Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to a certain [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finance director of one of the companies says he believes that the productivity increases attributable to IT are coming to an end : ‘ Auditors are getting more productive — but it can only go to a certain level . ’ |
| 2 | Even my wife , enlightened , but energetically gregarious , upon my expressing my desire not to go to a certain gathering would say , ‘ Normal people like parties , they want to go . ’ |
| 3 | At the same time , it is too easy to condemn certain forms of work for being apolitical simply because they do not correspond to a certain paradigm of immediate political effectivity . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Stepping has always been a feature of this particular village and it is still practised to a certain extent today . |
| 6 | For the evidence set out above suggests that the heads of the central figures , which still relate to a certain extent to the work of 1906 and which were almost certainly the first to be painted , were not executed until the Iberian stone heads came into Picasso 's possession in March 1907 . |
| 7 | Some of my colleagues have accepted that it became discredited , but they are still trying to a certain degree to defend it . |
| 8 | This process of manufacture inevitably leads to a certain loss of spontaneity in the design but , as compensation , makes it possible for far more technically exacting compositions to be achieved . |
| 9 | This month , you need to double check the reason why you feel so strongly opposed to a certain possibility . |
| 10 | The basic salaries paid to executives relocated abroad depend to a certain degree on which countries are involved . |
| 11 | At the other end of the scale one finds the hard pressed teacher or headmaster , besieged by parents , yet limited to a certain class size by government regulation ( or even by the number of spaces in his register page ) . |