Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] certain [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But cancer may take decades to develop , and we know that if we are prepared to make certain changes in how we live , we can help to protect ourselves . |
| 2 | There can be nothing really ‘ clinching ’ in philosophy : ‘ proofs ’ and ‘ disproofs ’ hold only for those who adopt certain premisses ‘ who are willing to follow certain rules of argument , and who use their terms in certain definite ways . |
| 3 | It is not surprising , therefore , that it is very stressful for CAB advice workers when they find that there are times when they are unable to help certain clients . |
| 4 | I would like to say that , that the level of violence has been fairly static , but at the same time we are able to tolerate certain levels of violence . |
| 5 | Vested interests , notably the military , but also the US middle classes who do well from social security ( but not ‘ welfare ’ ) , are happy to keep certain elements in the budget . |
| 6 | Your ruler , Mercury , turns retrograde on the 11th which means that from this point you must be prepared to sit certain situations out and not to expect an immediate response from people . |
| 7 | Conversely , it may not be hard to relinquish certain roles and tasks which were never experienced as rewarding . |
| 8 | However , you may only have one General , so you will not be able to use certain characters together . |
| 9 | It was clear almost from the outset that the final instrument would have to be able to compute certain parameters of its measurement function , in order to cope with variations in environment . |
| 10 | The right person may just happen to come along , or it may be necessary to take certain steps to help this happen . |
| 11 | ‘ They are using the computer to gauge who would be suitable to attend certain meetings : they may want to exclude some of them . ’ |
| 12 | A degree of violence might also be sufficient to control certain types of behaviour for which conviction was difficult or unlikely . |
| 13 | It should be mistrust hospitals because the people who work in the service were all guaranteed certain things which have not come to pass whatsoever . |
| 14 | Dr Prendergast , of Birmingham Children 's Hospital , said : ‘ Once the epileptic label sticks it often does n't get reviewed and leads to people not being able to do certain jobs or drive . |
| 15 | Huxley 's effort to create a scientific ‘ biology ’ based on morphology and physiology had broken down , partly because it was obvious that field studies were necessary to solve certain kinds of biological questions . |
| 16 | RFL principals of an MNP are not prohibited from having separate legal practices as foreign lawyers , but they are obliged to institute certain safeguards so as to ensure that clients of the foreign legal practice do not believe they are receiving services through an MNP . |
| 17 | Basic banks are obliged to maintain certain reserves , which consist of cash in hand and deposits at the National Bank . |
| 18 | Breach of the partnership agreement It is usual to specify certain provisions of particular importance ( eg failing to maintain proper accounts or actions which might cause the firm to lose its investment business certificate ) the breach of which would enable the power of expulsion to be exercised and , in a further ground , to refer in more general terms to persistent and general failure to observe the spirit of the agreement . |
| 19 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
| 20 | A substantial number of miscible blends have now been discovered using this principle and it is possible to identify certain groups or repeat units , which when incorporated in polymer chains tend to enter into these intermolecular interactions and enhance the miscibility . |
| 21 | It rests on the assumption that it is possible to produce large quantities of almost identical items in a modem industrial process , and therefore it is possible to establish certain tolerances within which quality is acceptable , and outside which it is not acceptable . |
| 22 | But I can see circumstances in which a patient is unwilling to have certain procedures carried out and says so under the impression that in any event the emergency which would bring those procedures into play will not happen . |
| 23 | Given that so much of the occupationalist initiative in education and outside ( YTS , etc. ) is aimed at the lower academic ability bands , it is useful to emphasize certain points : |
| 24 | However the development of negligence doctrines means that it is convenient to consider certain defences which have particular relevance to negligence at this stage . |
| 25 | The idea that something so apparently soft and harmless has pain-inflicting daggers on the ends of the feet is enough to disturb certain infants and to make them distrust the approaches of all felines . |
| 26 | To learn effectively it is necessary to grasp certain principles and rules , and these rules would be particular to individual academic disciplines . |
| 27 | Before looking at some of the major issues raised in the study of social stratification , it is necessary to examine certain aspects of stratification systems . |
| 28 | … To this general test it is necessary to add certain amplifications . |
| 29 | The Commission recognises that to achieve this objective it is necessary to reserve certain areas exclusively to the national postal administrations . |
| 30 | As a result , it was possible to draw certain conclusions : |