Example sentences of "[pers pn] has 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 He has a certain reputation in Hebron ( though not as much as the exaggerated courtesy of verse 6 would suggest ) , but no political power .
3 Because he does not know other countries ' systems or customs , he has a certain narrowness of thinking , which we Europeans do not have , of course .
4 But although Ralph 's business is being hit by the dispute , he has a certain amount of sympathy for his French counterparts .
5 It 's an attractive vision , up to a point , and it has a certain reality .
6 But it has a certain logic .
7 It has a certain notoriety for its garlic-scented foliage , but anyone with a taste for good food will definitely find it rather pleasant !
8 Depending on how Dave makes this greeting , it has a certain meaning .
9 One can say that the whole material universe has a certain colour , but not that it has a certain position .
10 The authority of civil association is an endowment which is not traceable to any particular source and which lies only in ‘ continuous acknowledgement ’ based not on acts of obedience ‘ but in the continuous recognition of the obligation to subscribe to its prescriptions because it has a certain shape ’ .
11 It has a certain softness and richness , ’ he concluded , ‘ which is both its charm and its danger . ’
12 This makes no biological sense , of course , but it has a certain psychological validity , in that the significance to most members of our society of the difference between , say , a thrush and a blackbird is roughly comparable to that between a collie and a spaniel .
13 If one takes this as a statement obliquely concerning the Marxist political project , it has a certain validity , in that it brings out the difference between Marxism and ‘ meritocratic ’ , or social-democratic notions of ‘ equality of opportunity ’ : the Marxist project is not merely to allow access to the privileged classes for the most ‘ able ’ individuals from all sections of society , but to transform the class structure ( to eliminate private possession of the major means of production and hierarchical management , and to institute a democratically socialised appropriation ) .
14 It has a certain store of energy .
15 Yes we we envisaged that that bottle it it it has a certain sort of cache about it so we we we expected that that er a lot of sales for that eventually would go through the on trade and er obviously if it 's on trade then er the thing is automatically re-collectable and recyclable .
16 It has a certain character , you must admit . ’
17 A group is coherent in so far as it has a certain continuity in its consciousness , its organisation and its action ; but its coherence also implies that its members do actually support one another in practical ways that are consistent with the objectives of the group .
18 Kicks , punches and elbow strikes can all be directed at the ball , and because it has a certain amount of give in it , practitioners can get a more or less accurate feeling of how a punch or kick will feel against a human body .
19 And er , so it 's , it 's an attempt to work backwards , but it has a certain justification in analytic technique .
20 declared for people who are buying houses and etcetera and it has a certain statutory status but it but it can be looked at again clearly .
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