Example sentences of "[be] singled out for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should the uterus be singled out for such treatment ? |
| 2 | I think at that age one is very concerned to be seen to be similar to one 's peers and hence not to be singled out for differential treatment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Pensioners and the disabled would be singled out for special treatment , whether they paid rates or not . |
| 5 | When people hover for a tip , it 's excruciating , says Jon , 34 ‘ I do n't see why people working in certain industries should be singled out for special treatment . |
| 6 | The boys queued in sets of five outside the headmaster 's room , each clutching his signed slip and praying he would not be singled out for special treatment . |
| 7 | Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’ |
| 8 | However , certain subject areas may be singled out for special treatment in any authority , either for local reasons ( e.g. subject fields relating to local industries ) or simply from a sense of commitment to the public library 's responsibilities in certain areas ( e.g. current affairs , the arts ) . |
| 9 | Also the workers felt a certain status and a privilege to be singled out for special treatment . |
| 10 | They need not be subjected to obtrusive or distressing questions that may have no relevance to their illness , and no one will be singled out for discriminatory treatment . |
| 11 | The principal methods of investigation will be survey and semi-stuctured interview , culminating in the selection of 24 firms for in-depth study , three of which will be singled out for longitudinal analysis . |
| 12 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 13 | But Mary was not actually being singled out for special treatment or favour , except in so far as her own attractiveness and charm marked her out . |
| 14 | He would certainly not have approved of being singled out for special treatment . |
| 15 | A number of developments are singled out for brief reference . |
| 16 | At present about 85% of foreign aid is earmarked by Congress for specific purposes in selected countries : unlucky countries that have not been singled out for earmarked money are vulnerable to savage cuts . |
| 17 | ‘ I was very surprised to have been singled out for this honour . |
| 18 | There is one particular practice that has been singled out for special treatment and that is resale price maintenance . |
| 19 | Elderly people have not been singled out for special consideration either , but for quite a different reason : their needs are broadly the same as those of younger adults , and specialist mental health services for elderly people are now developing all over the country as a direct response to the enormous growth in the numbers of people with dementia . |
| 20 | Because both test and control groups had been singled out for special attention a group pride had developed and this became the motivation for improved performance . |
| 21 | While individual players have rightly been singled out for special mention , the very considerable success of Canada 's World Cup campaign was based on a concerted team effort . |
| 22 | It is Coward who is singled out for specific blame by Durgnat , his screenplay compared explicitly/dismissively to women 's romance fiction as if that , by itself , was a confirmation of worthlessness . |
| 23 | The misuse of inside information within the new conglomerate structure is singled out for specific analysis . |
| 24 | It is proposed , despite the fact that it is the unorthodox view of insider dealing which is singled out for special attention , to review the policy arguments for and against the use of inside information , even where at times the debate seems more applicable to the traditional view of insider dealing . |
| 25 | Given that a detailed examination of every transaction of a business is impossible , auditing concentrates on a sample confined to a period of time or to a type of transaction which is singled out for detailed examination . |
| 26 | Married women were always treated as a class apart for insurance purposes and in 1932 they found their health insurance benefits cut because of the high risk they represented , even though no other group with excessive claims ( for example miners ) was singled out for similar treatment . |
| 27 | Although ‘ Ave verum corpus ’ was evidently composed well before its publication in the first book of Gradualia ( 1605 ) , it barely circulated in manuscript ( there are only two handwritten sources ) , and there is no evidence to show that it was singled out for special attention in Catholic households . |