Example sentences of "[adv prt] for special [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , certain subject areas may be singled out for special treatment in any authority , either for local reasons ( e.g. subject fields relating to local industries ) or simply from a sense of commitment to the public library 's responsibilities in certain areas ( e.g. current affairs , the arts ) . |
| 2 | Students were a group already singled out for special attention in the effort to keep out the ‘ bourgeois liberalism ’ which had influenced their predecessors at the turn of the century . |
| 3 | Although ‘ Ave verum corpus ’ was evidently composed well before its publication in the first book of Gradualia ( 1605 ) , it barely circulated in manuscript ( there are only two handwritten sources ) , and there is no evidence to show that it was singled out for special attention in Catholic households . |
| 4 | The Staffordshire Blithe , whose lower reaches escaped the axe and are therefore witness to how exquisite a properly managed river can be , was picked out for special mention in the Journal of Agriculture for 1927 . |
| 5 | History may be cited as an example , not least because in the post-Falklands era several leading figures , including Sir Keith Joseph and Professor Hugh Thomas , have singled it out for special mention in connection with ‘ understanding the shared values which are a distinctive feature of British Society ’ . |