Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [art] certain [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durability is still a point of concern because most tend to lose a certain amount of loft with extended use . |
| 2 | ‘ If you want to create a certain density with a guitar you record one instrument with three mics and you get this wonderfull stereo spread . |
| 3 | And the seams of the canister are only designed to withstand a certain amount of pressure . |
| 4 | However , most Japanese businessmen acquainted with foreigners have come to expect a certain variety within reasonable limits in the dress of foreign businessmen . |
| 5 | In fact , you will probably need to overcome a certain reluctance to be recorded , whatever your location . |
| 6 | On the other hand , the HMI 's nine areas of experience , although offering an interesting alternative , appear to have a certain arbitrariness about them , especially when one ( technological ) is added with no explanation as to why . |
| 7 | This means that the ‘ brain' of the synth has to have a certain amount of waveform information from the guitar before it can determine an actual pitch and synthesise that information accordingly . |
| 8 | Henry Cecil , trainer of Lyphard 's Delta , also looks to have a certain winner in Bal Harbour in the Listed Stardom Stakes . |
| 9 | From the point of view of the ‘ host ’ or ‘ hostess ’ the most immediate benefit of showing art would be to enhance a pleasant ambience , but the more ambitious would also be seeking to attract a certain clientele by offering more than the comfort of food . |
| 10 | In Por Tanssie , the vibrancers had always been instructed to keep a certain distance between them . |
| 11 | Apart from the bike messengers , that was , and these were easy to distinguish because they were young and wiry and bizarrely dressed , and their eyes seemed to have a certain glaze on them from being on a permanent adrenaline high . |
| 12 | He seemed to display a certain insensitivity in these cases — an impression enhanced by his somewhat pedantic way of speech . |
| 13 | A musical snob can miss the fact that people may actually want to buy a certain kind of thing . ’ |
| 14 | A musical snob can miss the fact that people may actually want to buy a certain kind of thing |
| 15 | In such contexts , the main clues showing that the speaker feels someone 's having dared to perform a certain action to be hard to imagine is the nature of the act itself or the circumstances under which it was performed . |
| 16 | This rather crude form of collegial evaluation tends to induce a certain kind of conservatism in teachers , an attachment to existing classroom methods which appear to be reasonably successful in keeping results high and noise levels low . |
| 17 | A few years later , in 1912 , La Fresnaye , attempting to describe a certain aspect of Cézanne 's work and to assess his influence on contemporary painting said : ‘ Each object , in one of the late canvases , has ceased to exist only in itself , and becomes little by little a cell within the whole organism of the painting . |
| 18 | Finally , in chapter 5 a theory of meaning was used to discredit a certain programme in epistemology . |
| 19 | ‘ With what I 've done , I 'm going to get a certain amount of flak , ’ he says . |
| 20 | The artefact , on the other hand , tends to imply a certain innocence of facticity ; it seems to offer the clarity of realism , an assertion of certainty against the buffeting of debate , an end or resting point which resolves the disorder of uncertain perspectives . |
| 21 | Yes , you 've got to have a certain degree of structure in it and that happens I think through the parish council in a number of the key areas , but you have got to retain a degree of flexibility , otherwise you will just stifle initiative , you 'll stifle growing issues that happen . |
| 22 | and so provided that there 's proper procedures , I mean I do n't suppose the commission wanted to actually act as a , a review body for every person excluded from the market in Europe , and so they said well one 's got to have a certain faith in the national courts as being an independent review , and such as that person is excluded from the market there must be a very good reason and he was an a competitor |
| 23 | A gas which is usually found in car exhaust fumes might soon be used to cure a certain type of male impotence . |
| 24 | It is worth noting that Allen and Overy , the London solicitors acting for the Baron , are beginning to acquire a certain reputation for themselves in the art world . |
| 25 | ‘ No , but I like to work a certain amount of time per day . |
| 26 | Relocation is bound to cause a certain amount of disruption in the running of the business . |
| 27 | And if we assume a 1 per cent fall in interest rates , this £22,000 transfer value would increase to £30,000 ( because as interest rates drop , a larger sum needs to be invested to give a certain sum at a future date ; and vice versa ) . |
| 28 | Having said that you need not buy large quantities of any one flower , do remember that you are bound to have a certain percentage of failures in your press , no matter how hard you try . |
| 29 | The irony is that in striving to perpetuate a certain mythology about his own prescience and consistency , about France 's fundamental unity , and about the mediocrity of the times in comparison with the exalted hours of the war and the liberation , de Gaulle actually masked one of the great achievements , perhaps the greatest achievement , of his political career . |
| 30 | In the case of matching grants the central government agrees to match a certain proportion of the expenditures of the local authority ; for example , central government may pay x per cent of the total cost of providing a service at the local level . |