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

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1 The responsibility for preparing a particular PAR report rested with the particular department , the Treasury , the CPRS , and any other affected government departments .
2 In some situations the presenting problem may have the function of balancing a particular relationship , i.e. the ‘ well husband ’ may feel slightly inadequate but when his wife takes on the ‘ sick dependent role ’ , he starts to feel more adequate , needed and important .
3 In other words , it conducts open-market operations in the bill market with the intention of achieving a particular interest rate rather than a particular supply of liquid assets .
4 The advantage of random access files lies in the speed of accessing a particular record via the algorithm ( which will not produce files in sequential order ) .
5 That is , one explanation sees the right ear advantage to be the result of stimulating a particular ear , the other as the result of receiving sounds from a particular side of space .
6 The attribute relevance can be used to record the desirability of taking a particular route .
7 Bartlett , one of the founders of modern psychology , comments on the importance of relating a particular experience to other similar experiences :
8 He played Bobby Dupea with explosive sensitivity , as a promising musician who rejects a career to become an oil-rigger ; a rebel who , like Nicholson himself , had the chance of taking a particular course in life which would have provided him with comfort and stability , but chose a different route to that which might have been expected of him .
9 In most cases , the probability of having a particular history will cancel out with the probability of having a very slightly different history ; but in certain cases , the probabilities of neighboring histories reinforce each other .
10 Decisions on the propriety of stocking a particular publication must depend very much on his or her own judgment and good sense , rather than on waiting for legal counsel .
11 Dbits must also support standard SQL , and at the same time take advantage of the features of the chosen database , not impose their own ‘ virtual ’ database , thereby negating the purpose in running a particular type of database at all .
12 I mean we all know it , and we all know there 's a lot on this list which are most unpalatable , and they 're only there because we 've been set the task of reaching a particular sum of money , and er , if we had the choice we 'd be going in the reverse direction , and , and adding .
13 Where this is not so , individuals or groups can be given the task of reviewing a particular area .
14 In addition , a continuation task will be used as a further method of assessing what is in the mind of the reader after reading a particular text .
15 Perhaps they arise because the government does not recognize the true costs of its new policies , or perhaps because of a resistance to making a particular policy effective which comes from within the central government machine .
16 An animal might for instance prepare itself for a fight by learning a particular association between some noise and the appearance of its enemy in the near future .
17 Awards should not be automatic and follow simply as a result of doing a particular job .
18 An added complication which increases in importance from time to time , is the tendency for both ITV contractors and media buyers to negotiate ‘ share deals ’ , in which the advertiser obtains a discount for giving a particular contractor a disproportionate share of the TV budget .
19 erm A lot of people gave as a reason for getting a particular piece of furniture the fact that it was given to them by their parents when they got married , or that a neighbour was trying to get rid of it , or that somebody from work had passed it on and they needed one .
20 The point of these examples is that using Creole to refuse a request is a way of building a particular meaning into the refusal .
21 Sun flower limping , water less vase , suffering eyes , desperados in caged , so from , from that painting I had a tremendous feel of something undergoing tremendous suffering and seem very desperate about the situation , and I did n't just see that in , in the picture of Van Gogh , but I could see that in the sun flower , so as , as a writer its images like that , that I would look for and open up and turn into characters or a way of portraying a particular mood , erm , the next one , were doing very well
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