Example sentences of "had a certain [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus far the sub-text had a certain logic , but fear ( or , rather , anxiety ) can lead to panic , and the second part could have been expressed as , ‘ I do n't want to be a woman because I would rather be myself . ’ |
| 2 | This price had a certain logic , being the amount of surety which each official immigrant into the country had to post . |
| 3 | He had a certain style and authority . |
| 4 | " She had a certain style about her , " she says . |
| 5 | For up to then , even if the old buggers in the club were lewd , they had a certain style . |
| 6 | Linen , when new , had a certain quantity of starch applied , thereby making it slightly stiff whilst remaining pliable ; wrapped in such material a body would be given a neat , crisp appearance and presentable for viewing , the shroud being drawn away from the features for this purpose . |
| 7 | I well remember a young man who aroused special interest one weekend because he had been taken on at a place which had a certain reputation . |
| 8 | Victorian science , perhaps Victorian intellectual life , had a certain robustness which could easily degenerate into quarrels , and it is a feature of the time that leading workers in the same field were often not on speaking terms : but at least in the BAAS good-tempered discussion was possible . |
| 9 | One could only say of an electron encircling the hydrogen nucleus that it had a certain probability of being found here and a certain probability of being found there . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Fiat had a certain notoriety for rust problems , so the Croma is almost fully galvanized with zinc . |
| 12 | Joseph Robinson had blessed his luck to marry a woman who had a certain expectation of such a fine spot and his vigorous commerce had turned a pothouse into a stopover for some of the best in the county , in the land even . |
| 13 | Geoff Link 's smile was not quite right , it had a certain relief , of course , but it held the promise of something more . |
| 14 | No one else did , and Salah was careful to stagger the entertainments so that the foreign teachers ( for whom he had a certain distaste ) should arrive and leave before the other guests . |
| 15 | The change in mass thus found could be interpreted , via the equation [ ( equation ) ( for which Einstein doubtless had a certain affection ) , as a change in energy content of the box . |
| 16 | It had rained overnight but now the sun was breaking through and the scene had a certain gaiety . |
| 17 | A ridiculous word in itself , but it had a certain swing about it . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , and at least from the time the North Atlantic Pact was signed in April 1949 , France had a certain entitlement as an ally . |
| 19 | They had a certain prestige within the neighbourhood and influence within the world of football was part of this process of ‘ making good ’ . |
| 20 | For all their imperfections , the old wetland commons had a certain self-sufficiency and self-containment which provide a standard against which to judge the enthusiastic , never-satisfied ambitions of the agriculturalists and drainage men who set out to exploit them . |
| 21 | Popular parlance spoke of Time as a medium wherein one had a certain independence of movement quite at variance with scientific dogma . |
| 22 | She was a land agent 's daughter from somewhere in Norfolk , tall and fair , with heavy gilt hair curling down over her shoulders , and a long , slim , slightly drooping body that had a certain elegance . |
| 23 | The shape of the cheeks — if slightly too reminiscent of a cadaver — had a certain elegance . |
| 24 | She could not help reflecting , as she pushed a magazine into the first letter box , that a world in which Daimler drivers could pay four hundred thousand pounds for a country house while she could not even muster a couple of hundred for Luke 's modest share of an old transit van had a certain imbalance to it . |
| 25 | For all his simplicity and rough appearance he had a certain grace of figure . |
| 26 | If there was a sphere in which the authorities had a certain justification for retreating from the policy of reform ( and in which they could have afforded to act without alienating a numerically significant part of the population ) , it was that of higher education . |
| 27 | If the benefits of large families were obvious in the Irish peasant society in which we had once had our roots , they had a certain value for us too ; they scored vital points on the council housing list . |
| 28 | He had a certain number of men-at-arms in the town , who could , probably , contain a revolt of the townsfolk , at least for a little while . |
| 29 | The master who went abroad had three servants , each of whom had a certain amount of ability . |
| 30 | They therefore had a certain amount of power over others and were also known to receive ‘ perks ’ , for example extra food from the kitchen . |