Example sentences of "[adj] to [art] certain [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's say I was prone to a certain amount of raffishness which would have been frowned upon by my more sober colleagues . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | the drug I was okay to a certain extent . |
| 6 | The proclaimed ‘ non-alignment ’ of Vietnam , Kampuchea and Laos may have been reassuring to a certain extent to the non-communist five , but neutralisation as a strategic concept had been anchored on the assumption that the Indo-Chinese war would end with the survival of non-communist , neutral regimes in South Vietnam , Kampuchea and Laos and that the overall balance of forces in Southeast Asia would remain decisively in favour of the non-communist states . |
| 7 | To impose upon a man who , through natural causes , has been made ill to a certain extent , very grave injuries such as were sustained by this plaintiff and which reduces his capacity to bear natural ill health , is in my judgment more likely to increase than reduce damages . |
| 8 | Or Dostoevsky holds firm to a certain grandness and climactic force , while inverting the podvig and rendering it passive , when Stavrogin ‘ endures ’ a tremendous punch in the face from Shatov . |
| 9 | Although this is an extreme example , it serves to illustrate the selectiveness which characterises linguistic investigation generally , and which is also present to a certain degree in most analysis of discourse . |
| 10 | They may be liberal , but there is a certain minimum reference to a particular history , above all to a certain person , which is not to be avoided if one is to call oneself Christian . |
| 11 | The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out . |
| 12 | Sometimes the court lays down a prima facie assumption applicable to a certain kind of provision ( eg the rule that time is not of the essence of a rent review timetable ) . |
| 13 | ‘ The same law is applicable to a certain extent to a trading corporation . |
| 14 | Generalisations may be helpful to a certain extent but we have to take into account complex variants which are law-related but not necessarily legal : Richard Vogler ( in Chapter 7 of this volume ) for example , leads us to ask whether the use of law will lead to a bureaucratisation and disintegration of the peace movement as in the 1960s ? |
| 15 | The stencilled letters and numbers are assertions of this also — ‘ as part of a desire to come as close as possible to a certain kind of reality , in 1911 I introduced letters into my paintings ’ , Braque has said — but the implications are wider . |
| 16 | Apart from this finding , judgement in determining who is a good leader is bound to be subjective to a certain extent . |
| 17 | and trying to one was one would assume , that to a certain extent , if you 've got a problem with air conditioning that we would we would have a higher , a higher incidence of erm of those sort of complaints . |
| 18 | The bid that we put in for erm looking at I mean would n't it would n't it come into that to a certain extent . |
| 19 | what you need to think about and you 're gon na keep your readers ' interest engaged , keep on want to keep reading , your pictures are gon na do that to a certain extent but that 's what your sub-headings goes over , so think about , pick out , read through your main story , pick out your main ideas and see if you can slot in one of those emotive words that 's passion , that 's stirring people 's emotions |
| 20 | A specific combination of sounds was ‘ sacred to a certain demon , for whom it has an unaccountable , mysterious , and irresistible fascination , from which he can not free himself . ’ |
| 21 | Central intervention was successful to a certain degree where means of communication were concerned , especially those between Moscow and the provinces . |
| 22 | I would think every community would have sort of customs of their own to a certain degree too would n't they . |
| 23 | Mrs Costello-Roberts said she was ‘ disappointed to a certain degree by the decision ’ but she added : ‘ The fact that the vote of the judges was only very slightly against us does show that we were taken very seriously . ’ |
| 24 | John uses a V-groove cutter , so the width of the flute is variable to a certain degree , dependent on the depth of cut . |
| 25 | Sessile oak woods are commonest on the poorer acid soils of the north and west and the characteristic openness and lack of shrub layer beneath the canopy proves attractive to a certain bird clientele , including the pied flycatchers . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was that which made her attractive to a certain type of man . |
| 27 | I suppose this is true to a certain degree but when match fishing it helps to have the right one for the job . |
| 28 | A comparison of adult and child households ( which is not strictly comparable with lone parent families ) from the Family Expenditure Survey showed that this is true to a certain extent for central heating , washing machines , fridges and televisions . |
| 29 | This is true to a certain extent of even the most specialist feeders amongst the owls like the great grey owl or the short-eared owl , while most other species adapt their dietary requirements to a wide range of seasonal , climatic , regional and ecological variants . |
| 30 | Personal R:Base has been designed to be simple to learn and use , which is true to a certain extent , as manipulating data in a pre-created database is almost self explanatory . |