Example sentences of "[subord] [art] certain [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 A distinction is made between sales negotiations , where a certain amount of bargaining may take place , and pure selling , where the salesman is given no freedom to bargain .
2 And although a certain number of eager thirty-something listeners will scan the radio dial in search of Mr Branson 's yuppie rock , more will discover the channel gradually , perhaps by accident .
3 Crunch exhibits exactly that , although a certain amount of brittleness does get in the way of the smooth , valve-based sound I tend to prefer .
4 Raglan seams can be designed with the same number of rows on both the armholes and body pieces if required ( so that patterns , stripes , decorative decreasings and so on , will match up at the seams ) , although a certain amount of trial and error with various measurements is necessary to achieve this .
5 This ensures that the manager seeks the artist 's permission before spending more than a certain amount of money .
6 It was difficult for our branch of the bank , which was not allowed to keep more than a certain amount of money in the safe , and often had to send documents and money to the head branch in Parma .
7 ‘ I think you deserve more than a certain amount of punishment for making me wet and nearly giving me a heart-attack — Do you know how difficult it would have been to get an ambulance out here to you ? ’
8 Also , it may be worth pointing out that most shareware distributors offer a policy whereby users buying more than a certain number of disks pay less per disk .
9 This option is chosen automatically when more than a certain number of measurements fall outside a certain tolerance .
10 Unlike in certain other European countries , British labour law sets no maximum duration to a temporary employment relationship , whereby all persons employed for longer than a certain period of time automatically have permanent status .
11 What is being proposed at the moment , however , is no more than a certain view of our conception of causation .
12 First , every Act of Parliament , in effect , says that if a certain state of facts exists the tribunal may do a certain thing ; those facts are always for the relative decision of the tribunal .
13 There were tribunals which had jurisdiction if a certain state of facts existed but not otherwise ; it was not then for the inferior tribunal to determine conclusively upon the existence of such facts .
14 Even if a certain amount of the succeeding material unmistakeably evokes the spirits of Soltan 's immediate Soviet musical forbears , his endlessly resourceful and distinctive orchestration ensures that passing resemblances are never unduly pronounced .
15 The new rules include a way in which national policy , currently decided at conference , can be overturned if a certain number of university unions oppose it .
16 No well erm , I did ask , old Chris spoke to me once in the park and then there 's and things like that , cos a certain amount of secrecy in the , things like that and erm I I sort of turned it down and he even er er er well while and and Len that said Stanley did you ever think about joining the Masons ?
17 ‘ Though miracles sometimes occur while a certain companion of ours is close at hand . ’
18 While a certain amount of stress can be positive — it provides energy which enables us to do the things we want to do — it only becomes a problem if it develops into distress .
19 I 'm beginning to wonder whether a certain amount of agony is n't inseparable from having relationships anyway ; that 's what relationships are , in fact , and that 's the pleasure of them .
20 We would all , I suppose , recognize that to write well and appropriately requires a grammatical sense ( as well as a certain number of other abilities ) .
21 The two sets of apparatus complement each other to a certain extent and also provide a useful means of cross-checking results , as well as a certain amount of friendly competition .
22 The second problem — which will increase in importance with the opening of the Scottish Science Reference Library in 1986 — is more difficult to solve , as a certain amount of delay is inevitable since most serials are acquired indirectly , through the Library 's Copyright Agent in London .
23 When a certain degree of proficiency has been reached , a student takes part in free fighting with a partner .
24 Part of the principle of equal treatment is that a compulsory bid must be made when a certain level of shareholdings is actually exceeded , namely a third of voting stock .
25 The fact that 3 of our patients had had brain cysticercosis might indicate that an abnormal AChE could be related to the intellectual deterioration in this disease , when a certain number of cysts are located in the regions responsible for memory and cognition .
26 When a certain number of choices have been logged , the computer will wipe the screen clean , " breed " from the preferred biomorph and display the next generation of mutant progeny .
27 Such a clock will wake an individual when a certain stage of the sleep/wake cycle is reached ; if he goes to bed late then that stage will be reached after a shorter period of sleep than usual .
28 The data themselves are not unproblematic , for a certain amount of error is inherent in the very process of analysis and measurement .
29 Though a certain amount of work has been done on the history of Africa 's media , there is room for research on a far larger scale .
30 Three-figure assessments were altogether lacking , though a certain amount of cloth working did support reasonable groups of the second rank in Hungerford and Wantage .
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