Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] a certain [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It also necessitates a certain amount of trial-and-error , but flight sim aficionados are sure to love it .
2 It also reduces a certain amount of heat loss , as well as cutting down traffic noise .
3 As an unreconstructed communist regime , it also has a certain rarity value to China 's own communist old-timers .
4 It also implies a certain degree of homogeneity in study methods .
5 Certainly , but there was a particular status to be gained by the family in employing so many ; it also gave a certain degree of importance to the corpse itself .
6 One of the first things that struck troops fresh to the Verdun battlefield was the fearful stench of putrefaction ; ‘ so disgusting that it almost gives a certain charm to the odour of gas shells ’ .
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