Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [that] a particular [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Even if translucency and opacity can be satisfactorily distinguished , it is not necessarily the case that a particular expression can be unambiguously characterised as one or the other .
2 The decision that a particular intervention is not clinically indicated may conceal two quite different ethical assumptions .
3 Statements to the effect that a particular programme has had an increase in funding do not say anything about the quality of the service offered .
4 If the price has been fixed on the basis that a particular fact is correct , the acquirer will agree that the risk of it not being so , even if no one could have known , should fall on the seller , since the seller will have been paid a price which assumed that the warranty was correct ; although no doubt the seller will point out that the business is being bought as a going concern and a business can not be carried on without risk .
5 I would say that it 's germane to this exercise again in so far as it might lead to the conclusion that a particular sector is impracticable .
6 Not least among the ‘ incidental ’ factors was the probability that a particular treatment might be so disagreeable that it was abandoned , or not used often enough .
7 We can indeed simply say that the statement that a particular rule is valid means that it satisfies all the criteria provided by the rule of recognition …
8 Most instruments are subject to negative procedure which means that they will be operative unless within forty days a ‘ prayer ’ is passed which requests the Crown that a particular instrument be dropped .
9 But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ?
10 The absence of a Committee on a particular subject ( for example , agriculture or poverty ) does not mean that the Government do not attach importance to it ; and the fact that a particular Minister is not on a Committee does not mean that he does not attend when his interests are affected .
11 The fact that a particular publication does not offer these types of promotion on a regular basis does not mean that it will not be interested in discussing a bright idea .
12 ‘ If , therefore , for any unhappy reason , counsel for the defence is unable to accept the assumption which stems from the fact that a particular statement has not been made available to him by the prosecution , it would become counsel 's duty to invite the judge to exercise the discretionary power which is given to him by the proviso to section 18 of the Evidence Law , ( c. 118 [ J. ] ) , by examining the statement himself and directing that it be used in such manner as the justice of the case demands .
13 The solution lies in removing from the fourth head the bulk of cases which are charitable in spite of the fact that a particular group is primarily benefited , namely gifts in relief of distress , and thereby making possible a more limited definition of the general sections which can be regarded as benefiting the community and a more sweeping rejection of gifts which though benefiting the community do not do so directly .
14 The fact that a particular sort of rationality is of our very essence explains why rational thinking can lead us to ethical self control .
15 This user receives information from LIFESPAN , but only enters into LIFESPAN the fact that a particular quality check has passed , or failed .
16 This user receives information from LIFESPAN , but only enters into LIFESPAN the fact that a particular quality check has passed , or failed .
17 The important distinguishing feature between applications in these different product categories is the value that a particular system can offer , both to customers and retailers .
18 Having decided upon a recommendation that a particular church should be declared redundant , the Pastoral Committee sends the papers relating to the proposal to the bishop of that diocese .
19 The decision by a court that a particular situation was not intended to come within the ambit of a statute , though within its words in what may be their most obvious meaning , does not deny the supremacy of Parliament , for if Parliament disagrees with the decision it can pass another Act dealing specifically with the type of case .
20 The desire to travel — especially among the young and the well-educated — depends not only on the existence of a few Great Sights , but also on scenic variety , a sense that a particular place is different and , above all , old .
21 It may be a clause that a particular tenant may prefer to delete unless other factors necessitate its inclusion .
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