Example sentences of "be [vb pp] for a particular " in BNC.

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31 These were done for a particular customer that wanted them buffed .
32 If cases were selected for a particular disposal at random , Galloway suggested , how could proper consideration be being given to the welfare of the child in every case ?
33 Prominence , which is the basis for our sense of the particularity of a style , also provides the condition for recognition that a style is being used for a particular literary end : that it has a " value in the game " .
34 ( d ) Both operands are in accumulators and the result replaces the contents of one of the accumulators , whether the first or the second usually being fixed for a particular computer ( as with two-address instructions ) .
35 In a seminar last week at CERN , Rubbia presented five events , or collisions , in which the particles that emerge are consistent with what is expected for a particular mode of decay of the particle .
36 Where a government is very keen to press on with its programme , and where it can foresee that it would otherwise be frustrated by pressure of time , it can move that a timetable be adopted for a particular measure and , if the House so resolves , the Business Committee of the House will arrange a programme for a particular Bill , setting aside a specific number of days for each stage .
37 This is very similar to the way a cassette is searched for a particular file .
38 If a sequence of six enzymes is needed for a particular synthetic pathway , all six genes for making them must be present .
39 These expressions , and those like them ( Uriah Heep , Job 's Comforter , Don Quixote come immediately to mind ) involve a character who is used for a particular , and rather limited , purpose , namely the personalisation of a distinct quality .
40 If a group of mated animals is required for a particular day it is possible to increase the probability of mating using the Whitten effect ( 5 ) .
41 In some cases the produce was earmarked for a particular deity or shrine , and therefore , by implication , the priests and servants of a particular sanctuary .
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