Example sentences of "[pers pn] has a certain [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 2 | Because he does not know other countries ' systems or customs , he has a certain narrowness of thinking , which we Europeans do not have , of course . |
| 3 | He has a certain reputation in Hebron ( though not as much as the exaggerated courtesy of verse 6 would suggest ) , but no political power . |
| 4 | But although Ralph 's business is being hit by the dispute , he has a certain amount of sympathy for his French counterparts . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ It has a certain character , you must admit . ’ |
| 7 | But it has a certain logic . |
| 8 | One can say that the whole material universe has a certain colour , but not that it has a certain position . |
| 9 | It has a certain notoriety for its garlic-scented foliage , but anyone with a taste for good food will definitely find it rather pleasant ! |
| 10 | It 's an attractive vision , up to a point , and it has a certain reality . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yes we we envisaged that that bottle it it it has a certain sort of cache about it so we we we expected that that er a lot of sales for that eventually would go through the on trade and er obviously if it 's on trade then er the thing is automatically re-collectable and recyclable . |
| 13 | It has a certain store of energy . |
| 14 | If one takes this as a statement obliquely concerning the Marxist political project , it has a certain validity , in that it brings out the difference between Marxism and ‘ meritocratic ’ , or social-democratic notions of ‘ equality of opportunity ’ : the Marxist project is not merely to allow access to the privileged classes for the most ‘ able ’ individuals from all sections of society , but to transform the class structure ( to eliminate private possession of the major means of production and hierarchical management , and to institute a democratically socialised appropriation ) . |
| 15 | ‘ It has a certain softness and richness , ’ he concluded , ‘ which is both its charm and its danger . ’ |
| 16 | Depending on how Dave makes this greeting , it has a certain meaning . |
| 17 | And er , so it 's , it 's an attempt to work backwards , but it has a certain justification in analytic technique . |
| 18 | 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 . |