Example sentences of "[conj] [art] certain [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer a rock band , where a certain stiffness in the limbs is a virtue , but not yet virtuoso jazzers , The Style Council are stuck at that most useless of levels — semi-fluency . |
| 2 | He did not put on his sword , for no weapons were permitted at such occasions , though Ratagan had told him a gory tale of a banquet where a certain disagreement had been settled with eating knives , which the victors had subsequently continued eating with . |
| 3 | Performance was relatively weaker with small scale acoustic recital and chamber material where a certain hardness sometimes intruded . |
| 4 | A distinction is made between sales negotiations , where a certain amount of bargaining may take place , and pure selling , where the salesman is given no freedom to bargain . |
| 5 | Is a certain situation or a certain person tempting you to eat the things you do not really want ? |
| 6 | If the sound is right for a certain combination of musicians , or a certain style of music , then obviously you play better , but I do n't think there are very many people who have their sound , and go from one band to another just using that sound . |
| 7 | But in other modes of production some external factor is needed to legitimate this arrangement ; and Balibar claims that this is why certain political conditions , or a certain kinship structure , may be represented as a feature of the natural order of things , rather than being regarded as implied by a mode of production . |
| 8 | Pets which are kept in school can reinforce this interest and there are many incidental mathematical experiences involved in their care — water containers may be filled and emptied , more water may be needed , or a certain number of leaves may be fed to the pet and so on . |
| 9 | That is , the charterer lets the vessel or part of the vessel ( space charters ) for a fixed term ( time charter ) , or a certain number of trips or for a voyage to transport a designated cargo ( voyage charter ) . |
| 10 | Does this mean that we will understand schizophrenia if we know that it often occurs in people when a certain ion channel or a certain enzyme is damaged ? |
| 11 | Might it be , for example , that members of a particular religion are more likely to be of a certain age , or a certain class , and if these variables are taken into account ( ‘ held constant ’ ) does the relationship still look the same ? |
| 12 | Finally , the view of style as manner : I mean by ‘ manner ’ the way in which a text , or an author 's work as a whole , or the work of a group of writers , or even a period of literature , may be distinguished by typical patterns of language-use , a repeated preference , for instance , for a certain kind of construction or a certain class of word . |
| 13 | And although a certain number of eager thirty-something listeners will scan the radio dial in search of Mr Branson 's yuppie rock , more will discover the channel gradually , perhaps by accident . |
| 14 | Crunch exhibits exactly that , although a certain amount of brittleness does get in the way of the smooth , valve-based sound I tend to prefer . |
| 15 | Raglan seams can be designed with the same number of rows on both the armholes and body pieces if required ( so that patterns , stripes , decorative decreasings and so on , will match up at the seams ) , although a certain amount of trial and error with various measurements is necessary to achieve this . |
| 16 | Thus , Storr acknowledges that a certain kind of original genius is inseparable from the schizoid ( i.e. schizophrenic-like ) personality structure , quoting Kafka , among writers , as a particular example . |
| 17 | They may feel that a certain kind of relationship between the legislature and the executive is important ; or that the judicature should have a certain guaranteed degree of independence of the legislature and executive . |
| 18 | Until you know that a certain person is going to be a good language helper , it is best to engage him/her for a day or a week at a time . |
| 19 | Well shall I tell you that a certain member of the er medical staff , you know they 've got bollards where the staff can put their cars in a certain place , and one member of the staff came out and said , please remove your car it 's in the staff parking part , the person said , yes I even had to move the bollard . |
| 20 | If then his actions simply accorded with what was the convention of his society , this was not because he had so to act , or failed to see that a certain convention was socially limited . |
| 21 | The same applies to the situation between nations : inequalities between developed countries have not declined but this does not necessarily mean wholesale rejection of the basic claims that a certain level of education is a necessary prerequisite to industrialisation . |
| 22 | In another store one sales assistant stopped short of calling me stupid when I commented that a certain guitar was n't to my taste and a bit cheap-looking . |
| 23 | To say that a certain village enjoys a certain level of accessibility is to summarize much too crudely the position of the middle-class person in a two-car household and the elderly person without a car because , as Moseley ( 1979a ) so correctly points out , these neighbours are effectively living in different worlds in terms of mobility . |
| 24 | The sibilance of his whispering voice and the recollection that a certain man had been found with his throat cut , turned Dolly rigid in the bed . |
| 25 | " I shall explain that a certain man was mad for me , and was plaguing me to run away with him . |
| 26 | They can declare that a certain day shall be a national holiday , that a certain organization shall have legal personality , that a person shall be granted citizenship or shall be divorced or excommunicated , that certain land shall be dedicated to the public , or that some people shall have certain rights , and much else . |
| 27 | People often say that a certain noise gets louder at night , even though its measured level does not alter ; this is because , at night , the level of the background noise is generally lower than it is during the day , During the recession , people near once noisy factories started to appreciate the quiet . |
| 28 | It is possible for the Secretary of State to direct that a certain category of development should be referred to him if local planning authorities are minded to grant permission . |
| 29 | Or counsel may suggest , again with the very greatest respect , that a certain decision may perhaps be reconsidered if the point arises again before a court having power to overrule it ; meanwhile , it can be distinguished on the facts before the present court . |
| 30 | It does n't seem relevant to describe those times ; but also , as the named author of this book , I am aware that a certain decorum is required . |