Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] a particular [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dividends can be used to influence the class of shareholder attracted to a particular firm . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | In this respect , voluntary codes of practice applied in a particular trade are highly relevant . |
| 7 | For example , a teacher may wish to have a list of books used in a particular project . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The type of industry concentrated in a particular region affected the development of towns and cities in that area . |
| 11 | Consumers can not individually discover the safety risks associated with a particular good . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Most , perhaps all , functionalists are thorough-going materialists who believe that mental phenomena are genuine physical phenomena seen at a particular level of abstraction . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The range of colours and tones used in a particular rug or group of rugs ( e.g. , a pastel or autumnal palette ) . |
| 22 | The wound strings vary in tension from make to make , according to the diameter of the inner core used for a particular string gauge . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Discipleship is far more than initiation into a particular congregation or even accepting the terms of membership prescribed by a particular denomination . |
| 29 | Similarly a group of retailers located in a particular shopping centre may combine forces to advertise that centre as a whole . |
| 30 | In a population confined to a particular habitat competition for limited resources is an inevitable feature of life so long as reproduction occurs . |