I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a certain/particular kind
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A ‘besom’ is a particular kind of broom.
a particular concern
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Noise is a particular concern of those living near the airport.
a particular individual
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The writer is addressing a general reader rather than a particular individual.
a particular item
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A local authority can decide whether a particular item of expenditure should be cut.
a particular occasion
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On that particular occasion, he greeted me by kissing my hand.
a particular type
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Have you flown this particular type of aircraft before?
a particular/special niche
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As a player, he's carved out his own special niche on the team.
a specific/particular purpose
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Training is the acquisition of knowledge and skills for a specific purpose.
an old/firm/particular favourite
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a sweater that’s an old favorite
get to/reach/live to a particular age
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One in three children die before they reach the age of 5.
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The number of people living to to the age of 80 has doubled in the last fifty years.
in general and...in particular
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We’re trying to raise awareness about the environment in general and air pollution in particular .
particular circumstances (= special or specific )
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There may be particular circumstances in which this rule will not apply.
particular importance
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Tourism has particular importance in some regions.
particular/special emphasis
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The new legislation places particular emphasis on energy conservation.
special/particular interest
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Natural history was a special interest of his.
special/particular mention
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Mrs. McMillan deserves particular mention for all her hard work.
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■ NOUN
area
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The other chapter on a particular area of policy deals with education.
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Tell her you have already done some research on it but have some questions about a particular area .
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Over-familiarity with a particular area may lead to an assumption that others have the same depth of knowledge.
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These are aquariums which represent as accurately as possible a section of aquatic life in a particular area .
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He would have to make a circuit of the building, they'd insisted the centre was in this particular area .
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When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does.
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You can really only make your decision to go netting in a particular area that same day.
aspect
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I will refer briefly to two particular aspects of his submissions.
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Every Tuesday a guest speaker from the community came in to talk about a particular aspect of the law.
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They also run evening classes from time to time, specialising in a particular aspect of Machine Knitting.
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A particular aspect of malleability is the tractability of identity.
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Each came separately to look at particular aspects of the collections and the project, then there were several group sessions.
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Li is manifested as both one thing and many parts-that is, having a universal as well as a particular aspect .
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When they are written read them carefully, occasionally commenting on some particular aspect .
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Women can love their children but not like particular aspects of mothering or specific developmental stages.
attention
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Gold and silver have attracted particular attention because they were used to make prestige items such as jewellery and regalia.
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He was known to give five-hour speeches, so particular attention was given to this detail.
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The problem of Chambers demands very particular attention .
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This relatively minor fact was discussed with particular attention .
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Cancer rates according to type of antihypertensive treatment are reported, with particular attention being paid to atenolol.
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However, it is clear that the investigators will pay particular attention to weather data.
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You should pay particular attention to marked information structures in the third paragraph.
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After cleansing, apply a light, non-greasy body lotion, paying particular attention to any dry areas.
case
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In almost every case relating to children - and certainly in this particular case - circumstances change, often frequently.
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In order to understand this rule, it helps to examine a particular case .
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Suppose, in a particular case , 25 are required.
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In this particular case Abraham is at a very distinct disadvantage.
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That's the judge's role and it's a role that the judge discharged in that particular case .
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In this particular case it would be gradually, over 25 years from the date of inception.
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Tens of thousands of Amnesty members and supporters in over 100 countries will be writing letters to governments about these particular cases .
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First, it has led to doubts as to the precise legal obligations of a doctor in a particular case .
circumstances
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Then return refreshed with added zest and sparkle to participate in the particular circumstances which you have prepared for and chosen.
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Each individual will want to discuss their own particular circumstances .
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This would be true whatever the particular circumstances which produced the feminist response.
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For example, some of the restrictions on the type of advice we can provide in particular circumstances are removed.
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Because the individual organisms vary, some are bound to be better able to survive in particular circumstances than others.
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Depending on the particular circumstances , the use of legal discretion was creative.
