Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] a particular [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that we can judge precisely the response to a particular ad is a slightly dangerous idea . ’ |
| 2 | The attachment of a particular bank 's name to the game generates goodwill from teachers and parents — today 's customers — and helps recognition of the bank among students at an early age — tomorrow 's customers . |
| 3 | There seems indeed to be an unacknowledged weighting in the direction of a particular religion . |
| 4 | Indeed , it is likely that cross-domain recognition is constrained by the coverage of a particular dictionary . |
| 5 | These are software products in which the expertise of a particular discipline medicine , say — is encapsulated within a computer program so that non-experts can make use of it . |
| 6 | In the industrial type of society there is , according to Spencer , a tendency for central regulation and coercive control to decline and to be replaced by representative institutions and a more diffuse system of regulation ; but this view is then qualified in various ways , and Spencer finally concludes that representative government depends largely upon the existence of a particular type of economy the laissez-faire free-enterprise economy — which creates the conditions in which ‘ multitudinous objects are achieved by spontaneously evolved combinations of citizens governed representatively ’ . |
| 7 | The crazed director had vowed to eat his show if a friend ever raised the money for a particular project . |
| 8 | The court said that a failure to pay a debt was not theft and held that there was no obligation to retain and deal with the money in a particular way . |
| 9 | Therefore , he was under an obligation to deal with the money in a particular way , that obligation being constituted by the contract . |
| 10 | Photochemical effects also occur which rely on the absorption of a particular wavelength of light by Molecules containing one isotope but not by those containing other isotopes . |
| 11 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 12 | Thirdly , it will illustrate how the institutions and processes work in the case of a particular example relating to the annual financial cycle . |
| 13 | The existential proposition here merely expresses in a general form what we know to be the case in a particular instance , i.e. that the concept man does indeed have an application . |
| 14 | I argue for this in Chapter 12 concerning the possibility of participation in school worship at different levels , one level being a conscious but temporary withholding of the critical faculties in order to get on the wavelength of a particular belief . |
| 15 | The relationship between linguistic theory , the description of a particular language based upon it , and the way that language is actualized as behaviour in contexts of use is analogous to the relationship between a pedagogic theory of language learning , the devising of teaching materials based upon it , and the way that language is most effectively actualized for learning in the contexts of particular classrooms . |
| 16 | The physicist concentrates on the behaviour of certain particles , the economist on a particular type of firm , the literature student on a certain period or genre . |
| 17 | It may well be that the decision of a particular valuer appointed might fix the price and might be equally satisfactory to both : so it can hardly be said there is a difference between them . |
| 18 | Such cases illustrate the capacity of English judges prospectively to make law and reveal a sharp bifurcation between the decision in a particular case and the rule of law which it supports . |
| 19 | Even if you are certain in your mind about the usefulness/uselessness of a particular book , it is good practice to skim through the book from beginning to end . |
| 20 | Typically , discussion of lifetime income focuses on the experience of a particular generation ( an age cohort born , for example , in a certain decade ) . |
| 21 | It is apparent from these sequences that the persistence of a particular state ( F or C ) is considerable ; if one day is foggy then the next day is more likely to be foggy than clear , and vice-versa . |
| 22 | The responsibility for a particular budget should be clearly defined ; |
| 23 | One market research survey into the purchase of a particular brand of ready-mix pudding named the article and asked housewives how often they bought it . |
| 24 | They are not meant to punish the press , but when a publisher deliberately or recklessly sets out to defame another , with the object of making a profit out of that defamation ( ie by increasing circulation ) the law permits " punitive " damages to be awarded , as in Cassell & Co v Broome : David Irving wrote a book about the fate of a wartime convoy , blaming it upon the negligence of a particular captain , Broome . |
| 25 | A further complication is that the function of a particular segment may depend on just which interpretations are most likely at that point in processing rather than on the language system as a whole . |
| 26 | Dictionary publishers have limited fonts available and the same font may indicate different roles in different parts of the definitions ( human readers are easily able to use the definitional context to determine the function of a particular font change ) . |
| 27 | According to this law , if a response made in the presence of a particular stimulus is followed by a reward , that same response is more likely to be made the next time the stimulus is encountered . |
| 28 | Some people are more likely to develop these complications and can be identified by demonstrating the presence of a particular tissue-type in their body make-up . |
| 29 | The presence of a particular motive can only be inferred by working backwards from the behaviour itself . |
| 30 | Their idea is to examine the feasibility of a one-step diagnostic to indicate the presence of a particular molecule , such as might be used to test for the presence of surfactant . |