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

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1 Programs chosen must also be relevant to the subject matter studied by pupils and not artificially inserted into the curriculum The software must relate directly to the way in which the sub being taught in a particular school and one disadvantage of generally produced software , in history for example , is that it may be rely in one school but not in another .
2 You should therefore make as much effort as you would if you were being interviewed for a particular job .
3 In his Introduction to the Paston Letters J. Gairdner pointed out that letters were often dated as being written on a particular day of the week , say Monday or Wednesday , before or after such a celebration .
4 Being the wrong age , being in the wrong place at the wrong time , or being domiciled in a particular district reverse the assumptions of due process .
5 This article comes out of the familiar experience of being drawn to a particular image , or set of images , without at first knowing why , and the attempt to account for this feeling .
6 In order to have a sense of how the different codes are used in interactions , it is necessary for the linguist to be quite clear about which code is being used at a particular time .
7 Workmen 's and Schoolchildren 's tickets were sold in lots of six , a certain colour being used on a particular day .
8 The situation has changed and it is now possible to determine , for example , how much oxygen is being used by a particular area of the brain while a subject does a task like reading or memorizing a word list ( Raichle 1983 ) .
9 In each of the seven categories the rational and political model indicators provide a framework for analysing the budgetary approach that is being used in a particular school .
10 Marx saw history as divided into a number of time periods or epochs , each being characterized by a particular mode of production .
11 The implication of the above discussion is that the adequacy of any accountability scheme will depend on ( 1 ) the particular interpretation being employed in a particular context , and ( 2 ) a holistic , or overall , judgement of the extent to which the procedures meet the criteria .
12 Yes erm , we 've actually linked with a firm of independent mortgage brokers erm so rather than being tied to a particular building society as most estate agents are erm what they will do is they 'll shop around and tell you which lenders are offering the best terms and particularly good schemes at any one time erm , it 's literally free information they simply phone you up and say get some idea of what your salary is and what your requirements are and then they 'll send through some information for you .
13 The intention of a Gift Aid scheme is to encourage giving without the donor being tied to a particular charity for this length of time .
14 Maybe you have read of gold being found in a particular locality , but now you can see it .
15 ( a ) Middle East Economic Survey ( MEES ) , indicating the terms on which both freight and insurance were being negotiated at a particular stage of the war , described the freight element as follows : ‘ Kharg to Europe : W70-80 .
16 within a cemented sediment , by dissolution being concentrated along a particular surface , usually irregular , termed a stylolite .
17 The position can be even further distorted by votes for a particular party being concentrated in a particular region or locality , as opposed to being evenly spread over the country as a whole .
18 Professor Tetley likes the regulated status of this United States version of a waybill and contrasts it with waybills in the United Kingdom and Canada , which , being unfettered by a particular statute stipulate their own terms and conditions often to the detriment of certainty and fairness .
19 ( d ) Both operands are in accumulators and the result replaces the contents of one of the accumulators , whether the first or the second usually being fixed for a particular computer ( as with two-address instructions ) .
20 I have not touched on the difficult question of localization here : it is a lively issue where the brain is concerned , but not for the digital computer because , depending on how you interpret its operations , information can be thought of as being anywhere at all in the machine ( i.e. not localized in the sense of being associated with a particular place in it ) , or ( and in some sense conversely ) all operations of the machine can be thought of as going on in one very small and specific place .
21 Their responses affect the habits of nectar-seeking insects and the type of pollen that is being spread at a particular time of day .
22 The reference of chair would therefore be a particular chair that is being identified on a particular occasion .
23 Often , this realisation is quite sudden , being triggered by a particular problem or crisis .
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