Example sentences of "have [art] certain [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the company has a certain range of manufacturing skills which it attempts to employ in the most productive manner . |
| 2 | For such a beginning writer in such a situation , it may well turn out that a minor master like Landor is more fruitfully instructive than a major master like Milton or Keats : and if it does turn out so , one has a certain debt of honour that must be paid to the past master by whom one was liberated . |
| 3 | As a result , each artist was chosen for at least four reasons , but with a common denominator : we decided to present individuals operating from an independent position , whose work has a certain degree of complexity and can not be reduced to one or two key ideas . |
| 4 | In his various schools in lower Egypt Nasser has a certain self-consciousness as a saidi and one of peasant background . |
| 5 | And I realised early in life that each word has a certain presence for me , a texture , a weight . |
| 6 | Every teacher at whatever level of the hierarchy has a certain reservoir of skill , experience , aptitude and common sense , sufficient to enable some jobs to be accomplished swiftly , easily and confidently , but not others . |
| 7 | In this he perhaps sounds like a member of a Leavisite ‘ reverent-openness-before-life ’ school , but his concept of ostranenie already has a certain edge through being defined in opposition to the habitual . |
| 8 | It has a certain notoriety for its garlic-scented foliage , but anyone with a taste for good food will definitely find it rather pleasant ! |
| 9 | The great white has a certain notoriety for being the only shark species to attack humans without apparent cause . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He has a certain reputation in Hebron ( though not as much as the exaggerated courtesy of verse 6 would suggest ) , but no political power . |
| 12 | I 'm currently making frequent trips to Poland , and there one sees a type of early capitalism developing that has a certain charm like Visconti 's movies of the Fifties . |
| 13 | It is clear that , if normativist style has its roots in conservatism and liberalism , similarly one may say that the functionalist style has a certain affinity with a political theory of socialism . |
| 14 | What is the ‘ essence ’ or ‘ nature ’ of a horse , and why does it follow from this that a horse has a certain type of head or feet , or lives to the age it does ? |
| 15 | The purpose of this chapter , however , is not to suggest clever ways of reducing your liability — although in fact almost everyone has a certain amount of scope to do so without in any way cheating on the system . |
| 16 | But Prince Adam has a certain amount of clout , as he has recently brought off a resounding coup and made a grand gesture . |
| 17 | and it implies that any institution which serves as a channel for the articulation and aggregation of group interest in centre-periphery relations has a certain amount of autonomy , however limited that may be . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Every assignment has a certain amount of documentation attached to it . |
| 20 | But although Ralph 's business is being hit by the dispute , he has a certain amount of sympathy for his French counterparts . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If there are 2 or 300 people outside , the gig is sold out , and that term still has a certain magic in the music industry . |
| 24 | But ‘ are ’ also has a certain flavour of ‘ ought to be ’ : a lot of oral and written advice to women ( for example , in the problem pages of women 's magazines ) urges us to make use of this supposed talent . |
| 25 | And er , so it 's , it 's an attempt to work backwards , but it has a certain justification in analytic technique . |
| 26 | Art is not a race : there are pre-eminent writers and painters , but fashion has a certain hand in this . |
| 27 | It has a certain store of energy . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Stotting ’ has a certain ring to it for the waterfall-collection game . |
| 30 | This has a certain ring to it , but apparently it is not entirely accurate . |