Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb -s] a certain [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Texas is doing increasing and profitable business where it keeps a certain percentage of its dynamic memory chip production uncommitted until the last 90 days prior to release in order to fulfill the requirements of customers that are ‘ sole source ’ commitments and ‘ fab-less IC companies ’ . |
| 2 | For example , a manufacturer of upholstery fabric may want to know how well his cloth wears , so he gives a certain piece of the cloth a standardized ‘ rubbing ’ test to see how many rubs it can stand before wearing through . |
| 3 | They wo n't they they they just said , if it exceeds a certain margin , we recommend that you establish another trading company . |
| 4 | A c.c.d. delay line provides a delay because it takes a certain amount of time for each input sample to be passed along the chain of capacitors and to finally emerge at the output . |
| 5 | Since opposite charges attract , the reason why the electron does not gravitate towards the nucleus but stays in orbit around it ( even though it is radiating and losing its energy in doing so ) is because it retains a certain energy called ‘ ground-state energy ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I prefer this means of transport because I find it consonant with a certain feeling I have about myself — because it expresses a certain style of being that I find congenial — because I find the kinaesthetic sensations it affords , even the physical efforts and nervous tension , somehow involving . ’ |
| 7 | The authority of civil association is an endowment which is not traceable to any particular source and which lies only in ‘ continuous acknowledgement ’ based not on acts of obedience ‘ but in the continuous recognition of the obligation to subscribe to its prescriptions because it has a certain shape ’ . |
| 8 | Kicks , punches and elbow strikes can all be directed at the ball , and because it has a certain amount of give in it , practitioners can get a more or less accurate feeling of how a punch or kick will feel against a human body . |
| 9 | Since it takes a certain time to reach its working temperature and cool down again , it would not be able to follow the changes satisfactorily . |
| 10 | Ideally , the file designer will aim to reduce the time taken to reference this index ; however , when it exceeds a certain threshold value described earlier , a master index , which has one entry for each track of the cylinder index , can be created to reduce the total search time as described above . |
| 11 | A , whose career abroad ends when he attains a certain age , decides to retire to the United Kingdom , and before his return from abroad transfers his United Kingdom assets to a company he has incorporated in the Irish Republic with a view to future tax avoidance . |
| 12 | The principle is fixed that a scholar aspiring to high office must first teach at a graded series of medreses , one after the other , and that only when he reaches a certain grade does he become eligible for the great offices of the learned hierarchy , the mevleviyets , which are in their turn graded . |
| 13 | Foucault , as we have seen , is also criticized on the grounds that he can not give a cause for the shifts he describes , but this criticism itself begs the question insofar as it assumes a certain kind of history , which itself presupposes that there was a cause in the sense of a single uniform causality , rather than a disconnectedness in the scientific mode . |
| 14 | A group is coherent in so far as it has a certain continuity in its consciousness , its organisation and its action ; but its coherence also implies that its members do actually support one another in practical ways that are consistent with the objectives of the group . |
| 15 | The captain can interpret the records as he wishes as long as he maintains a certain standard . |