Example sentences of "[art] particular [noun sg] or a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cohort may consist of all persons born in the same year ( a birth cohort or generation ) ; but all women married in a particular year or a random sample of all cancer sufferers diagnosed in a certain month are equally valid examples of cohorts . |
| 2 | In bibliographic databases , it is important to consider whether pupils will want or need to search for a particular author , a particular location or a particular format such as " book " or " video " . |
| 3 | The patient may need to adapt to living in a new way ( e.g. Mr Reynolds ' stoma ) or without a particular organ or a limb which will make considerable alterations in lifestyle ( e.g. an amputation ) . |
| 4 | This may be a particular sum or a price determined by reference to a formula or other basis ( s166(6) ) . |
| 5 | So one of the purposes of research is to find things out by seeing if the world can be investigated using a particular set of assumptions , a particular perspective or a particular approach , trying to see if they yield promising and interesting findings , answer problems that preoccupy researchers , and so on . |
| 6 | It is therefore essential to examine the expert clause which should state who the expert is to be , whether : ( 1 ) a named individual ( see 9.3 ) ; or ( 2 ) a named firm or company ( see 9.3 ) ; or ( 3 ) the individual , firm or company holding a particular position ( see 9.4 ) ; or ( 4 ) a member of a particular profession or a holder of a particular academic or professional qualification ( see 9.5 ) ; and whether ( 5 ) there are any special criteria for the expert 's suitability ( see 9.6 ) . |
| 7 | 9.5 A member of a particular profession or a holder of a |
| 8 | All projects have a lot of features in common but equally there are areas that are special to a particular industry or a particular company . |
| 9 | It might be a particular smell , a particular melody or a brief glimpse of a person resembling one of the actors in an event which is then recalled . |
| 10 | Within western society it might represent a socio-economic group , people in a particular employment or a young people 's counter-culture and so on . |
| 11 | If the output seems to be fixed ( for example a particular product or a particular market ) then efficiency means reducing the cost of that output . |
| 12 | Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers . |
| 13 | Yeah their their funding tends to be they 'll they 'll fund something like a production or they 'll say at you know if you put our name up were give you so much or General Portfolio perhaps will will fund a particular show or a series of show 's or say were prepared to put a thousand pounds could you name six shows and we 'll put our name on those show 's when they 're advertised but no company or other Council 's actually prepared to come along and say were prepared to put money on a regular basis . |