Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [art] certain [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1948 a certain M. ( Micky ) K. Watson was elected on to the committee , beginning a special relationship with the Club that was to last some 30 years and prove instrumental in its recovery , simultaneously adding significantly to the quality of both the Club 's social and golfing amenities . |
| 2 | This makes perfect sense in that a certain intimacy is restored and those r'n'r roots show when ‘ Julian H Cope ’ offers up a Lou Reed pastiche — with ‘ Summertime Blues ’ thrown in — masquerading as a song . |
| 3 | The transactions demand is related to the function money performs as a medium of exchange in that a certain quantity of money balances is required by economic transactors simply to purchase the goods and services they expect to buy during the period in question . |
| 4 | The superstar is doubly lucky in that a certain aloofness — a concentration on tomorrow 's battle for supremacy — is expected . |
| 5 | This may be dealt with in some way in the contract in that a certain notice period may have been specified and this may have been adhered to by the parties . |
| 6 | To come upon someone with it curling all over his face is astonishing enough to overlook at first a certain glassiness to his left eye — until , that is , he absent-mindedly lets it fall to dangle from its string . |