Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] a particular [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 2 | Probably the first time that tsunami were blamed for a particular deposit was in Sir Edward Bailey 's brilliant exposition of the origin of the Upper Jurassic boulder beds in eastern Scotland , discussed in the last chapter . |
| 3 | While legal accountability is primarily directed towards providing protection for the individual against administrative discretion , political and managerial accountability are concerned more with the provision of an account of why funds were disbursed in a particular manner and what results or benefits thereby resulted . |
| 4 | These were done for a particular customer that wanted them buffed . |
| 5 | In order to establish that its terms were incorporated into a particular contract , a business must show that they were accepted by , or on behalf of , the other contracting party . |
| 6 | If cases were selected for a particular disposal at random , Galloway suggested , how could proper consideration be being given to the welfare of the child in every case ? |
| 7 | Coins , especially those of precious metal , were made at a particular standard of so many coins to a unit of weight ( be this a Roman scripulum or an English grain ) . |
| 8 | It happens erm I 've handled a case myself where shares were valued at a particular amount on the death and er in due course they needed to be sold as part of the administration unfortunately they 'd gone down er a fair amount in the mean time . |
| 9 | But if a recognised and accepted scale of ranks were needed within a particular society it was just as essential within the international one made up of different states which Europe was increasingly becoming . |
| 10 | You felt you were locked into a particular stratum of society , that that was your place and that was where you stayed . |
| 11 | Once the parties had been heard , the master or registrar would have the power either to make an ‘ unless ’ order , that is that the case would be struck out unless particular steps were taken within a particular time , or the case would be set down for trial . |
| 12 | In the early 19th Century many yards were associated with a particular guild or craft with weavers , fullers , dyers , etc. gathering together for their convenience . |
| 13 | Time and time again families were identified with a particular farm or tenement , a link that was all the stronger because the home was also the place of work , the spot where an individual spent most of his time . |
| 14 | Of these , 340 were pinpointed to a particular chromosome , with at least one on each of the 23 pairs of chromosomes ( McKusick , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | Each CV was tailored to a particular post by including a short paragraph explaining why the candidate was applying for the job . |
| 16 | To the extent that he went further so as to suggest that in no circumstances could the speeches be looked at other than for the purposes of seeing what was said on a particular date , his remarks have to be understood in the context of the issues which arose in that case . |
| 17 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 18 | All of this is very relevant and important when considering why some places became towns and perhaps why a castle was built in a particular place , but it is not so relevant to people in an agricultural community whose main consideration would be disposition of the local resources . |
| 19 | It would sound odd to put this description into the past tense , with " described " and " constructed " , unless you were deliberately emphasising the the fact that this book was produced at a particular point in the past , for example in order to compare it explicitly with a book written more recently . |
| 20 | was born at a particular moment ( the Big Bang ) |
| 21 | For 16 months , like a prince in medieval England who succeeds to the throne before he comes of age , he was tied to a particular past and regime , hedged by his predecessor 's courtiers and advisers , living through his minority and aching to make his own mark . |
| 22 | In the absence of an animal , or even in addition to it , it is quite possible that some form of comfort was found at a particular place or sanctuary , and even within the minute span of evolutionary time measured by a single generation , it is possible for such a retreat to have become a very special place for a whole family , or even a tribe . |
| 23 | This legacy was crystallized into a particular criticism of the developmental CMHT approach by staff within one health authority . |
| 24 | In some cases the produce was earmarked for a particular deity or shrine , and therefore , by implication , the priests and servants of a particular sanctuary . |
| 25 | The Welsh coast was cited as a particular case for concern . |
| 26 | Unlike the United States Supreme Court , which can delve deep into the deliberations of the Founding Fathers to try to elucidate what was meant by a particular provision of the Constitution , British courts are not permitted to look at the proceedings of Parliament in order to determine what Parliament really meant . |
| 27 | These cover a large range of things , like the patient 's age , the patient 's sex , where the pain is , where it started , how quickly it came on , and so on and so forth , and essentially within the computer has a large table , and this table contains , how shall I put it , the frequency with which this particular symptom was associated with a particular disease over the last few hundred patients that have been seen at that hospital . |
| 28 | FOR SEVERAL YEARS the Observer magazine ran a contentious but entertaining feature entitled ‘ The Expert 's Expert ’ , in which a straw poll was conducted among a particular craft or profession , in order to discover the unchallenged master . |
| 29 | Each group was dedicated to a particular cowboy , be it Red Rider , Tom Mix or Randolph Scott . |
| 30 | Whether the Tripartite Shrine was dedicated to a particular deity or was sacred to all the deities of the Minoan pantheon is hard to tell . |