Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [prep] a particular " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I point to a particular item in a room and say " that " , we can say that the demonstrative encodes distance from the origo , whether actual or mental , and the coincidence of indexical and symbolic meaning is only possible when we know what object is being pointed to . |
| 2 | When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does . |
| 3 | Within a long programme you may find a short sequence which contains exactly what you want for a particular lesson . |
| 4 | ( i ) The Preview-knowing what you want This is a crucial stage since it predetermines what you want from a particular history book and therefore how you are to approach it . |
| 5 | Well , that does n't sound very sophisticated to say , these are the questions when you just write everything you know about a particular issue . |
| 6 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 7 | If you play against a particular army a lot then you 'll naturally try to assemble your own force so that it stands the best possible chance against that foe . |
| 8 | If you change you mind about a particular colour that you have used in your pattern , you can replace it with another from your woolbox collection . |
| 9 | You are not a risk because you belong to a particular group , but you could put yourself at risk if you behave in ways which allow HIV transmission . |
| 10 | It is through literature that we grow into a particular kind of awareness of ourselves and — an inseparable corollary — of our manifold relations with each other and all that is not self , without which there is really not much ‘ self ’ to talk about . |
| 11 | Suppose that we look at a particular new mutant gene , out of the 2Nmf that arose . |
| 12 | If we say newspapers are a mass medium , we refer to a particular kind of ‘ message — news . |
| 13 | Individuals will also vary in the importance they attach to a particular time-cue . |
| 14 | It measures and quantifies how they act within a particular pattern of living . |
| 15 | Some recent work , however , particularly in attempting to historicise the insights of Freud , and to demonstrate the specificity of his categories ( that is , showing how they refer to a particular cultural milieu ) has opened up new possibilities . |
| 16 | The evidence suggests that they operate in a particular way , namely that there are predictable patterns in flows of support between older and younger generations , in which support flows in both directions , but on balance the older generation are the givers and the younger the receivers . |
| 17 | When they decide on a particular form of credit , their decision commonly has nothing to do with cost : it is simply that that form of credit is almost automatically part of the buying process that they 're used to . |
| 18 | They start from a particular point and then build out sideways as in the traditional picture of a delta . |
| 19 | This may be because they occur only in association with a particular element , like the cran — of cranberry , or because they occur with a particular semantic value only in the context of one other element , like the — en of oxen , the ab — of abnormal , or foot in foot the bill ; in a case of collocational uniqueness of either of these types , no contrast in which the unique element participates can be tested in a distinct linguistic environment . |
| 20 | Can I suggest that they probably simply do not know , they work in a particular way , a particular level . |