Example sentences of "singled out for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have barely scraped the surface of my topics singled out for illumination . |
| 2 | Most prominent among the effects singled out for blame is the hostile takeover , both in America and in Britain . |
| 3 | While criticising the " too tenacious traditions of a unitarian state " , he also singled out for criticism individual regional leaders whom he accused of adopting laws at variance with those of the Russian Federation ( RF ) . |
| 4 | Addressing the Supreme Soviet on Oct. 6 , Yeltsin singled out for criticism the Ministers of Foreign Economic Relations , the Economy and Industry , but gave a general endorsement of the government , saying that " under these conditions , any other government would do an even worse job " . |
| 5 | Other countries singled out for criticism included Turkey , which fails to prevent the illegal slaughter of huge numbers of dolphins and porpoises in the Black Sea , and Canada , which has allowed the beluga , or white whale , to be hunted to a point near extinction . |
| 6 | Some of it has been established ‘ good practice ’ for several years , such as Portage , singled out for mention in the Warnock Report . |
| 7 | Landowners singled out for attention on Forbidden Britain day included the Earl of Macclesfield , who owns an estate of 8,000 acres , most of which is denied to the public , and Viscount Parker , who has an estate in the Oxfordshire Chilterns . |
| 8 | Not all traditional or other communities singled out for study get the anthropologists they deserve , or vice versa although a surprisingly high proportion seem to . |
| 9 | Victims singled out for assassination by the IRA have ranged from senior managers to builder 's labourers . |
| 10 | Probably , in those days , I was a bit of an ideological innocent — shamingly , I even singled out for praise the ostentatiously populist action of one member of the national executive . |
| 11 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 12 | Among those whom the author singled out for praise were Edward III , who recalled his victory against the French at Sluys in June 1340 by introducing a fighting ship onto the noble of England , and Henry V , who built great ships and dealt firmly with those who were causing trouble to English shipping . |
| 13 | The national coach singled out for praise Ally McCoist — ‘ the predator ’ as Roxburgh calls him — and Eoin Jess . ’ |
| 14 | It began during Henry VIII 's reign with the Cromwellian injunctions of 1536 and 1538 , which singled out for destruction superstitious images attracting pilgrimages and offerings . |