Example sentences of "singled out for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although Eliot was only one member of a jury which included among others Robert Lowell , W. H. Auden , Conrad Aiken and Katherine Anne Porter , he was singled out for abuse : in fact , he seemed to receive more than Pound himself . |
| 2 | South Korean boats fishing for tuna have been singled out for blame . |
| 3 | Fear of encroachments by the government or the armed forces on the liberty of the subject , coupled with a feeling that it was unjust that one particular group should be singled out for treatment in this way , combined to defeat all such suggestions . |
| 4 | How very conceited to assume that , out of all the billions of billions of planets in the universe , our own little backwater of a world , in our own local backwater of a solar system , in our own local backwater of a galaxy , should have been singled out for life ? |
| 5 | Thus , tenants were singled out for protection regarding rent levels and security , but mere licensees were excluded from this . |
| 6 | The process by which the fittest are singled out for survival is natural selection . |
| 7 | But in the devastating Resolution of 1948 , the Sixth was singled out for criticism and removed from the repertoire . |
| 8 | But no one newspaper was singled out for criticism over coverage of the tour . |
| 9 | The BBC is particularly singled out for criticism for its recent coverage and the exclusion of senior Presbyterian Church figures from televised discussions on the worsening political situation and from a BBC radio debate on Church representation on education boards . |
| 10 | The brunt of the assault was directed at the USA , but also singled out for criticism were the European Communities ( EC ) , Australia , Canada , Hong Kong , Indonesia , South Korea , Singapore and Thailand . |
| 11 | Those singled out for criticism included Rear Adml. |
| 12 | The USA was singled out for criticism over " its unneighbourly actions against Cuba " and urged to lift its economic embargo . |
| 13 | There was some concern expressed at the Director being singled out for criticism , but the Chief Officer considered that the criticism was necessary ‘ since it was the leadership which was stifling academic development and progress ’ . |
| 14 | At the Strasbourg meeting of signatories of the Berne wild life convention , Britain was singled out for criticism over the Canford Heath development . |
| 15 | However , no one newspaper was singled out for criticism . |
| 16 | Although the Nigeria debate was a relative success after a year of criticism , its significance was not lost on Law : it was held on the subject central to Unionist economic attitudes ; Law and Steel-Maitland were singled out for censure , a pointer to the level of party discontent Party feeling had built up much as Law 's own had done ; having fought off the direct attack , he took the party along with him in the effort to reconstruct the government on more businesslike lines . |
| 17 | Your article on the problems of foreign-owned stockbrokers in Tokyo ( ‘ Gaijin , gaijin , gone ’ , December 22nd ) has caused considerable offence within Barclays and has quite unfairly and incorrectly singled out for attack one of our middle managers , Michael Tomalin . |
| 18 | Radio 4 's Today is singled out for attack . |
| 19 | SINGLED OUT FOR ASSASSINATION |
| 20 | And it was suggested that the closure programme had not been properly thought out , resulting in some homes being singled out for closure which should be kept open . |
| 21 | Cranston claimed that his relationship with Keating was essentially no different from that of the other four senators , but that , because he was suffering from cancer and had announced his intention not to seek re-election on the expiry in 1992 of his current term , he had been singled out for sanction as a " scapegoat " . |
| 22 | In case you fail to appreciate the lustre of this honour , I should point out that you have to do something pretty dreadful to be singled out for vilification in a sermon . |
| 23 | He carried on playing despite the pain and was singled out for praise by coach Berbizier who thanked him for his dedication and courage . |
| 24 | The Microfilm fx 's documentation must be singled out for praise , it was the clearest and most comprehensive . |
| 25 | Of his early paintings little is known , as he destroyed most of them between 1941 and 1944 , although as early as 1934 a crucifixion exhibited in a Curzon Street basement was singled out for praise by the critic Herbert Read . |
| 26 | Also singled out for praise were Francesco Bianchi Ferrari e la pittura a Modena fra ‘ 400 e ‘ 500 by Daniele Benati ; Palazzo Vecchio e dintorni . |
| 27 | Two of his country houses , Eshton Hall , Yorkshire ( 1825–7 ) , and Underley Hall near Kirkby Lonsdale ( 1825–8 ) , are amongst the very earliest examples of this idiom , as well as being notably accomplished productions which were singled out for praise in Specimens of the Details of Elizabethan Architecture ( 1839 ) , by Henry Shaw [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | Singled out for praise was the use of a cartoon Michelangelo across the centre spread to illustrate a feature headlined ‘ Invest in your future ’ — all about Personal Development Plans . |
| 29 | Stephen Morrow played at left back against Albania and was singled out for praise by Bingham . |
| 30 | One of those mines in North Wales was singled out for praise by American consultants Boyds . |