Example sentences of "of [noun sg] for a particular " in BNC.

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1 I should also value , and quickly , advice and a possible letter of support for a particular job application .
2 Nevertheless we are always faced with a contradiction between rates of deposition and the known thickness of rock for a particular period of geological time .
3 The Rules of Conduct and Codes of Practice may be amended , varied or rescinded as the Council may think fit and the Council may , in its absolute discretion , waive the provisions of any of the Rules of Conduct or Codes of Practice for a particular purpose or purposes expressed in such waiver and may revoke any waiver .
4 The relative strengths of competing hypotheses may be relevant to the decision about how many words to select for higher level processing , but unfortunately sequential hypothesize and test systems favour the collection and evaluation of evidence for a particular hypothesis in isolation from its competitors .
5 The question of suitability for a particular purpose was to be judged , as anticipated by s14(6) , by reference to description and other relevant circumstances such as price .
6 The correct choice of velocity for a particular leg length , he found , permits the swinging leg to lock straight just before impact , so it can use most of the energy gained from gravity in raising the body off the ground again .
7 The meaning of the requirement of specificity for a particular purpose was considered in Kendall v Lillico ( 1969 ) .
8 In ( b ) we are not asking the student to make up any bed but a particular kind of bed for a particular patient .
9 All over the world , standards of beauty vary ; fat women can become the ideal , or those with small feet , or tall women , or those with blue eyes , or whatever it is that seems to capture the spirit of beauty for a particular time and place .
10 We need then to consider activities which can develop student sensitivity to the quantity and ordering of information for a particular receiver .
11 As an immediate implication of this we distinguish very sharply between a producer who is the sole source of supply for a particular commodity because he has unique access to a necessary resource and one who is the sole source of supply as a result of his entrepreneurial activities ( which can easily be duplicated by his competitors , if they choose ) .
12 A spectrum in which the magnitude of rotation for a particular enantiomer is plotted against the wavelength of the light is called an Optical Rotatory Dispersion ( ORD ) spectrum .
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