Example sentences of "to a certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
| 2 | Leonard has admitted to a certain indifference to these studies , particularly his grasp of Hebrew with its strange characters and back-to-front writing ( with which he grew up ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And now we look closer at Stan Gilligrew , he bears more than a passing resemblance to a certain well-known PR consultant . |
| 5 | Graham Chapman , who died on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of his first appearance in the show which made his reputation , travelled along ( and to a certain extent pioneered ) that now orthodox route to celebrity . |
| 6 | Central intervention was successful to a certain degree where means of communication were concerned , especially those between Moscow and the provinces . |
| 7 | That alternative means taking a datum line for each business and limiting the rise of its profits above that datum line to a certain rate . |
| 8 | This is especially significant given that , according to Lacan , ‘ Every emission of speech is always , up to a certain point , under an inner necessity to err ’ ( Seminar , ii . |
| 9 | These restricted lawful picketing to the pickets ' own place of work and removed the unions ' legal immunities from civil actions , so making them liable for damages up to a certain limit where they were responsible for unlawful industrial action . |
| 10 | The significance of using this starting point , outside of the actors ' consciousness , can not be exaggerated , because it set Marx , Engels , and other Marxists on an analytical course which was fundamentally different from other social analysts of their time , and which to a certain extent still distinguishes Marxist analyses from many others . |
| 11 | Within the local community it had survived during the Middle Ages and even to a certain extent right up to the nineteenth century , in spite of a foreign overlay of feudal institutions coming from western and southern Europe . |
| 12 | Among the ‘ lower caste ’ people , the woman 's role had always been rather different from her role in the farming castes ; now ‘ lower caste ’ women worked increasingly in the fields alongside the men and this led , according to Mamdani , to ‘ a radical change … in the attitude towards girl children … low caste families do not look upon the birth of a girl with the disfavour they used to ’ — though ‘ to a certain extent the disfavour persists because the girl will marry and emigrate precisely when she has reached the age of greatest productivity ’ . |
| 13 | The structures and sizes of Asian families in Britain vary , depending to a certain extent on their regional background in the Indian subcontinent . |
| 14 | Perhaps people realise that in England these women are ultimately powerless , so they feel there is no point in helping them , or perhaps they think that the sons are to a certain extent justified , or may be it is just a matter of people not having the time or energy to do anything about it . |
| 15 | Ironically enough , on recovery her parents were gentler with her and began gradually to compromise to a certain extent , and now she is at a college of further education . |
| 16 | Even those one would expect to have rejoiced at the religious revival which Lewis 's popularity heralded and to a certain degree inspired could only bring themselves to sneer . |
| 17 | The survival of the other species of river dolphin is also precarious and to a certain extent unknown , as accurate figures on population numbers are lacking . |
| 18 | A shipowner whose liability is automatically assumed up to a certain level , and strictly limited above that , will have less incentive to avoid a costly spill . |
| 19 | He suggested , also , that an undue concentration on the new natural philosophy might lead to a certain intellectual arrogance . |
| 20 | His proud boast is that ‘ the same principles which at first lead to scepticism , pursued to a certain point , bring men back to common sense ’ , and that rather than being a purveyor of wild and new paradoxes , he has ‘ unite[d] and place[d] in a clearer light that truth , which was before shared between the vulgar and the philosophers ’ . |
| 21 | He suggested , also , that an undue concentration on the new natural philosophy might lead to a certain intellectual arrogance . |
| 22 | The second movement was just ending , and had succeeded in stabilising her to a certain extent . |
| 23 | He even put the woman 's view to a certain extent : ‘ Miriam knew that their marriage was dead , but took comfort in the old rituals of going to bed together and getting up in the morning . ’ |
| 24 | We used to go to a certain bar and sit at our favourite table , where we would be joined by a pair of bedizened harridans with dyed orange hair and chipped scarlet fingernails . |
| 25 | In my utter loneliness I had only one resource : several times I took the ferry to North Shields , and walked up the steep bank to a certain public lavatory beside a roaring pub . |
| 26 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 27 | Where a crime requires knowledge or recklessness as to a certain circumstance , and the defendant holds a mistaken belief about that circumstance , logic demands that an acquittal should follow . |
| 28 | You go to a certain pub ‘ for the vibe ’ ; you do n't go to another pub because you 're ‘ vibed out ’ . |
| 29 | With women especially , there is a great deal of social pressure to conform to a certain physical shape . |
| 30 | So sometimes a horse may only have a bad habit in relation to a certain rider , and in that case it will be the rider who will need the extra training . |