Example sentences of "has [art] certain [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the company has a certain range of manufacturing skills which it attempts to employ in the most productive manner . |
| 2 | For such a beginning writer in such a situation , it may well turn out that a minor master like Landor is more fruitfully instructive than a major master like Milton or Keats : and if it does turn out so , one has a certain debt of honour that must be paid to the past master by whom one was liberated . |
| 3 | This somewhat clumsy distinction has a certain utility . |
| 4 | As an unreconstructed communist regime , it also has a certain rarity value to China 's own communist old-timers . |
| 5 | ( To say that something has a certain position is to say how it is related spatially to other things . |
| 6 | One can say that the whole material universe has a certain colour , but not that it has a certain position . |
| 7 | It may be argued that sexuality has a certain uniqueness which is absent from much property : sexuality is an intrinsic part of one 's personality , it is a mode of expressing that personality in relation to others , and it is therefore fundamental that one should be able to choose whether to express oneself in this way — and , if so , towards and with whom . |
| 8 | As a result , each artist was chosen for at least four reasons , but with a common denominator : we decided to present individuals operating from an independent position , whose work has a certain degree of complexity and can not be reduced to one or two key ideas . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | But it has a certain logic . |
| 11 | The traditional order of toasts has a certain logic . |
| 12 | In his various schools in lower Egypt Nasser has a certain self-consciousness as a saidi and one of peasant background . |
| 13 | And I realised early in life that each word has a certain presence for me , a texture , a weight . |
| 14 | He himself is much better recorded in the studio performance but the new one has a certain documentary value , for it shows him 14 years later still singing the part magnificently , still ( for example ) achieving that remarkable effect at the climax of ‘ Or son sei mesi ’ when , by his phrasingover , the shame ( ‘ vergogna ’ ) becomes the agony ( ‘ ahime ’ ) , and now ( at a time when it must be tempting to broaden baritonally ) deliberately sharpening the edge and brightness of his tenor . |
| 15 | Every teacher at whatever level of the hierarchy has a certain reservoir of skill , experience , aptitude and common sense , sufficient to enable some jobs to be accomplished swiftly , easily and confidently , but not others . |
| 16 | But for attitudinism an ethical statement does not state any fact at all , not even the fact that the speaker has a certain attitude ; rather it expresses an attitude , something , so it is contended , which is very different . |
| 17 | Starting from scratch has a certain attraction but is hardly an option in countries , such as Britain , which have long established medical schools . |
| 18 | The proposal has a certain attraction . |
| 19 | In this he perhaps sounds like a member of a Leavisite ‘ reverent-openness-before-life ’ school , but his concept of ostranenie already has a certain edge through being defined in opposition to the habitual . |
| 20 | It has a certain notoriety for its garlic-scented foliage , but anyone with a taste for good food will definitely find it rather pleasant ! |
| 21 | The great white has a certain notoriety for being the only shark species to attack humans without apparent cause . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He has a certain reputation in Hebron ( though not as much as the exaggerated courtesy of verse 6 would suggest ) , but no political power . |
| 24 | I 'm currently making frequent trips to Poland , and there one sees a type of early capitalism developing that has a certain charm like Visconti 's movies of the Fifties . |
| 25 | For all I know , there may be a kernel of truth in what he says , but anyone expecting his followers to wear turquoise shell suits can count me out , even if his prophesy that New Zealand is about to disappear under water has a certain charm . |
| 26 | It is clear that , if normativist style has its roots in conservatism and liberalism , similarly one may say that the functionalist style has a certain affinity with a political theory of socialism . |
| 27 | What is the ‘ essence ’ or ‘ nature ’ of a horse , and why does it follow from this that a horse has a certain type of head or feet , or lives to the age it does ? |
| 28 | One can say that the whole material universe has a certain colour , but not that it has a certain position . |
| 29 | Tony Curtis has a certain modesty . |
| 30 | ‘ It has a certain character , you must admit . ’ |