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Draft the advertisement according to the particular circumstances of the business to be sold.
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List the particular circumstances which cause frustration and stressful tension to mount.
concern
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My particular concern is the very ends of the fingers - or, the nails.
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One particular concern related to public transportation.
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The gault clay woodlands in mid-Kent are of particular concern .
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Of particular concern to the industry is the company's agreement to more closely monitor gun distribution.
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Social services departments have a particular concern to research into needs on a more systematic basis.
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In Austin, dependant care issues are a particular concern .
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There's particular concern over increasing domestic needs in the booming Swindon area.
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Sometimes knowledge of the members of the review team will suggest particular concerns and personal biases.
form
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Being able to know what is required and when to use particular forms of language is an important skill.
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Leukaemia funds Last year's Leukaemia Marathon raised a magnificent £5,500 for research into this particular form of cancer.
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Their argument depends on a notion of society as a system which is dominated by particular forms of social and economic organization.
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Overall, it is a handy reference text and well constructed guide to this particular form of research.
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Psychological professions exert a particular form of class discrimination against women.
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For example, early marriage has been noted as being associated with particular forms of abuse and neglect.
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Precisely what particular forms symbolized is often in doubt.
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The powers and authorities were understood to have particular forms in the first century.
group
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Not surprisingly, in this particular group , a least half wrote on issues related to product versus customer service.
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The make-up of any one particular group merits some consideration.
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Secondly, they serve all members of society rather than particular groups .
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If something is done that benefits a particular group then that group is being bribed or bought off.
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In addition to the overall distributional impact of policy, we may be concerned with the effect on particular groups of individuals.
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Our society is multicultural and one particular group is undeniably underachieving - black children.
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It is not always easy to predict just what problems a particular group of learners is likely to have with any materials.
importance
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Goebbels controlled the media and attached particular importance to cinema.
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This has particular importance in relation to ethnic minorities.
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The involvement of children is of particular importance .
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Tourism is also of particular importance in some regions and may dominate the local economy.
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Two items - the type of contract and the records kept - are of particular importance .
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Of particular importance is the effect that deforestation has on tropical soils.
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Muriel was favoured by all three partners, but the comments of her present employer turned out to be of particular importance .
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This last factor is of particular importance .
interest
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This question is of particular interest in a region like Northern Ireland, where unemployment is now over 20%.
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This feature is of particular interest if a radical revision is suggested by the evaluation.
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Of particular interest is the construction of maps showing the expected annual amounts of damage for gridded flood-prone areas.
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The Advocate, based in Los Angeles, is a biweekly news magazine covering stories of particular interest to homosexuals.
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Of particular interest are genes that reduce the amount of a substance called lignin, or that weaken lignin's chemical structure.
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He had a particular interest in works by contemporary artists and was a pioneer in the development of artist-in-residence programs.
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This will be of particular interest to you when sites within your District area are being considered.
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The house used by the kidnappers was of particular interest .
issue
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However, both the ideas and the practice have changed as experience has accumulated, with two particular issues dominating the debate.
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Overall, different people, as members of many different groups, prevail on particular issues .
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The overall aim was to identify the most appropriate law to govern a particular issue .
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Instead, particular issues raised by these internal documents will be addressed in separate submissions by the affected companies.
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There is little evidence to suggest voters voting for a particular party because of its stand on a particular issue .
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This particular issue illustrates the previous point about the probability of mispricing the issue.
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The double standards and hypocrisy surrounding this particular issue are incredible.
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A tribunal is given authority to decide upon a particular issue .
kind
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Knowledge is therefore the result of a mode of production, and the product of a particular kind of practice.
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Years ago we used to do a particular kind of experiment in the psychology laboratories.
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But it is competence of a particular kind .
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The structure of a neural network allows it to be good at particular kinds of learning.
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The flux, the flow, the drifting balance of our days needs a particular kind of patience.
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It is intended to yield 1 if the image on the retina is of a particular kind .
