Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 2 | ‘ I believe , ’ he said , ‘ that I can obtain you a position as reader in a publishing house in which I have a certain interest . |
| 3 | ‘ He is my brother-in-law and because of that , I have a certain fondness for him . |
| 4 | When I say , ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ , am I saying that I have a certain Lockean visual sensation — that is , that the figure appears to me , in a non-concept-dependent sense of ‘ appears ’ , in a certain way — which I have found I always have when I am led by the accompanying text to apply the figure in a certain way ? |
| 5 | I have a certain nostalgic respect for that kind of 1970s ' ultra-Leftist-womanist impossibilism , but for me it has two major problems . |
| 6 | I have a certain degree of sympathy for men because I think you have to take into consideration that men are n't given enough opportunity to feel se , er sympathetic , maybe again is the wrong word |
| 7 | Remember , I have a certain position … ’ |
| 8 | So I have a certain interest , you could say a certain responsibility . " |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I have a certain procedure and you have to keep within that parameter . |
| 12 | Though , you know , there 's a sense in which we can use , we we 're a , we gave it in you to have a certain amount of license , and we can use illustrations just as we would use modern illustrations to describe spiritual truths and to use them to illustrate the gospel . |
| 13 | ‘ In Kylie 's case , she had a certain spark , that something extra . |
| 14 | ‘ But she had a certain something which men did find appealing . |
| 15 | Esther was no beauty , but she had a certain handsomeness about her , a particular wickedness he had not seen in other women . |
| 16 | " She had a certain style about her , " she says . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There was er y you had er you had a certain amount to make every day . |
| 19 | It 's so hard to express how being jilted by a lover or something makes you feel without sounding … you write best when you have a certain objectivity … when your writing is both the passenger and the driver . ’ |
| 20 | We may say to the diviner ‘ You mean ’ you have learnt that when you have a certain feeling of strain in your hands , then water is usually to be found so many feet under the ground ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Ethnic clothing has become classic — once you have a certain skirt or blouse you can go on wearing it and never have to buy another . |
| 22 | Now that is a word you seldom come across in England , but away up in the Highlands and Islands being " fey " means that you have a certain sixth sense — you are the seventh son of a seventh son , or whatever the drama is on that score . |
| 23 | In the typical scenario erm you have the parents as villains of the peace , you have the children or the child as being abused , you have ah typically in the er as it were the stereotypical scenario , you have the father doing the abuse , you have a certain amount of responsibility pointed at the mother . |
| 24 | The influence is there but I do n't think it will creep its way into the songwriting because with that we have a certain focus . |
| 25 | So we , we have a certain amount of flexibility in there . |
| 26 | ‘ We have a certain operation ahead of us and we would not like to disclose it to the press , ’ team leader Nikita Smidovitch said in Manama last night , hours before a UN plane was to fly to Baghdad . |
| 27 | They had a certain prestige within the neighbourhood and influence within the world of football was part of this process of ‘ making good ’ . |
| 28 | They had a certain similarity , all of them , and they all lacked something , though most were very beautiful to look at . |
| 29 | But for all that they had a certain passion . |
| 30 | Villains they might be , but they had a certain code of practice and the rule was that you looked after your own kind . |