Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [art] certain [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the seams of the canister are only designed to withstand a certain amount of pressure . |
| 2 | However , most Japanese businessmen acquainted with foreigners have come to expect a certain variety within reasonable limits in the dress of foreign businessmen . |
| 3 | In Por Tanssie , the vibrancers had always been instructed to keep a certain distance between them . |
| 4 | The other ( ‘ impression management' ) is based on the premise that an individual 's social behaviour is determined by his/her wish to create or sustain a social identity ( eg a desire to be seen to hold a certain attitude . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | without protest from a parent , without a protest from a hunter without a protest from er a anyone else , that is a shame , because I tell you what , if you go drag hunting , you can keep the jobs the people are still going to have to shoe the horses traders and people like that are still going to have to produce the carriages to take the horses with them and the only people job jobs are in jeopardy are not the kennel staff it 's the terrier men and to be quite honest , ladies and gentlemen , it 's the terrier men who have actually ruined your sport , cos of what they get up to in nineteen ninety three is a disgust and at the end of the day your P R has been absolutely wrong and I hope this afternoon that Conservatives and Liberals can join with us and I 've got to thank a certain Liberal because he 's he 's put his head on the block on several occasions on this when we stood on the platform as individuals , not as politicians , as individuals on this and I think that this afternoon we 've got a way forward , we can say to the hunt , come and talk you change , we 'll give you access . |
| 7 | that almost regardless of the number , you 've actually got to do a certain amount |
| 8 | Finally , in chapter 5 a theory of meaning was used to discredit a certain programme in epistemology . |
| 9 | I do n't want to be limited to , it 's got to have a certain colour , the fabrics . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | A gas which is usually found in car exhaust fumes might soon be used to cure a certain type of male impotence . |
| 13 | Relocation is bound to cause a certain amount of disruption in the running of the business . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Such drastic action was bound to invoke a certain cult appeal . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ We knew the health authority would be asked to provide a certain proportion . |
| 18 | He 's allowed to cultivate a certain amount as a favour . ’ |
| 19 | clearly the government is saying you are only allowed to plant a certain acreage , but that will clearly affect erm , farmers , farmers ' response . |
| 20 | It is as though , in our theory of how we came to exist , we are allowed to postulate a certain ration of luck . |
| 21 | For example , the description of the occasion as a ceremony might be taken to suggest a certain solemnity or reverence , that it was an occasion divorced from everyday life . |
| 22 | Until 1936 he had also continued to do a certain amount of coaching for the Victoria Tutorial College . |
| 23 | While other constitutional texts , where they existed at all , have for long periods been purely notional , national autonomy never ceased to have a certain operation reality . |
| 24 | I think he 'd tried to make a certain birdie but he 'd really come unstuck . |
| 25 | I mean you , if you 're sent to do a certain job now you 've just got to go and do it . |
| 26 | To be more exact , get itself evokes the efforts required to obtain a certain behaviour from someone or something and the to infinitive expresses the result obtained . |
| 27 | he or she is required to give a certain amount of notice . |
| 28 | As we try to decide what to eat , we notice that Denice has managed to do a certain amount of major structural damage to her menu , resulting to the pages ' coming out of the middle . |
| 29 | Er and we 're identifying that the clerical sections are required to do a certain number of things when the project arrives , like erm recording the project in the index book , creating a correspondence file , creating project admin wallets , and the like . |
| 30 | Evaluating more than two biopsy samples leads to an alignment in the number of crypts required to achieve a certain precision . |