Example sentences of "is [verb] a particular [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A simple extension is to provide a particular value of the tag field which does not specify a data format , and which always causes an error condition to be signalled whenever an operand is accessed with this value in the tag field . |
| 2 | One is to allocate a particular colour to a number of contiguous levels in the image so that , for example , the levels 0–32 might be displayed in dark blue , 33–67 in dark green , 68–87 in cyan , and so on . |
| 3 | This is to give a particular impression of the organisation to its public . |
| 4 | If the runner can be told exactly why he or she is doing a particular type of training , what bodily changes it will bring about and how he or she should run to achieve them , then those 15 minutes a day of quality training are more than enough . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most practical advice is to contact a particular person at the creditor 's premises and explain your financial difficulties . |
| 6 | On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage . |
| 7 | He says social workers want to know how children will be affected if the main focus of the activity is to ensure a particular type of interview . |
| 8 | In the first , suppose the firm is undertaking a particular project . |
| 9 | It is taking a particular interest in proposals in Britain , such as a pilot road-charging scheme in Cambridge which could be introduced in 1994 , a similar but smaller scheme underway in the London Borough of Richmond , and a highway-pricing plan for Edinburgh . |
| 10 | The fact that at any given moment only one producer is making a particular product is not by itself an impairment of the competitive process . |
| 11 | On the contrary , by correcting himself in this way the author is making a particular point : that although the occasion might have been regarded as a performance by some , that although it might have in time become a performance , this description is not an accurate representation of the narrator 's memories . |
| 12 | She , it appears , is awaiting a particular suitor who is just not as fast on his feet as the others . |
| 13 | The use of non-colloquial speech in this way as practice material is to develop a particular skill . |
| 14 | Shakespeare is portraying a particular society and time which was cynical and sour ; his play is not a nihilistic vision of the whole world . |
| 15 | Usually all the court is asked , or needs , to do is to authorise a particular course of treatment where the person or body whose consent is requisite is unable or unwilling to do so . |
| 16 | The present aim of shaft design is to specify a particular bending flexibility in the shaft while reducing twisting as far as possible . |