Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] a particular [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Or is there any sense in which those who oppose and vote against a particular policy or decision can be said to assent to it , or can be said to be governing themselves when they have voted against the policy that has been adopted ?
2 However , at the classroom level there may be specific objectives set for a particular session or activity .
3 When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes .
4 Singular statements , unlike a second class of statements that we will meet shortly , refer to a particular occurrence or state of affairs at a particular place at a particular time .
5 It means more than serious inconvenience , or even widespread inconvenience ( so that people might not be able to park where they usually do , or drive down a particular street or perhaps miss a train as a result of the demonstration ) .
6 Concentrate on a particular activity or function that uses a variety of information types , but where it is considered that some improvement is needed .
7 They start from a particular point and then build out sideways as in the traditional picture of a delta .
8 Those who belong to a particular group or stratum will have some awareness of common interests and a common identity .
9 Investment advertisements that relate to a particular investment or investment services must , unless they are only being issued to non-private customers , contain specific contents .
10 The physical setting of a parish influenced not only the ways in which a family might farm their land or work at a particular craft but also such basic matters as whether they lived in a village , a hamlet or an isolated farmstead , whether or not they had valuable rights of common to go with their farms or cottages , and sometimes the type of tenure by which they held their land .
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