Example sentences of "[adv prt] to a certain [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were n't , the star would collapse down to a certain size and then stay like that . |
| 2 | He fills it up , and cooks for himself , and when it gets down to a certain level then he thinks , ‘ now I might do a concert ’ . |
| 3 | for me meeting with Jim was to say , yes , that 's fine but if at the end of the day we have to train down to a certain level within our group , there 's no way can we afford five man-days of lost fees and fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 4 | As tread depth gets down to a certain level , the efficiency of the tyre reduces . |
| 5 | Up my elbow and er anyway put it used to take it back to the shop and er well I was still inside the shop , down to a certain place in the shop and put it on a on a stand and then there 'd be a on that stand , beside the bucket , was a a box of not Lux not Lux soap but er yellow soap . |
| 6 | Erm , once again , the problems are being addressed in to a certain extent regarding residential homes and we 're very pleased with that . |
| 7 | I 've just paid three hundred and eighty five over to a certain garage |
| 8 | I sometimes head off to a certain place . |
| 9 | The class had seen their friends carried off to a certain death . |
| 10 | No , well like I have n't learnt it , I ca n't play I can play up to a certain bit in the start and then I can play the rest of it like , it 's just one I ca n't get it 's just real annoying , I have the at the right pitch and I just |
| 11 | Up to a certain size , that is to say the size attained by the rats at a few weeks old , she caught and ate them , and , with a sure instinct for authority , brought in their tails to lay them at the feet of Martha . |
| 12 | Watch how they move right up to a certain morsel and pick it up with their lips , or how they move no closer than several inches to another and then draw it to the edge of their lips with a mighty suck . |
| 13 | And that get us up to a certain distance , but even then that method must fail when you get beyond a certain distance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Income seems more closely related to whether or not people have ever used any form of credit than any other characteristic : the higher someone 's income ( at least up to a certain level ) , the more likely they are to have used at least some sort of credit sometime . |
| 16 | This registration procedure is part of the Museum and Galleries Commission work to ensure that all Museums come up to a certain level of competence , and to ensure the future well being of their collections . |
| 17 | In conclusion , the present study indicates that there is an increasing enterochromaffin like cell density with increasing gastrin concentration up to a certain level , and increasing the gastrin concentration above this level does not lead to further hyperplasia . |
| 18 | So we 're trying to bring everyone up to a certain level in certain selected topics — aspects of mechanics , heat , wave motion . |
| 19 | Bank overdraft Flexible borrowing up to a certain ceiling for people with bank accounts , usually without security , and paid off over a few months , but can be extended over several years ; interest , calculated each day on how much the account is overdrawn that day , fluctuates in line with bank base rates ( usually about two per cent higher ) . |
| 20 | Shop budget account Credit facility from a particular shop , up to a certain ceiling which is a multiple ( say , twenty times ) of fixed monthly payments ( say £5 ) ; interest , at rate which may occasionally be changed , charged on what is owed . |
| 21 | I TRY TO WORK AGAINST THE WAY I WAS TAUGHT , WHICH WAS TO WORK ON THE PAINTING AS A WHOLE AND BRING THINGS UP TO A CERTAIN DEGREE OF FINISH |
| 22 | I try to work against the way I was taught , which was to work on the paintings as a whole and bring things up to a certain degree of finish . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The banks or organisations that issue them guarantee payment of bills run up by the credit card holder up to a certain limit . |
| 25 | payments should be 100% of loss up to a certain limit , and tapered down in varying proportions thereafter . |
| 26 | Up to a certain limit . |
| 27 | Workers will now have to apply to the Department of Employment , which steps in and pays redundancy money in cases like this , up to a certain limit . |
| 28 | Not directly but you can make one in that how that once everybody gets , once you have the resources to raise everybody up to a certain sort of acceptable standard of living , then you can redistribute those resources and you are , you are , y you 'll be able to eliminate poverty |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Precisely for this reason [ the anarchic factor ] there may be errors up to a certain point . |