are making genuine progress in a particular area of study ? |
| 9 | Yet this is the firm basis from which the choreographers built their framework of steps , poses and gestures before painting in the personal touches which describe each performer as an individual with a right to speak in a particular way . |
| 10 | takes place during a particular period and in a particular environment . |
| 11 | This acceptance of the usual forms of court etiquette was first developed in a particular social environment , and it is important to comply with it if a proper atmosphere is to be established for the action which is to take place . |
| 12 | For example : each soloist need not begin with a formal bow to a king or to the audience , nor end with another bow or considered pose ; but such behaviour may be included if the choreographer wishes to locate dance in a particular century and probably a palace in which the story unfolds . |
| 13 | Twentieth-century choreographers rarely deal with fairyland ; they prefer to depict real characters living in a particular environment who have strong individual traits . |
| 14 | When this happened , however , even the traditional features became more stereotyped because choreographers used only those which the audience could easily recognise and which were commonly seen and heard in a particular country . |
| 15 | Instead , a particular style of dance is used through which the performers play strongly defined characters who express not only social status in a particular community but also moods , emotions and actions , which are alien to the calm spaciousness of classical dance . |
| 16 | Enigma Variations is a unique ballet about particular people at a particular time — and in a particular environment — the characters were even recognised by old friends ( see page 53 ) . |
| 17 | It can provide general lighting so you can move around safely and see more or less what you are doing when it 's dark outside ; task lighting when you want more concentrated light in a particular area for a particular job ( including reading ) ; mood lighting to provide different atmospheres in different rooms at different times ; and it can also be used to illuminate the outside of the home . |
| 18 | Thurley locates la nouvelle critique in a particular French intellectual tradition , which makes its uncritical adoption in the anglophone academy peculiarly problematical : |
| 19 | The more volatile the political situation in a particular state , the more difficult predicting its future actions will become . |
| 20 | Providing extra amenities in a particular home |
| 21 | By an incomes policy I take it that , for the purposes of our discussion , we mean an attempt to influence the value of money by operating directly upon specific prices ; and price of course includes earnings , i.e. the price of a quantity of labour in a particular application . |
| 22 | There is no similarity between this and international arbitration , where a state voluntarily agrees in a particular case to accept the judgment of a tribunal , as two individuals might freely agree to accept the adjudication of an arbitrator . |
| 23 | They spend seven to ten days in a particular area , seeing bands , checking out the local press and radio stations , getting contacts for future reference . |
| 24 | We try to see that conditions at work are such that if I , to make it personal , was working in a particular factory , I would find them as congenial as they could reasonably be . |
| 25 | People living in a particular society must be aware of their laws and institutions since they have to obey them . |
| 26 | If in a particular language a woman referred to a large number of men other than her husband by the same term as the one she used for her husband , this implied , for Morgan and Engels , that in an earlier stage of this system , a woman would have been wife to all of these men . |
| 27 | The advance of this critical period , however , can not easily be linked to the idea of a body clock which tends to run fast and so produce daily rhythms which are timed too early because , when daily rhythms have been investigated in these patients , it appears that daily rhythms are irregular , rather than altered in a particular direction . |
| 28 | It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’ |
| 29 | It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’ |
| 30 | There was good reason for this : when Government ministers want to test opinion in a particular sector , they normally turn to a single trade body , such as the National Farmers Union , the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , or the Retail Consortium . |