Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] a particular " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre shows a map of the receptive field of a particular ganglion cell obtained using a stationary spot . |
| 2 | Within this programme , what appears in the formal recommendations as an academic or school subject , in fact consists of approved principles and methods for cultural intervention into popular linguistic practices with the overall purpose of generating a subjective attachment to a particular sense of national identity . |
| 3 | Situated within a tradition of sociological inquiry into working-class attitudes and behaviour , it is a theoretically sophisticated attempt to account for the dynamics of political change in a particular locality . |
| 4 | It is less susceptible to tinkering with individual unit costs in order to make the total budget for a particular service conform to externally imposed cash limits . |
| 5 | Her action is seen as an irrational or emotional response to a particular situation ; she ‘ only did it for love ’ , for example . |
| 6 | These applications require the assembling of data and concepts from the different systematic branches of geography to produce an integrated picture of the demographic , social , environmental and economic aspects of a particular area . |
| 7 | Though not used by homoeopathic pharmacies in this country for potencies below the 1M , it is used commercially in Belgium for all potencies , and is also used when a practitioner has to make a specific potency for a particular patient , such as a potency of chloroform for a case of chloroform allergy . |
| 8 | It can provide general lighting so you can move around safely and see more or less what you are doing when it 's dark outside ; task lighting when you want more concentrated light in a particular area for a particular job ( including reading ) ; mood lighting to provide different atmospheres in different rooms at different times ; and it can also be used to illuminate the outside of the home . |
| 9 | When the possible words in a particular position have been determined , the information about these words is transferred from the lexicon to the interface structure . |
| 10 | The second is to place that direct experience of a particular generation against the longer perspective of time . |
| 11 | Peter Samuel of Kingfisher cited two different routes : a recommendation of a consultancy from a referral source , i.e. an executive who has come into contact with the headhunter on a previous assignment ; and by direct experience of a particular search firm from the user point of view from a Kingfisher executive who had employed that firm on a previous occasion , before he worked for Kingfisher . |
| 12 | Sometimes , a judge may suffer from irrational horror at a particular case and sentence too severely — to the point of mistake . |
| 13 | Blanche was happy as she walked out , confident at the end of the afternoon that she had at last found an explanation for Tatyana Nowak 's suicide , and the first direct link between a particular human being and the murder . |
| 14 | Carol said the centre and its staff could monitor if a particular department was producing repeated cases of a particular injury or illness , and make recommendations about how the problem could be solved . |
| 15 | The work is produced in direct response to a particular scene or constructed still life , and only when finished is consideration given as to whether to present it to a gallery or publisher . |
| 16 | Where lighting consistently exceeds the recommended level for a particular area certain tubes could be removed , but in the case of switch start light circuits , the starter must also be removed otherwise this will continue to use power . |
| 17 | Sam 's other major talent was , to be frank , on the wrong side of a particular , somewhat dubious aspect of the law . |
| 18 | The marketing mix is a central feature of an organization 's tactical plan for a particular market . |
| 19 | THERE are certain problems in seeking to identify the intellectual foundations of the functionalist style in public law with a particular political ideology . |
| 20 | The historical problem becomes , not how to establish a sequence of political regimes associated with a universal process of socio-economic development , but how to explain the interconnection of different elements within a particular historical type of society and state . |
| 21 | Players are those whose actions have , or can have , a direct influence on a particular industry sector . |
| 22 | A purpose which is for the direct benefit of a particular class of persons ( other than a State institution ) is not charitable , although it results in an indirect benefit to the community . |
| 23 | Not being for the direct benefit of a particular class of persons it is in the general enlightened opinion of the time wholly for the benefit of the community , although such benefit be intangible . |
| 24 | Also , I should say that erm the District Health Authorities now also have the right to initiate this , and of course they are more likely to be in contact with children who are under erm school age , and so it 's going to imply that the different services within the Local Authorities are going to have to work quite closely together on this one and what you should have , by the time a statement is prepared , is a very detailed profile of a particular child and one in which the parent has been consulted and various other people have been consulted . |
| 25 | On that view , institutional forms created by men to suit their common or social needs at a particular point in time take on a being of their own . |
| 26 | The sense of ‘ the men ’ constituting a social group in a particular enterprise can be found in the joking relationships that are established which Willis describes in some detail . |
| 27 | Inevitably , discussion with different individuals about a particular task will yield very different versions of what is being done or should be done . |
| 28 | Such knowledge would be useful not just to enable us to forecast when the revolution might happen , but also in helping us to know how to make choices between different versions of a particular technology , and how to organise work to operate that technology . |
| 29 | More usually the Committee is synthesizing informed opinion on a particular proposal . |
| 30 | It may serve a useful purpose for a universalized anthropological social psychology , but it will lack the necessary focus to be a key theoretical notion in a particular , historical social psychology . |