Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] certain [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the sound is right for a certain combination of musicians , or a certain style of music , then obviously you play better , but I do n't think there are very many people who have their sound , and go from one band to another just using that sound . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've accepted that I can do this for a certain amount of time . |
| 3 | The Timer IC2 is connected as a monostable — that is , once triggered in this way the output , pin 3 , goes high for a certain time then reverts to low . |
| 4 | Viva Hate ! feels implausibly fresh : the music 's breathing again , free of a certain stuffiness and laboriousness that had set in seemingly irreversibly in The Smiths ' twilight period . |
| 5 | She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . " |
| 6 | However , I do use this with a certain amount of common sense . |
| 7 | The thought that the world might have been different in a certain respect is taken to be the thought that there is a possible world which does differ from the actual world in that respect ( and probably others too ) . |
| 8 | But , crucially , and this reminds us of Genet , Bersani locates a challenge inseparable from a certain ambivalence : if gay males threaten male heterosexual identity , it is not because they offer a detached parody of that identity , but rather because ‘ from within their nearly mad identification with it , they never cease to feel the appeal of its being violated ’ ( ‘ Is the Rectum a Grave ? ’ , 208 — 9 , his emphasis ) . |
| 9 | For example , cancer of the hard palate is found worldwide but is fairly rare ; however , the prevalence is very high in a certain area of South America . |
| 10 | For even the most primitive practices are dependent upon a certain amount of theory , and even the most ‘ theoretical ’ activities can only take place within practices . |
| 11 | Height and weight charts are vital in determining the seriousness of the problem and are the best method of assessing whether the food intake is adequate over a certain period of time . |
| 12 | Let's say I was prone to a certain amount of raffishness which would have been frowned upon by my more sober colleagues . |
| 13 | Erm a lot of cl closed questions but that 's unavoidable to a certain extent with this part of the C C Q , however you did n't ask about whether there are any other family locally or otherwise |
| 14 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 15 | If the money remains unclaimed for a certain time it is returned to the finder . |
| 16 | Where kids become worldly-wise with such rapidity , it is easy for a certain laissez-faire to creep in ; they expect to have unbridled access to everything , and in the long run this is not doing any favours to either party concerned . |
| 17 | Now they 're not applying the same rules and regulations in Savac and Sarouac , it 's the island peninsular , maybe their reaction to the Friends of the Earth is symptomatic of a certain degree of bad conscience that they have with the , with the other two . |
| 18 | a clergyman and his wife , typical of a certain kind of ‘ egotistical couple ’ . |
| 19 | It is typical of a certain sort of domestic architecture which exudes an air of virtue and solidity . |
| 20 | Inside our house there were stone floors , coal fires , oil lamps , but I do n't remember ever feeling any sense of cold or discomfort , except when I got chilblains — a seasonal occurrence ( and one which Dally cites , along with other circulatory disorders , as common among anorexics and perhaps indicative of a certain proneness ) . |
| 21 | Thus a nursery nurse will confess to being ignorant and fearful of a certain handicap while demonstrating competence and confidence in dealing with a child who has tantrums or is language-delayed . |
| 22 | Some women say the old idea that a man is uncontrollable past a certain point is absurd . |
| 23 | Among the club 's industrial modernist design , blatantly derivative of a certain club in Manchester , there are as many people drinking Lucozade , Orangina and Purdey 's energy drink as there are the Continental bottled lagers . |
| 24 | What I hope to have shown , which is consistent with a certain tentativeness about what has been said , and with incompleteness , is that we do have a grasp of both dependent and independent conditionals , which grasp can be clarified and which gives to us an explicit understanding of the seven causal connections that were set out . |
| 25 | The Forces Programme was renamed the Light Programme in 1945 , ‘ designed to appeal not so much to a certain class of listener — but to all listeners when they are in certain moods ’ ( BBC , 1946 , p. 53 ) . |
| 26 | Even if the proved debt did not include the right to interest , interest can be claimed , up to the date of the bankruptcy order in the following cases : ( i ) in respect of a debt due by virtue of a written instrument payable at a certain time , interest may be claimed from that time ( r 6.113(2) ) at judgment rate ( r 6.113(4) ) ; ( ii ) otherwise , after demand for repayment has been made stating that interest will thereafter be charged ( r 6.113(3) ) then at the rate specified in the notice provided that it does not exceed judgment rate and is only from the date of the demand ( r 6.113(4) ) . |
| 27 | It is an indication of the slow decline of central Spain that these provinces , once dismissed as a poor region , were now considered as a fortunate Spanish Switzerland where Homeric simplicity was relieved by a certain luxury in eating and drinking . |
| 28 | In particular they need to be reminded of that combination of unashamed materialism and gnarled , disbelieving scepticism about the power of political parties to give effect to Utopia which is characteristic of a certain type of Conservatism . |
| 29 | Sharing is characteristic of a certain kind of non-competitive egalitarianism because it eliminates the possibility of debt ( cf. |
| 30 | Bakhrushin 's rather harsh summary of Russian colonial policy in Siberia is characteristic of a certain strain of Soviet historiography . |