Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] certain [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most claims about markedness involve comparisons across languages ; for example , a particular word order might turn out to be much commoner , less unexpected than the alternatives in the languages of the world or of a certain language family . |
| 2 | To its detriment , the traditional easel always holds the canvas at a slight backward tilt and can not easily paintings above or below a certain size . |
| 3 | To its detriment , the traditional easel always holds the canvas at a slight backward tilt and can not easily paintings above or below a certain size . |
| 4 | One way of doing this is to count the number of days in any month where you were at or below a certain weight . |
| 5 | If a beast is around or below a certain sum of money I buy . |
| 6 | If people over a certain age , or within a certain age group , are required for a specified job for valid reasons , then it is not unlawful discrimination . |
| 7 | Sometimes the Constitution limits the executive or subordinate local bodies ; sometimes it limits the legislature also , but only so far as amendment of the Constitution itself is concerned ; and sometimes it imposes restrictions upon the legislature which go far beyond this point and forbid it to make laws upon certain subjects or in a certain way or with certain effects . |
| 8 | This was done from affection or duty or in the certain knowledge that those who helped would someday need similar help themselves — as a form of insurance . |
| 9 | All expertise in a particular technique or on a certain topic can be gathered together in one place , and the level of collective knowledge can then be ascertained , supported and made available . |
| 10 | It is clear that during a certain stage in the child 's development , artefacts become its principal means of articulating feelings and desires . |
| 11 | A reporter in New York learns from a friend , a gynaecologist , that after a certain date she has no more patients on her books ; others in her profession are in the same boat . |
| 12 | He is only saying that after a certain point in his life he himself did not doubt . |
| 13 | It is very often assumed , particularly by non-technical persons , that a product is tested for stability and that after a certain time a result is obtained proving stability of the product and/or pack . |
| 14 | Völker ideally combines the lyrical and the heroic in his singing , phrases with authority , albeit with a certain freedom where note values are concerned , and puts other contenders in the shade , even though by 1942 the voice was n't quite as pliant or firm as it had been six or seven years earlier . |
| 15 | Let us assume that within a certain time , probably around a year or so for most people , you will have achieved your ideal weight , a good , firm shape , and a reasonable level of physical fitness . |
| 16 | The answer is that in a certain sense there is only one categorical imperative , and all other categorical imperatives are applications of this . |
| 17 | Now I 'm sure you , Brian , would acknowledge that in a certain sense we are all laymen most of the time . |
| 18 | Or the settlor could direct that in a certain event a new use should spring up in D's favour . |
| 19 | They say that although to a certain extent the cuts were expected , moral is still very low . |
| 20 | It must be admitted that to a certain extent I am presenting a caricature of the Shavante , if for no other reason than I do not know them as well as the Piaroa . |
| 21 | Every other room in the house — kitchen , bathroom , bedroom , dining room , study — has its own fixed function that to a certain extent dictates the arrangements within it . |
| 22 | However , earlier chapters have shown that life events are implicated in a range of psychiatric disorder , and that to a certain extent it is possible to specify the broad type of event which will precede a particular type of disorder . |
| 23 | It is undoubtedly true that without a certain facility with money and with other arithmetical skills , people are handicapped in going about their daily business . |
| 24 | There is , buried in some agencies ' archives , material — usually based either on reading and noting research ( see page 100 ) or on direct response returns — which shows rather clearly that over a certain size — somewhere around 35 cm × 6 cols in a broadsheet newspaper — diminishing returns begin to set in . |
| 25 | Atkinson demanded for universities a ‘ self-renewing library of limited growth ’ ( or ‘ steady state library ’ ) , which meant that beyond a certain point in size a library 's acquisitions would be largely offset by the discarding of obsolete material . |
| 26 | The evidence is that beyond a certain point tax incentives only increase industrial R&D by an amount that is roughly half , or even less , of the value of the revenue forgone by the government . |
| 27 | Academics on the other hand will argue that beyond a certain point ( and there is no agreement exactly where it lies ) an increased student/staff ratio is bound to mean a dilution in the quality of the product . |
| 28 | An old idea , that beyond a certain point you just find hideous monsters , ’ Kopyion said . |
| 29 | In ordinary spoken discourse the endless cycle of encoding-decoding-encoding may be terminated by an action , as when for instance I say , ‘ The door is open ’ and you say , ‘ Do you mean you would like me to shut it ? ’ and I say , ‘ If you do n't mind ’ , and you shut the door , we may be satisfied that at a certain level my meaning has been understood . |
| 30 | I can not therefore deny that in this context a settled and preponderant public demand ought to be taken into account or that at a certain point it would have to prevail . |