Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] a particular " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individuals will also vary in the importance they attach to a particular time-cue . |
| 2 | It measures and quantifies how they act within a particular pattern of living . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They start from a particular point and then build out sideways as in the traditional picture of a delta . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Can I suggest that they probably simply do not know , they work in a particular way , a particular level . |