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

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1 He suggests the construction of a continuum of categories , each with its set of conditional factors , in which the practitioner could decide upon the degree of directiveness or non-directiveness needed in a specific situation .
2 Medau Breathing Movement is an extension of the work consisting of certain positions and movements taught in a specific way to influence the flow of breathing .
3 For all its bias , such poetry written for a specific occasion has some obvious advantages as source-material .
4 Reconstruction of phylogenetic history from molecular sequence data is a probability exercise based on a specific model of genetic change .
5 A text can take on a very different character through the circumstances of its circulation : when it finds publication , who publishes it , and what were the terms of its publication — for example , in a cheap edition offering wide access or an expensive limited edition intended for a specific audience .
6 An undertaking not to compete with the business transferred for a specific period within a specific geographical area will commonly be given by the vendor to the purchaser ( see Clause 15 of the Standard Sale Agreement — Appendix III ) .
7 These evaluation studies on the use of various media have been directed towards the educational process involved in a specific learning/ teaching situation .
8 These expressions give the effect on fitness of small changes confined to a specific age , x ; they are applied to Drosophila data in Fig. 1 .
9 Each promotion was tailor made for a specific group .
10 ( The CGLI Foundation Course , aimed at those aged 16 or over and offering general education linked to a specific area of work , and the CGLI Vocational Preparation ( General ) Course , allowing students unsure of their plans to try various general areas of work , are both intended to be replaced by CPVE ; see below : Joint Board for Pre-vocational Education . )
11 Might a new microorganism released for a specific purpose such as disease control , mutate and become a threat to other plants , animals or the ecological equilibrium of the environment ?
12 This implication was later firmed up by the Sages of the Second Commonwealth to become a fully-fledged rabbinic declaration of exemption embracing nearly all of the positive commandments whose fulfilment depended upon a specific time of the day or year — an exemption which rapidly came to be viewed in terms of actual exclusion ( Kidd .
13 The discovery that suitable doses of X-rays sometimes cause a mutation , that is , a change in the property produced by a specific gene , was a valuable tool in relating the observed features of heredity to the cellular changes which control them .
14 Perhaps the greatest problem which Rheims ' work presents is its consciousness of the supposed audience , for this is photography created for a specific market , and one which takes its thrill seriously .
15 A recent survey in West Surrey and North East Hampshire asked district nurses how many clients they had with ulcerated limbs ; the number of times they visited each patient ; and the types of treatment given for a specific month .
16 The make or buy decision approach described in Chapter 7 is an example of a structure designed for a specific purpose to ensure that a series of related questions are asked and answered in the same ordered sequence by everyone .
17 a system designed for a specific user and to work as an integrated unit .
18 Any such claims submitted without a specific date of occurrence e.g. ‘ over a period of time ’ , are clear indicators of lack of maintenance .
19 It is always difficult estimating the room you will need unless you are having the greenhouse built for a specific purpose .
20 First , they help to unlock the immanent structure of the legal language spoken in a specific arena .
21 Collaboration and satisfaction regarding decisions were measured using a specially developed instrument which defined collaboration and asked a single global question about the amount of collaboration involved in a specific decision .
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