Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] a certain [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hmmmm , at the risk of seeming boring and conservative , I have to say that I have a certain amount of sympathy with Wilko over this one . |
| 2 | Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly . |
| 3 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 4 | But there is a major flaw that was pointed out when we had our last discussion about counting that alongside other factors , that you do a certain amount of work dependent on what your current staffing levels are . |
| 5 | The need for arousal thought well should I be absolutely calm when I 'm giving a presentation but I never am so is it right and now understanding that you need a certain level of arousal to be able to perform at all is is satisfying for me because at least I understand the situation now and able to work with it rather than against it . |
| 6 | ( To say that something has a certain position is to say how it is related spatially to other things . |
| 7 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 8 | Although the collusion of Roger-Bernard in Saisset 's alleged fantasies was strenuously denied , the mere existence of the charges suggests that they carried a certain credibility . |
| 9 | But for all that they had a certain passion . |
| 10 | The fascination of these closed communities and hemmed-in lives , that recur in my work , is that they breed a certain ignorance , can be the breeding ground for very extreme , absurd emotional releases . ’ |
| 11 | As suggested by one formidable opponent of the views in question ( also the author of the objection having to do with understanding Chinese ) we do not so understand consciousness that we can believe that it must be possessed by a set of water pipes , paper clips , and old beer cans , provided that they instantiate a certain programme . |
| 12 | They are too old to be worried about the physical changes that have taken place in them , but I also see that they share a certain self-regard , a comfort which — I hazard a speculation — is robbed from old people in our cities . |
| 13 | There are individuals within organisations who have power by virtue of the fact that they occupy a certain position within the organisational structure . |
| 14 | One could only say of an electron encircling the hydrogen nucleus that it had a certain probability of being found here and a certain probability of being found there . |
| 15 | — ‘ Non , ’ Alyssia said , mastering the French word and deciding that it had a certain ring to it when used in conversation with this particular woman . |
| 16 | One can say that the whole material universe has a certain colour , but not that it has a certain position . |
| 17 | For example , needs to account for why if the sentence P and Q is true , then so is the sentence Q and in order to do that it assigns a certain structure , for example as on the handout in my assigned structure and brackets P Q. Erm anyway erm it just has and has a separate particle operating on two distinct sentences that are not ordered syntax needs to account for the well-formedness of the structure , sorry P and Q. The ill-formedness of P Q and the similar grouping of and with or that is in English between sentences and where you can find one and find another but not with , not you do n't say John loves Mary not Peter loves Jill . |
| 18 | And indeed , he does give an account of the structure of the complex whole , and argues that it awards a certain primacy to economic practice ‘ in the last instance , . |
| 19 | And , to the extent that it comprises a certain body of knowledge and a certain set of principles for systematic enquiry , any theory of literature is likely to establish the study of literature as a science . |
| 20 | The writing on a carton of orange juice may tell you that it contains a certain amount of vitamin C — but did you know that the vitamin C content starts to decrease from the moment the carton is opened ? |
| 21 | ‘ It was evident to me that he believed a certain act of self-denial was required of him . |
| 22 | Gaily 's quiet defence had always been that he liked a certain monotony . |
| 23 | Certainly MacDonald 's international fame was greater than Baldwin 's , and there is some evidence that he maintained a certain touch for foreign affairs well after he had lost it domestically . |
| 24 | In bureaucratic organizations the latter notion ultimately leads to situations in which a man can be called a ‘ manager ’ solely on the grounds that he supervises a certain number of people , and without regard to the degree of judgement or decision-making responsibility such supervision requires . |