Example sentences of "[adv] a certain [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At such a time , sumptuary laws may be passed which forbid the use of particular goods to those who are deemed to be below a certain station in life ( e.g. Braudel 1981 : 311 ; Mukerji 1983 : 179–82 ; Sennett 1976 ) , a form of regulation common to a large range of societies ( e.g. Srinivas 1966 : 16 ) , which may be associated with limited spheres of exchange ( e.g. Douglas 1967 , ; Salisbury 1962 ) , and restrictions on mercantile practices . |
| 2 | If a stimulus is below a certain intensity , the threshold , no impulse is set off along the fibre . |
| 3 | If Britain guarantees that the Hong Kong government 's financial reserves will be above a certain level come 1997 , and if the airport 's costs are below a certain level , and if Hong Kong neither raises taxes nor issues debt to pay for the airport , and if China has a say not just on the airport but also on other franchises Hong Kong grants and , come to think of it , on other ‘ important ’ matters — if all that is conceded , then Hong Kong can have its airport . |
| 4 | The Department of Health and Social Security are concerned that all elderly people who are in need should receive the appropriate help to which they are entitled , and the visiting officers are always pleased to explain what other benefits a successful claimant may have automatically , but even if a supplementary pension or allowance is not granted , if their income is below a certain level some of the extra benefits such as free dentures , spectacles , hospital fares , and rate rebates ( this last is not usually granted to those on supplementary pensions ) may be available to them . |
| 5 | While many of these benefits are ‘ means-tested ’ , in other words are only given to people whose income is below a certain level , some , such as disability living allowance , are not dependent on how poor or how wealthy you are . |
| 6 | Income support is available for people of 18 yrs or over whose incomes are below a certain level and who are not working 16hrs or more a week . |
| 7 | teaching-machine-style programs with perhaps a certain degree of branching , and leading to interactive video ; |
| 8 | The reappearance , first and most immediately , of Eanfrith and subsequently of Oswald in Bernician territory at so crucial a moment in the history of the northern Angles could imply military assistance for them from the Picts or the Scots or both and even perhaps a certain ability to act in concert with the British king , Cadwallon . |
| 9 | Perhaps a certain sensitivity on this question inspired his particularly detailed instructions to Orjonikidze on how the Georgians were to be treated ; the intelligentsia were to be offered particular concessions , and the Mensheviks to be invited to participate — ‘ avoid any mechanism copying the Russian pattern … bigger concessions to all the petty bourgeois elements ’ . |
| 10 | Perhaps a certain amount for each plant could be decided upon and gradually the amount needed can be estimated by the children . |
| 11 | Unless perhaps a certain period has already elapsed since that episode , if indeed it occurred . |
| 12 | Perhaps a certain detachment from puritan enthusiasm , an insistence on moderation and toleration on religious issues , defined the mentality that most often coincided with an interest in science in seventeenth-century England . |
| 13 | er There is obviously a certain party atmosphere at Conferences , it 's the one big chance of the year for many many hard-working activists to get together and share ideas , it does engender er a certain amount of frivolity er around the edges , so we 'll see some of that , but we do n't go in for this cult of leadership which the other parties do , you wo n't see any manufactured longstanding ovations for er leaders . |
| 14 | So a certain weariness is only to be expected . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm always attracted to the same swirling motif , so a certain harmony is inevitable . |
| 16 | On the back of each barrack room door was a plan of how our lockers should look : trousers , shirts , socks , pants , vests and everything else had to be sucked in a certain order , and folded exactly thirty-five centimetres square . |
| 17 | The heavy , crude outlines are now no longer broken and sporadic as they were in some of his most characteristically Fauve works , and every shape is carefully and fully outlined ; only a certain emphasis on the oval forms of the foliage , and a few touches of arbitrary colour retain any flavour of Fauvism . |
| 18 | Of course , one cornerstone of this model of the structure of heroin ‘ epidemics ’ is the questionable assumption that only a certain proportion of the population are likely to take heroin , the corollary assumption being that the ‘ epidemic ’ must have a life cycle because it will eventually exhaust the pool of potential heroin users . |
| 19 | A demand is made , often not explicit to the child ( and not always to the experimenter either ) , to which only a certain response is acceptable . |
| 20 | The procedure followed ensured that only a certain response would disambiguate the message . |
| 21 | A vicar was guaranteed the vicarage but received only a certain portion of the ecclesiastical income . |
| 22 | The proposed discount will go only a certain way towards doing what is needful . |
| 23 | But an element of rationing can override this tendency : when people know that their budgets will stand only a certain level of instalment payment , that forces them into longer repayment schedules than they would otherwise choose . |
| 24 | Difficulties only arise when dieters get it into their heads that only a certain source of protein is acceptable and therefore restrict the overall range . |
| 25 | There are only about one hundred different kinds of atoms in the Universe , each kind known as an element ; and we know that this is the case because we know the fundamental laws of chemistry that determine the structure of atoms , and can see that only a certain number of structures are theoretically possible . |
| 26 | A particular exercise should be repeated only a certain number of times during any one session , otherwise , the dog will become bored . |
| 27 | And , of course , there are only a certain number of people you can approach with that request . |
| 28 | Only a certain number of eggs can be incubated efficiently , and each female in the group tries to ensure that those eggs are hers . |
| 29 | There are only a certain number of promotional fares available on each flight , so booking well ahead is the best means of securing a seat . |
| 30 | She knew they had different fathers and she knew that in each case there was only a certain number of possibilities , but beyond that all was obscure . |