Example sentences of "it has [art] certain [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The authority of civil association is an endowment which is not traceable to any particular source and which lies only in ‘ continuous acknowledgement ’ based not on acts of obedience ‘ but in the continuous recognition of the obligation to subscribe to its prescriptions because it has a certain shape ’ .
2 It has a certain character , you must admit . ’
3 But it has a certain logic .
4 One can say that the whole material universe has a certain colour , but not that it has a certain position .
5 It has a certain notoriety for its garlic-scented foliage , but anyone with a taste for good food will definitely find it rather pleasant !
6 It 's an attractive vision , up to a point , and it has a certain reality .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 It has a certain store of energy .
10 If one takes this as a statement obliquely concerning the Marxist political project , it has a certain validity , in that it brings out the difference between Marxism and ‘ meritocratic ’ , or social-democratic notions of ‘ equality of opportunity ’ : the Marxist project is not merely to allow access to the privileged classes for the most ‘ able ’ individuals from all sections of society , but to transform the class structure ( to eliminate private possession of the major means of production and hierarchical management , and to institute a democratically socialised appropriation ) .
11 It has a certain softness and richness , ’ he concluded , ‘ which is both its charm and its danger . ’
12 Depending on how Dave makes this greeting , it has a certain meaning .
13 And er , so it 's , it 's an attempt to work backwards , but it has a certain justification in analytic technique .
14 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 .
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