Example sentences of "more than a certain [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This most frequently involved the use of ceilings : banks being told not to allow advances to expand by more than a certain percentage compared with the previous year . |
| 2 | between aiding suicide and making available , for example , certain drugs to relieve pain which , if more than a certain dosage is taken , will cause death . |
| 3 | In fact , financial targets might be seen as equivalent to constraints imposed by shareholders in a public company who require dividends of a certain level ( or indeed as related to constraints on regulated companies who must earn no more than a certain return on capital ; see chapter 5 ) . |
| 4 | This ensures that the manager seeks the artist 's permission before spending more than a certain amount of money . |
| 5 | If there is more than a certain amount , gravity will in due course draw the galaxies back together . |
| 6 | Conservative backbenchers put pressure on the government to provide safeguards for households which would lose by more than a certain amount . |
| 7 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | If you see and screen more than a certain target number of patients you will get paid more . ’ |
| 11 | What is being proposed at the moment , however , is no more than a certain view of our conception of causation . |
| 12 | There are also diagnostics allowing a recalculation of the ‘ good ’ reference levels if the number of bad readings exceeds a predetermined level or an output of warning messages if any of the measurements used in computing the average is more than a certain tolerance from the mean . |
| 13 | A haulier must register for VAT if there are reasonable grounds for believing that its contracts will bring in more than a certain sum per year . |
| 14 | In certain mines the men were not allowed to earn more than a certain sum but there is no evidence of this invidious practice at Coniston . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This option is chosen automatically when more than a certain number of measurements fall outside a certain tolerance . |