Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [v-ing] a particular [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For example , choices may be driven by a search strategy with the user seeking a particular item of information or instead may be an unstructured , browsing investigation , as much a reflection of the user 's curiosity as a desire to locate anything particular .
2 Let the observed yield from the plot receiving a particular treatment combination be denoted by the corresponding small letter(s) .
3 With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business .
4 Referring issues to the firm holding a particular position is especially popular in share valuation and other functions entrusted to the firm of auditors for the time being of the company in question .
5 But you can tell this sort of story without the detective having a particular friend in whom he confides .
6 In other words , only when speaker 1 had heard speaker 2 pronounce a variable using a particular variant , would speaker 1 know that speaker 2 favoured that particular variant .
7 This is what seems to have happened in the late Victorian music hall , when a style evoking a particular class subject — the ‘ remade ’ working class described by the historian Gareth Stedman Jones ( 1974 ) — is crossed with political elements — the ideology of imperialism — resulting in a relatively unified mode of ‘ popular imperialism ’ within this song category .
8 What the outside world sees as a minister promoting a particular project is probably the end of a long process in which different groups of civil servants within the department have argued about the case for that venture as opposed to other ventures .
9 For a molecular biologist , knowledge of a sequence means that the function of the protein specified by that sequence is known — for example the protein may form an ion channel or be an enzyme metabolizing a particular molecule .
10 Each status in society is accompanied by a number of norms which define how an individual occupying a particular status is expected to act .
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