Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] a particular [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dividends can be used to influence the class of shareholder attracted to a particular firm . |
| 2 | ‘ The mere fact that more than a thousand police officers know that their conduct is under investigation can , it seems to us , in no sense diminish the prejudice suffered by a particular officer against whom there was a prima facie case of the commission of a criminal offence at a very early stage of that investigation . ’ |
| 3 | In this respect , voluntary codes of practice applied in a particular trade are highly relevant . |
| 4 | The type of industry concentrated in a particular region affected the development of towns and cities in that area . |
| 5 | In the public sector there is likely to be decentralization , and this is discussed below ; but typically , within any government jurisdiction , there is only one department engaged in a particular activity ( e.g. , issuing automobile licences ) . |
| 6 | I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition . |
| 7 | In contrast , an unavoidable cost is one that is going to be incurred whether or not the decision related to a particular opportunity is accepted or rejected . |
| 8 | The latter would be called a subjective budget and would list items in headings such as buildings , staff , rent , rates , capitation , in terms of the total spent in each category , rather than show how part of each category related to a particular programme . |
| 9 | If a friend has had work done by a particular building firm and found them reliable , honest and efficient it is likely that you will too . |
| 10 | The wound strings vary in tension from make to make , according to the diameter of the inner core used for a particular string gauge . |
| 11 | Cuvier 's system was open-ended because he considered each species to be a variation of the underlying type adapted to a particular way of life . |
| 12 | For example , the pay schedule code contains all the rates of pay and hours of work allowed for a particular grade and will therefore act as a validation check when grade , hours and pay are entered . |
| 13 | Materials and equipment kept in a particular classroom or specialist room should be clearly labelled in large print or braille ( such as labelling with Dymotape , for example ) . |
| 14 | In one of their experiments they first find the region of the visual field that causes electrical activity to be recorded through an electrode placed in a particular patch of neocortex , and then they map the receptive field for a single cell , as illustrated for a retinal ganglion cell in Figure 4 . |
| 15 | But individuals have minds of their own and can interpret the shared meaning given to a particular object such as work and can change the commonly accepted meaning . |
| 16 | Discipleship is far more than initiation into a particular congregation or even accepting the terms of membership prescribed by a particular denomination . |
| 17 | In a population confined to a particular habitat competition for limited resources is an inevitable feature of life so long as reproduction occurs . |
| 18 | This seems an apt description of the defensive strategies associated with a racism of relative affluence caught at a particular moment of its crystallization . |
| 19 | This is vital , for ultimately we want students to branch out on their own , to develop their own viewpoints , and not simply to imitate the views of the teacher bound to a particular research methodology or paradigm . |
| 20 | This month we 're going to start exploring the possibilities of superimposing pentatonic scales over any chord derived from a particular key . |
| 21 | So there are occasions when it is important to check the meaning attached to a particular word . |
| 22 | It exists in three forms : expertise from experience ( ‘ I am the only one who has done this before ’ ) ; expertise based on knowledge ; and expertise based on a particular skill ( e.g. the surgeon , the programmer , the writer , the foreign exchange dealer ) . |
| 23 | Critics of a decision reached by a particular committee could press for its review by some other committee or by the Cabinet , and the constitutional right of individual ministers to speak in the name of the government as a whole would be impaired . |
| 24 | BR managers resisted probing by ministry officials of why a particular service operated in a particular way . |
| 25 | Most estates were assessed in numbers of hides ( roughly 70,000 – 80,000 in all ) , units used in the allocation of public burdens which might be military , as in 1008 , when every 300 hides provided a ship and every eight a helmet and byrnie ( mail-coat ) for the navy , or financial , with each hide taxed at a particular rate . |
| 26 | It is wrong because you can eliminate all of the possible sensory mechanisms that might detect the tissue disturbance produced by a particular form of deprivation and motivation still persists . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) " Kitchen-sink drama " is a name used for a particular group of plays written in Britain in the late 1950s and 1960s . |
| 28 | The starting position is that of eligibility set at a particular time . |
| 29 | Some requesting States may only accept evidence taken in a particular way and the Convention tries to ensure that a request for a special procedure ( for example , for verbatim transcripts or , on the other hand , for a summary of the evidence in deposition form ; or for video-taped evidence ) will not be refused merely because it is inconvenient to the requested State . |
| 30 | He argued that ‘ interested ’ knowledge , which is knowledge acquired for a particular purpose , is the same as specialist knowledge . |