1.   Once you have tasted life in southern California, it takes a peculiar kind of masochism to return to a British winter.

2.   Weaver shows, for example, that a certain peculiar kind of process is occurring when public enterprise objectives are being determined.

3.   Among the weirder things at work here is the peculiar kind of gratification Abacha has managed to derive from these developments.

4.   Another impediment was the peculiar kind of amnesia that settles in after disasters, said Eric Evenson, the New Jersey district chief for the U.S. Geological Survey.

5.   Many of the foot soldiers come back with a peculiar kind of war story.

6.   Some peculiar kind of solar activity can adversely affect communications, satellites and power grids.

7.   The British philosopher Isaiah Berlin was knighted during his lifetime, but since his death a year ago he has achieved a peculiar kind of intellectual sainthood.

8.   The result was a peculiar kind of metacomposition, an impressionist portrait of intertwining tastes and talents.

9.   Writers of modern South Africa have been faced with a peculiar kind of challenge.