Example sentences of "[noun sg] at a particular time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can notice , too , that the deictic aspect of the definite referring expression the sun ( the definite article being a deictic term ) is contextually ambiguous — I could use it homophorically ( the sun , generally ) or deictically ( the sun at a particular time and place ) . |
| 2 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 3 | Singular statements , unlike a second class of statements that we will meet shortly , refer to a particular occurrence or state of affairs at a particular place at a particular time . |
| 4 | Insofar as our interest is in the market process and its competitive character , we should no more be surprised that only one producer is making a product at a particular time than that of many producers of a particular product one is charging a price which no other producer is asking . |
| 5 | Without the relational property of being on the mat at a particular time the cat would not be the ontological individual it is . |
| 6 | Life was faster , demands changed more quickly , and people were included because they met a particular need at a particular time . |
| 7 | They say their findings are not intended to be taken as predictions , rather as snapshots of public opinion at a particular time ( though they are quick to claim credit when their ‘ snapshots ’ coincide with the final result ) . |
| 8 | A pictorial representation of the age-sex structure of a population at a particular time is provided by an age-sex profile or population pyramid . |
| 9 | Bem and Locksley and Colten agree that sex-role inventories express ideas of gender in a particular community at a particular time , and so display built-in constraints and obsolescence ( Bell and Schaffer 1984 ) . |
| 10 | A place could become holy through some historical event , a memory of a work of God done at the site at a particular time . |
| 11 | Dowsing depends on the interaction between the person and the site at a particular time . |
| 12 | Programmes are booked in advance for a particular room at a particular time and are then " broadcast " into that room as prearranged . |
| 13 | There remains the more fundamental question of why it should befall a particular person at a particular time and place . |
| 14 | So you work on one assignment at a particular time ? |
| 15 | He is often concerned with the structure of social relationships , the principles underlying organizations and the manifestation of social institutions in general as evidence at a particular time , rather than being concerned with the flow of events which attracts the historian . |
| 16 | Whilst we hope you will find these facility ratings a helpful guide when making your holiday choice , it is important you appreciate both that circumstances can change after our brochure goes to press and that such facilities can not be guaranteed throughout the season , particularly where they are dependent on weather or the level of demand at a particular time . |
| 17 | To argue over the logic or truth of an idea in absolute terms is to explore the nature of belief itself , but for an historian of ideas what is most interesting is ‘ who held a particular belief at a particular time and what needs it fulfilled for them . |
| 18 | ( The same , actually , is true of a press campaign , but there is no reason to simplify , since the appearance of an ad in a particular paper at a particular time is determined , whereas the actual TV buying pattern needs to be left flexible . ) |
| 19 | This is a serious problem for the " outsider " linguist , who may not be able to trust his/her intuition to decide which code is in use at a particular time . |
| 20 | Nevertheless there is at least one sense in which The Lord of the Rings can claim ‘ mythic ’ status , which is as ‘ a story embodying the deepest feelings of a particular society at a particular time ’ . |
| 21 | Number of employees on payroll at a particular time . |
| 22 | John Wesley and his close associate John Berridge ( 1716–93 ) , the Rector of Everton , had both been addicted to this practice ; both had used it to obtain an answer at a particular time to the knotty question whether to get married . |
| 23 | If a person is given permission to enter a building at a particular time , then entry at another time may render him a trespasser . |
| 24 | Consideration should be given to whether the internal advertising of management posts would identify those staff who were willing to be considered for a move to a particular branch at a particular time . |
| 25 | Because assessments of the spirit of community depend so much on highly variable subjective preferences and values , which may fluctuate according to the individual and the village concerned and even to the mood of the individual at a particular time , it is virtually impossible to generalize about whether there has or has not been a perceptible ‘ decline of community ’ in the English village . |
| 26 | On the other hand , a photograph can not be generalized or simplified to bring out the important diagnostic features of a species ; it must be always of an individual at a particular time and place . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , it is not possible to foresee the extent and nature of any such activity at a particular time , and we are therefore unable to issue information updates on these rapidly changing local conditions . |
| 28 | This section will analyse the development of this initiative over its first few years , in order to give a particular example of local political activity at a particular time in a particular place . |
| 29 | The use of particular terms in thesis titles proclaims not just that the author is a member of a particular sub-discipline group , but that he or she is a member at a particular time , characterised by terms rooted in the paradigms then current ( Dott ) . |
| 30 | Plainly , there is no compelling linguistic reason why , in a particular language at a particular time , loss of a segment should be considered less beautiful or less ‘ correct ’ than its insertion . |