Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in a particular [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Secretary of State was thus granted a discretionary power to release a person serving a sentence of life imprisonment subject to two conditions : ( 1 ) He must be recommended so to do in a particular case by the Parole Board ( which was constituted by section 59 of the Act of 1967 ) and ( 2 ) He shall not do so except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice together with the trial judge if available .
2 If conventionalism were so single-mindedly practised in a particular jurisdiction and so often announced and confirmed by public institutions that people were thereby entitled to rely on that style of adjudication , of course it would be unfair for some judge suddenly to abandon it .
3 Compass orientation , we have seen , can account for the seasonal movements of birds and butterflies , which could find their way by just flying in a particular direction .
4 Where the ideal type of literacy is not found in a particular practice that practice is taken as an example of ‘ restricted ’ literacy .
5 They have not therefore always reached their conclusion on analytical grounds ; often these conclusions are expressive of a pragmatic desire not to intervene in a particular case .
6 The essence of both offences would be the intrinsic quality of the driving and its deviation from the proper standard , not the consequences which happen to result or happen not to result in a particular case .
7 Furthermore , the institution should be required to listen to representations from the parties as to why the presumption of the legislation should not apply in a particular case , and to evaluate these representations .
8 We have argued that such institutions should be public ( though not ruling out the possibility of a role , even an important role , for private actions , as an additional deterrent to abuses of market power ) ; that there should be a single investigating institution with powers to identify and to investigate cases , and to propose remedies , within a clearly stated framework of rules and guidelines ; that firms should be given an opportunity to make representations as to why the competition policy presumptions should not apply in a particular case ; and that there should be a competition tribunal with the task of reviewing and monitoring the recommendations of the competition policy institution .
9 Effective communication nationally was the one factor missing , German chemists were not concentrated in a particular city , unlike their French counterparts in Paris , and thus a forum was needed .
10 Evolution thus does not proceed in a particular direction but types emerge which deal most effectively with their particular environments .
11 Of course , it is not always easy to pinpoint exactly why we do or do not engage in a particular action .
12 Working class family life was subject to varying customs and conditions in different industries and to local variation in the administration of legislation ; therefore , it is best studied in a particular area , in this case , the Staffordshire Potteries .
13 Independent PR consultants usually specialise in a particular class of business , and clients can take advantage of this for ad hoc , or short-term assignments .
14 The concept of social representations is also used in a particular way , in order to suggest that social representations are only to be found in certain societies .
15 You should be aware of the peculiarities of the local weather before you make your mind up to live in a particular place .
16 Giving a person a hearing before deciding to refuse such a licence application can help to ensure that this goal is correctly applied in a particular instance .
17 That is how the subjects ' reasons figure in the justification , both when they are correctly reflected in a particular directive and when they are not .
18 Harley MS 6579 and marked by italics : Or further , in chapter forty-six , where Hilton is talking about the word " Iesu " as a means of focusing all the inheritance of life that the recluse desires , he says : These insertions do not add anything new , they simply expand in a particular way what has been said and they are not absolutely consistent in all the manuscripts in which they appear .
19 This may indicate that the brooches were consistently worn in a particular position , but not in the same way .
20 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 .
21 Sometimes it was not possible to know precisely which kind were actually included in a particular scheme .
22 Marx , in contrast , saw classes as systematically linked in a particular structure of social relationships .
23 What at first would appear to be an ideal set of models for those concerned with supporting children 's reading is soon seen as being too ‘ pat ’ — too set in a particular culture and in a particular moment of time .
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