Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] a particular [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In other words , not for the first time , it was the estate policies pursued by a particular landowner which produced the northern village plans .
2 The document produces a revenue account with standard headings which it expects will be adopted by most divisions of service , although it recognizes that the detail heads adopted by a particular division will be different .
3 For example , a teacher may wish to have a list of books used in a particular project .
4 A CONCORDANCE , as we have said , is a list of all the words used by a particular author , with an indication of where those words are used .
5 The examination of all the images produced during a particular period or of a selection of images over a longer period will often provide a good idea of how the relevant state or regime wished to represent itself .
6 Consumers can not individually discover the safety risks associated with a particular good .
7 In projects designed to support small ( and larger-scale ) entrepreneurs various forms of ‘ leakage ’ are frequent : credit funds ear-marked for a particular purpose are deployed for entirely different purposes , or for the purchase of domestic assets .
8 If your library has a computerised catalogue , you may be able to get a list of all the books held on a particular subject matter .
9 Most , perhaps all , functionalists are thorough-going materialists who believe that mental phenomena are genuine physical phenomena seen at a particular level of abstraction .
10 This is the case for every class ( the term for all the contracts written on a particular share ) of option except those for Vaal Reefs , the two gilts and those on the FTSE Index .
11 The range of colours and tones used in a particular rug or group of rugs ( e.g. , a pastel or autumnal palette ) .
12 Similarly a group of retailers located in a particular shopping centre may combine forces to advertise that centre as a whole .
13 People seek the benefits that products provide , rather than the products or brands themselves Specific products or brands should therefore be differentiated by those combinations of benefits and costs sought by a particular set of potential customers .
14 In Japan each union caters for workers employed within a particular enterprise and it concludes agreements with the management of that same enterprise .
15 Revenues realized in a particular period ( measured by the selling prices of goods and services delivered to customers ) less related expenses ( measured by the cost of goods and services used ) gives a profit for the period in question .
16 In their study at Lakeshore High School in the USA they showed that the actual performance of students was interpreted by the school staff in terms of the expectations held for a particular student .
17 It is important when answering questions on relevant costing to identify all future cash flows affected by a particular decision .
18 Instead we are talking about a series of complex configurations of politics , economics and ideology that recursively interact to guarantee that it is not possible to understand what is happening in the local economies of Glasgow , Liverpool or Birmingham in the UK or Baltimore , New York or Toronto in North America without reference to inner city policies wedded to a particular form of symbolic , frequently spectacular , regeneration .
19 A dialogue which has an abnormally high number of words or structures related to a particular topic .
20 The lexicon would have to include the usual forms of abbreviations used by a particular writer .
21 The complexity of the problems encountered in a particular task , project or strategy is a function of the variables involved — their number , their clarity or ambiguity , the rate at which they change , and , overall the extent to which they are distinct or tangled .
22 Until 1940 these volumes contained the statutes passed during a particular session .
23 The latter is concerned with the duties and rights attached to a particular job title .
24 Of course , a person may limit his offer to persons qualified in a particular way , for example , members of a dub .
25 History books have their main ideas , supporting evidence and factual details arranged in a particular manner .
26 MOSFETs fabricated on a particular face of the silicon crystal structure ( the so-called ( 100 ) face ) are the best .
27 But when you keep the big names supplied with a particular kind of amusement you can always depend on it that the police are found to be in the wrong , or that they are framing an innocent man , or that the children in question are his nieces .
28 In fact , genetical analysis of plant ‘ ecotypes ’ ( i.e. populations adapted to a particular habitat , for example growing close to the sea ) shows that sometimes rather few gene mutations can cause most of the morphological change .
29 For the anharmonic oscillator , then , the vibrational energy levels associated with a particular vibration are not equally spaced .
30 The Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath 2 ( 1988 ) , pp. 281–358 ( estimation of the bronze coinage in circulation in Britain ) ; W. Esty , Numismatic Chronicle 1986 , pp. 185–215 ( how to calculate die numbers from dies observed in a particular sample ) ; M. Mate , Numismatic Chronicle 1969 , pp. 207–18 and P. Kinns , Numismatic Chronicle 1983 , pp. 1ff ( both on average output per die ) ; F. S. Weiner , The Arch of Nero in Rome ( 1985 ) and M. Price and B. Trell , Greek Coins and their Cities ( 1977 ) ( both on architectural types on coins ) ; E. T. Hall and D. M. Metcalf ( eds . ) ,
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