Example sentences of "have a certain amount [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of this chapter , however , is not to suggest clever ways of reducing your liability — although in fact almost everyone has a certain amount of scope to do so without in any way cheating on the system . |
| 2 | But Prince Adam has a certain amount of clout , as he has recently brought off a resounding coup and made a grand gesture . |
| 3 | and it implies that any institution which serves as a channel for the articulation and aggregation of group interest in centre-periphery relations has a certain amount of autonomy , however limited that may be . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Every assignment has a certain amount of documentation attached to it . |
| 6 | But although Ralph 's business is being hit by the dispute , he has a certain amount of sympathy for his French counterparts . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ It seems to me , do correct me if I 'm wrong , but reading the weekly ‘ Jottings ’ one would say you 've had a certain amount of experience with women . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I do have a certain amount of work to do , ’ Alice said , ‘ but I can fit in with your plans , Harry . |
| 10 | You , you would go , you would have a certain amount of information already in that |
| 11 | erm Monsieur Mitterand 's relationship with erm Chancellor Schmidt for example is certainly not yet anything like as close erm as Chancellor Schmidt 's relationship with ex-President Giscard was , but they are both socialists , erm they do have a certain amount in common , and I see no reason why they should n't quite quickly build another erm relationship erm that would be quite similar to what happened before . |
| 12 | DENIS Winston Healey is having a certain amount of characteristically mischievous fun with journalists at the moment , on the question of whether he will or will not stand at the next election . |
| 13 | He goes off having a certain amount of difficulty walking , the sharp little packets no doubt cutting into the delicate peachstone flesh of his testicles . |
| 14 | I can remember having a certain amount of resentment towards politics after that . ’ |
| 15 | I can remember having a certain amount of resentment towards politics . ’ |
| 16 | This means that the ‘ brain' of the synth has to have a certain amount of waveform information from the guitar before it can determine an actual pitch and synthesise that information accordingly . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The master who went abroad had three servants , each of whom had a certain amount of ability . |
| 19 | They therefore had a certain amount of power over others and were also known to receive ‘ perks ’ , for example extra food from the kitchen . |
| 20 | Moreover , each quantum had a certain amount of energy that was greater the higher the frequency of the waves , so at a high enough frequency the emission of a single quantum would require more energy than was available . |
| 21 | ‘ One had a certain amount of training ; one knew it was coming and so in a way , fear did n't come into it very much . |
| 22 | It preferred to work within a party which still had a certain amount of prestige . |
| 23 | ‘ Taylors have a certain amount of stock but she will be bringing extra samples from London especially for the show . |
| 24 | I 'm not quite sure , I think most organizations have a certain amount of of sum of money if I can remember from the workshops . |
| 25 | Perhaps the authorities are fortunate that the people up here have a certain amount of self respect for themselves . |
| 26 | Some swelling is normal in later pregnancy — in fact the majority of women with healthy pregnancies have a certain amount of swelling — so your midwife or doctor will not be concerned at slightly puffy hands , face or ankles near the end of pregnancy . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So we , we have a certain amount of flexibility in there . |
| 29 | 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 . |