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Once a particular kind of stone was recognized as precious it tended to remain so.
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But the political and ideological pressures that foster this particular kind of self-deception are stronger than I can remember.
need
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The staff of the receiving primary school would be alerted to the child's particular needs .
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Fathers should customize each to their own particular needs and situation.
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These can all be customised to suit your particular needs .
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Second, people feel that central government is remote from their particular needs .
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The biggest shoppers, the thrifts, often had a very particular need .
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The differences, where there are any, will be dictated by the target group of learners and their particular needs .
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The session is discussed beforehand with the student so that her particular needs are met.
point
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This survey data is cross-section data taken from a sample of households at a particular point in time.
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A conventional lens maps each light ray to a particular point on an image plane.
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A simple method for remembering the names of the three areas is to associate them with a particular point of the body.
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One particular point of the line is labelled 0 and another is labelled 1.
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It consists of the key marketing variables that are offered to a market at a particular point in time.
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Two particular points may be made about offences of physical violation.
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I shall draw the hon. and learned Gentleman's particular point to my right hon. Friend's attention.
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A camera always looks at a scene from a particular point of view.
problem
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My particular problems were probably simply not noticed; so nobody talked about them.
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Because knowledge is distributed, the system uses many connections to retrieve solutions to particular problems .
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As far as we can tell, the use of antibiotics in agriculture has not directly caused these particular problems .
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Long-lived trees face a particular problem because their parasites have time to adapt to their genetic defenses-to evolve.
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Firstly, we were able to pinpoint a particular problem that arose only in the context of a complete system.
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Each of the knuckleheads has his own particular problem .
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The Liverpool Coastguard say there were particular problems on Saturday because some rafts were fighting against the tide.
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The risk management service will cover particular problems such as legislation, contamination, production disruption, quality standards and health and safety.
purpose
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Further, the buyer must have made known to the seller the particular purpose for which he was buying the goods.
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It never occurred to me that these two hard chairs were kept for a particular purpose .
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Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose .
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It is up to the practitioner to decide which stance is best suited to a particular purpose .
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The point here is that institutions are useful only if they have been designed to achieve a particular purpose .
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The particular purpose is to assess the effects of private and State employment strategies upon the town's population and culture.
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Word order would then not be needed for this particular purpose of role assignment.
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Special classification schemes are generally devised for a particular purpose and are to be found in the following environments: 1.
reason
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There is no particular reason why input should be so restricted.
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For no particular reason , we shall start with an examination of $ 5.
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Finally there was the unrecognizable specialist equipment, acquired for some particular reason or other, but whose purpose was not apparent.
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There seems no particular reason to ascribe economic rationality to one group and not the other.
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They had no particular reason to like Sutton.
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There is no particular reason to believe that this was caused merely by the newer properties being of higher value.
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For no particular reason he felt more alert and in control.
reference
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I think of this with particular reference to the local community and the wider community.
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This looks at the way in which exchanges manage technology with particular reference to the Deutsche Terminborse and London's Liffe.
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Discusses the conflicting arguments for and against sustainable development, with particular reference to architecture.
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Philosophical theology with particular reference to Tillich.
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Reviews research on attitudes and talk to older people, with particular reference to the concepts of status and solidarity.
situation
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The exact requirements of natural justice can vary depending on the particular situation .
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Being aware of specific emotions gives you valuable information about yourself and how to proceed in particular situations .
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Some such concept is required to explain why different individuals reach different solutions in diagnosing and providing remedies for particular situations .
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High Machs are better able to adapt their tactics to the particular Situation .
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This particular situation will be discussed later in Section 20.2.
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Camus sets up a distance from his protagonist develop an existentialist understanding of reality in a concrete, particular situation .
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Animacy is, however, only one of the factors which influences selection of a passive form to describe a particular situation .
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That depends on the facts of the particular situation .
time
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As well as changes in technique, market conditions at any particular time will, of course, affect the demand for labour.
