Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [art] certain [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | like on i well no , no , you have to , you the net has to fall over a certain part of the creature . |
| 2 | If , to be a successful physicist , one has to conform to a certain code of behaviour , what are the implications for women who , by definition , do not conform to our conventional ideal of ‘ physicist ’ ? |
| 3 | The studies of Ernst Engel in the nineteenth century , led to the conclusion that after income has risen beyond a certain level , there is a decrease in the percentage of total income that is spent on food . |
| 4 | The only way to move is by proving beyond all reasonable doubt that your home address has moved over a certain distance , and that the club you wish to join is considerably closer to your new address . |
| 5 | For many on the Left , the European Economic Community has appealed to a certain brand of internationalism which found expression in hostility to the nation state . |
| 6 | If a neutral event has occurred within a certain time of an already important event , if it was of a certain category and if another of the same category had not been interposed between it and the important event , then that event itself acquires significance for the animal . |
| 7 | David Byrne wrote the perfect introduction to Lynne Cohen 's book , which needs to be a book because the evidence has to accumulate to a certain point to become interesting ( and unforgettable ) : " The photos are probably indistinguishable from those used in annual reports , medical textbooks , and catalogues of technical supplies . |
| 8 | This concentration , upon the value aspects , can be misleading , and in fact has led to a certain neglect by many Marxists of the material , use-value , aspects of reproduction and the centrality of this use-value in the reproduction schema . |
| 9 | Leonard has admitted to a certain indifference to these studies , particularly his grasp of Hebrew with its strange characters and back-to-front writing ( with which he grew up ) . |
| 10 | Why , d' ya get , do you have to retire at a certain time ? |
| 11 | Aches and pains sometimes ease up when the menopause is over but many of us will have to settle for a certain amount of back pain , headaches and limited movement from now on . |
| 12 | It could have led to a certain amount of resentment , particularly when the material benefits flowed in for Hannah . |
| 13 | We do n't have to get to a certain stage of holiness . |
| 14 | We do n't have to get to a certain stage of sinlessness , before God will give to us the Holy Spirit . |
| 15 | When I back there I am sure I will have changed to a certain extent and I hope it will have helped to develop my managerial skills . ’ |
| 16 | Any one of the above features could result in a person being labelled schizophrenic , providing some other criteria are met , such as the symptoms having lasted for a certain length of time . |
| 17 | Certainly , a residence requirement which consisted of a requirement to have resided for a certain time in the country before a self-employed occupation could be taken up would involve covert discrimination , because it would be satisfied virtually automatically by nationals and would therefore affect nationals of other member states , if not exclusively , at least chiefly . |
| 18 | The attitude of Patullo , a conventional , observant , middle-class intellectual , is a familiar one , and so is his ambiguous attitude to this kind of reading , expressed in a later comment on the unexpected heroism of the man he had regarded with a certain scorn : |
| 19 | The Finance Act 1969 provided , in effect , that on the death of a beneficiary what in 1974 became capital transfer tax , and by the Finance Act 1986 inheritance tax , should be payable upon the proportion of the capital which corresponded to the proportion of the income which the deceased had received within a certain period before his death ( usually seven years ) . |
| 20 | So , if you 've dreamed of a certain colour or pattern , you 'd be very unlucky not to find it in the Stoddard Templeton range . |
| 21 | They often agree to intercourse because they feel they must or they think they 've got to a certain age where they have to do it . |
| 22 | The times had called for a certain mood but it was the genius of American cinema that it could harness the talents of actors and actresses whose every word and gesture rooted the films in the society for which they had been produced . |
| 23 | I 've played in a certain town that makes linoleum where the audience did not laugh once . |
| 24 | If anyone asked him what had happened on a certain occasion he was n't able to tell them right off because he never put his memories into words . |
| 25 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |
| 26 | ‘ We 're finding that people who 've specialised in a certain field such as financial services or entertainment are much more marketable than people who are more generalist in their work experience , ’ says Ms Ogden . |
| 27 | For Macpherson everything about the general run of American movies ‘ belonged to the 1910 period ’ when the industry had alighted on a certain type of narrative film as being most suitable for its mass audience . |
| 28 | ‘ War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions , when they have developed to a certain stage , between classes , nations , states , or political groups , and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes . ’ |
| 29 | If you are an England player you have to behave in a certain way . ’ |
| 30 | The true explanation of title by [ adverse possession ] … seems to me to be that man , like a tree in a cleft rock , gradually shapes his roots to his surroundings , and when the roots have grown to a certain size , ca n't be displaced without cutting at his life . |