Example sentences of "in certain [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sociolinguists should therefore keep in mind the possibility that some women 's more standard speech could reflect the fact that class categorisation assumes parity between married couples , whereas in certain relevant ways they do not have parity . |
| 2 | However , in certain limited circumstances you can make voluntary contributions to make up a shortfall in a particular year . |
| 3 | The experience of PNP , as recorded in our eleven interim reports and the previous six chapters , suggests that the extent of LEA centralization over PNP was excessive , and that in certain crucial respects it was counter-productive . |
| 4 | It could well be useful in certain respiratory conditions he thought , but there was a danger that just as a candle burns out much quicker in oxygen , one might ‘ live out too fast ’ . |
| 5 | As the century grew older , this belief in divine intervention in the minutiae of life became less common ; but in certain devout households it was still alive at the century 's end . |
| 6 | In certain social groups it is possible to examine replacement rates , namely the number of children in a family who survived to adulthood . |
| 7 | That in certain threatening situations they are able to react , almost instantaneously , to the characteristic scent of an aggressor is hardly surprising . |