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Why was the witch hunt of the l9S0s mobilized at that particular time ?
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The starting position is that of eligibility set at a particular time .
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It is obvious that reference to the proposal has been casual if not intense at particular times .
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Dowsing depends on the interaction between the person and the site at a particular time .
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It is not satisfactory where a significant separate item of loss is incurred at a particular time .
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Finally, there are a number of factors leading to an increase in expenditure that may affect local authorities at particular times .
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The first of these measured generalized interest in politics, the others measured interest in politics at particular times . 5.
type
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Commentators who are too committed to particular types of action limit their appeal.
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What ties are there between this particular type of school performance and family relationships?
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Certain religions may prohibit particular types of food, alcoholic drink or restrict dress.
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The shorter ones among them generally limit themselves to praise-affirmations but do not as yet have any particular type of conclusion.
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And the way that, say, television news addresses you is as a particular type of person.
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Examination of just a few of these underlines the channelling and legitimating role which law plays in particular types of commercial activity.
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Told to find a particular type of tree, he would do that too, ignoring other kinds of shrubbery.
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Typology is the study of the development of particular types of artefact over a period of time.
way
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These examples show clearly that the human genetic code does not contain specific instructions to behave in a particular way .
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But they have done it in a 81 very particular way .
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Others are management schemes where farmers are persuaded to treat the land in a particular way .
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It's important that the calculation is done in a particular way , that it is managed and owned by the department.
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Very often the examiner will have worded it in a particular way in order to enable you to show a little originality of treatment.
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Ideas are organisations of information that the human mind chooses to put together in a particular way .
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Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time?
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Do vowel and consonant sounds pattern or cluster in particular ways ?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Each class will focus on one particular aspect of American culture.
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I'm looking for a particular book on Asian art.
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I didn't have any particular plan in mind.
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Is there a particular type of car that you are looking for?
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Is there any particular reason why you want to go back to Japan?
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The lights were arranged to give a particular effect.
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This particular part of Idaho is especially beautiful.
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This discovery is of particular interest to scientists studying the origins of the universe.
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Was there any particular reason why he quit?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And his particular death is irrelevant against a million years of human life, insignificant outside human perception.
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As we know, students in London have particular problems because of the high cost of accommodation.
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He or she can discuss the possibilities and may have some good reasons for steering your child in a particular direction.
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However, tenured teachers do not have a right either to a particular position in a school district or to indefinite employment.
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I turned in a particular moment, and I saw wolves.
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In this constellation, the Right identifies housing as of particular significance.
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Margaret has been teaching in that particular home for five years.
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Though the menus make provision for it, I could not get the printout options to work on my particular hardware.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
further
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The further particulars given must incorporate the request or order.
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The procedure for the obtaining and giving of further particulars of defence is the same as appertains in relation to further particulars of claim.
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As regards the registration of further particulars a number of points need to be emphasised.
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For further particulars and application forms, please contact the Centre as soon as possible by letter or telephone.
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Potential applicants are encouraged to apply for further particulars .
■ VERB
contain
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This contains the particulars , site plans and photographs of the properties and freehold and leasehold sites included in the sale.
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On 23 April the second defendant took a letter to the plaintiff containing particulars of this offer by Mr. Perot for Caliban.
give
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Let me give you my particulars .
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The application must give the particulars specified in the rule.
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Dad gave particulars of his own complaint.
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What the Government is trying to do is to persuade the estate agents that they shouldn't give false particulars at all.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Above all these particulars hovered one central fact: the Church had changed.
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Bishop Corrada, in particular , seemed willing to believe false and easily refuted accusations against the priests at Holy Trinity.
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I did notice that Eva's absorption in the particulars of Dad's life had waned.
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If counsel settled the pleading for further and better particulars, his name should appear at the end.
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Listing particulars contain detailed information about the issuing company, its securities and certain future issues.
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The particulars of this bishop are a union of tales.
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They reject individual justice, in favour of grand statements that brush aside particulars.