Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] particular " in BNC.

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1 this would change the interpretation to be given to particular statutory provisions ; or
2 That is not to say that reasonable protection from development should not be given to particular areas , for it is important to retain the character of the land and to ensure that all tastes are catered for : For instance , some people like to climb dangerous rocks in pouring rain .
3 The constituent units may be of quite different length and they may appear in quite a different order and quite different emphases may be given to particular features of the story , but the corpus as a whole will contain the same set of elements .
4 Like any rules , spelling rules can be broken for particular effect , as in the poet Ezra Pound 's dismissive spelling of " culture " as " kulchur " , or the hostile spelling of " America " as " Amerika " .
5 Paintings and works on paper by members of the Glasgow School of painting and by French and Dutch contemporaries will be juxtaposed , while the role of the Glasgow School of Art will be examined with particular reference to the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh , Herbert McNair and their wives , Margaret and Frances MacDonald .
6 The interplay of class , status and party in the formation of social groups is complex and variable and must be examined in particular societies during particular time periods .
7 But he told Mr Brown : ‘ You are saying that in some way income-related benefits have to be adjusted for particular price rises that occur .
8 House , furniture , people Doll 's house furniture may be sorted to be placed in particular rooms .
9 Floating exchange rates have the added advantage that responsibility for the burden of adjustment does not have to be assigned to particular countries : with floating , the exchange rate mechanism itself should lead to an appreciation of strong currencies and a depreciation of weak currencies .
10 " As regards common security , the gradual extension of the Union 's role in this area should be considered with particular reference initially to issues debated in international organizations : arms control , disarmament and related issues ; CSCE matters ; certain questions debated in the United Nations , including peacekeeping operations ; economic and technological co-operation in the armaments field ; co-ordination of armaments export policy , and non-proliferation . "
11 Because AIDS was initially seen to be confined to particular groups , some countries which associated drug-taking and homosexuality with deviant or criminal behaviour took punitive measures .
12 The same is not true of working-class people , whose social contacts tend to be confined within particular settings .
13 In particular , someone , maybe the DHA or the individual GP , needs to decide whether contracts are to be let for particular services or not .
14 The theory of the foregoing section will now be applied to particular purely reactive filters .
15 ‘ In order to achieve this , measures must be developed that can be applied at particular neuralgic points only and that will all the same have a traffic restraining effect on the whole area .
16 I am simply denying that God ( whatever we may mean by God ) could be of such a kind that God could intervene in human history , or be revealed through particular events in history , or through a particular person , in a way in which God is not potentially present to us in and through all acts and persons .
17 Note should be made of particular skills and types of care not practised elsewhere .
18 The choice of data and the accuracy required of the forecasts depends on the use to be made of particular forecasts and the time scale to which they relate .
19 The execution of the will was certainly not a quick and easy process because of the number and geographical range of the bequests : there were the arrangements for his burial in the Church of St. Thomas of Acre in London , the founding of a chapel at Woodhead and the School in Stockport , together with masses and annual and daily services of prayers for his soul , road building in Essex , repair of the Cripplegate in London , gifts to the poor in and around Stockport and London and to churches in Stockport , Ashton , and Mottram , mourning rings to be made for particular friends , and legacies to his family .
20 Continuous time means that observation is unceasing , such as a continuous record of river discharge ; quantized time is when imaginary sections are used to subdivide time , as when precipitation amounts are measured daily or weekly ; discrete time is when interest focuses upon time duration and frequency of events per unit of time ; and sampled time is when observations can only be made at particular periods , such as weekly measurements of plant growth .
21 Malcolm Spittle the figures in policy H One are quite clearly referred to as provision that will be made in particular settlements , they are not stated as the the requirement for dwellings generated by that particular settlement , erm , that is quite clearly set out in policy H One , that is the wording of the policy .
22 In specific instances remedies can be made from particular antigens if the remedy is not already present in the materia medica , or from particular orthodox drugs if patients have a sensitivity to these .
23 In the light of modern knowledge of crime and its causes and of modern penal practice here and abroad , to re-examine the concepts and purposes which should underlie the punishment and treatment of offenders in England and Wales ; to report how far they are realised by the penalties and methods of treatment available to the courts , and whether any changes in these , or in the arrangements and responsibility for selecting the sentences to be imposed on particular offenders , are desirable : to review the work of the services and institutions dealing with offenders , and the responsibility for their administration : and to make recommendations .
24 Suspended sentence — activation — whether activation of a suspended sentence is subject to restrictions on the maximum aggregate term of imprisonment which may be imposed in particular circumstances
25 The effect of using garnet as an inlay can be seen with particular brilliance in the jewellery purse components , shield ornaments and sword-fittings from the royal ship-burial at Sutton Hoo ( fig. 27 ) .
26 Specialist treatment bases might continue to exist where intensive work could be done on particular problems , but their aim would be to ensure that children could take advantage of mainstream services .
27 A bit more will be said of particular features of the metalinguistic and possible-worlds proposals , but let us first consider something common to both of them and indeed to other proposals .
28 That is to say they believe that God was in some sense differently related to particular events , or may be said in particular to have revealed God 's self through those events , in a way in which this is not true of all other events or periods in history .
29 The activities of delinquent fans might be more intelligible if they can be related to particular roles and positions with respect to other fans .
30 The other is in European and Comparative Law , under the auspices of the Law Board , and will be related in particular to the degree of M.Juris. , a one-year postgraduate degree , and to a new four-year undergraduate degree in Law , one year of which is spent at a European university .
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