Example sentences of "[adv] for particular " in BNC.
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| 1 | One result of this has been a contraction in the value that venture capitalists can put on for particular businesses . |
| 2 | There 's , to be clear about it , that it 's completely confidential , that their looking only for particular words that are used in different parts of the country and in different locations . |
| 3 | The Sinclair Spectrum came in for particular criticism . |
| 4 | Once the Iraqis had pulled out , Kuwaiti vigilantes began combing the city for any Iraqi soldiers still hiding in the ruins and for anyone known or thought to have collaborated with the enemy , with Palestinians coming in for particular attention . |
| 5 | The Ulster Unionists came in for particular criticism , being accused of sacrificing the province 's interests in Europe for the prospect of holding the balance of power at Westminster . |
| 6 | He emphasized that peace had to be preserved for the entire human race and not for particular sections of it , pointing out that the word ‘ civilization ’ could be applied to a wide diversity of values . |
| 7 | The most common varieties of this system ( commonly used in other member states of the European Community and in some elections in Northern Ireland ) are the single transferable vote system ( under which primary votes of the least successful candidates are progressively redistributed to the more successful ) and the list-system , under the simplest variety of which votes are cast not for particular candidates , but for parties , the ‘ list ’ of whose candidates will benefit proportionately to the party 's overall vote . |
| 8 | Courses are intended to prepare the student for adult life and work generally , not for particular jobs . |
| 9 | A less common pattern is for teachers to combine classes and teach together ( ‘ team teaching ’ ) , usually for particular subjects or in open-plan primary schools . |
| 10 | In other words , although the rule is broken all the time , it is broken deliberately for particular effects , which we would not perceive if the rule did not have some psychological reality . |
| 11 | Sometimes children make things to take home for particular members of their family . |
| 12 | But there is a partial definition of ‘ appropriates ’ in clause 3(1) , which is included partly to indicate that this is the familiar concept of conversion but also for particular reasons later to be mentioned . |
| 13 | This ability is independent of idiosyncratic beliefs , feelings and usages ( although it may refer to those shared by participants ) , and is based for the most part on quite regular and relatively abstract principles Pragmatics can be taken to be the description of this ability , as it operates both for particular languages and language in general . |
| 14 | Also singled out for particular censure has been Mozart 's wife Constanze , who has often been accused of hastening her husband 's early death through her sluttishness , extravagance , and inability to keep the household finances in order . |
| 15 | He singled out for particular attention the concepts of cause and effect , which we use and take for granted in everyday life , which are central to scientific study , and which were also essential to the theological argument from causality . |
| 16 | The conference was broadly enough based to include both Samuel Gurney and the intemperate American Garrisonian , Parker Pillsbury , but although the BFASS committee supported a resolution encouraging American abolitionists of all ‘ persuasions , it refused to eat enough of its past words to single out for particular mention the American Anti-Slavery Society , associated with the Garrison 's ‘ heretical ’ notions . |
| 17 | I understand the hon. Gentleman 's concern , which is shared by my Department , but I do not think that on reflection he would want the defence industry to be singled out for particular treatment from our other manufacturing industries . |
| 18 | Alistair Darling , Labour MP for Edinburgh Central , singled out for particular criticism the general manager of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children , who was provided with a BMW saloon . |
| 19 | One vivid account of the means by which this may be achieved is set out in Ancrene Wisse , an early Middle English text written originally for particular sisters in the late twelfth century who wanted to live as recluses dedicated to God but later adopted more widely in other such communities . |
| 20 | You would take on some responsibility immediately for particular areas and additional responsibilities are available to those with the ability and enthusiasm to take them on . |
| 21 | Texts are sometimes altered editorially for particular purposes , and in this respect , for example , you could compare Shakespeare 's play Henry V with a version of the play revised for performance in the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | In many cases , kin may be ‘ chosen ’ ( and other kin ignored ) just as friends may be chosen , and individuals may choose to go to non-kin instead for particular kinds of help or services . |