Example sentences of "[adj] [art] certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | That one of them does n't really love the other ; that they love one another a certain amount but not enough ? |
| 2 | There is overall a certain uniformity to the record . |
| 3 | Linguistic ability can not be measured directly , but only via elicitation procedures which attempt to make visible a certain aspect of a child 's language . |
| 4 | There 'll be lots of trouble this week but it wo n't matter , because however many upheavals you go through , or how confused a certain matter becomes , you 'll end up feeling renewed , refreshed and re-inspired . |
| 5 | In 1948 a certain M. ( Micky ) K. Watson was elected on to the committee , beginning a special relationship with the Club that was to last some 30 years and prove instrumental in its recovery , simultaneously adding significantly to the quality of both the Club 's social and golfing amenities . |
| 6 | In 1575 a certain Peter Morris of Dutch extraction obtained a licence from the queen to employ engines , or mills , for draining ; and in 1589 Humphrey Bradley , who , despite his name , came from Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands , presented a treatise to Elizabeth 's chief minister , Lord Burghley . |
| 7 | This makes perfect sense in that a certain intimacy is restored and those r'n'r roots show when ‘ Julian H Cope ’ offers up a Lou Reed pastiche — with ‘ Summertime Blues ’ thrown in — masquerading as a song . |
| 8 | The superstar is doubly lucky in that a certain aloofness — a concentration on tomorrow 's battle for supremacy — is expected . |
| 9 | The transactions demand is related to the function money performs as a medium of exchange in that a certain quantity of money balances is required by economic transactors simply to purchase the goods and services they expect to buy during the period in question . |
| 10 | This may be dealt with in some way in the contract in that a certain notice period may have been specified and this may have been adhered to by the parties . |
| 11 | Although unnecessary with S.pombe , in cases where there is uncertainty whether probe a is positive for clone c , the hybridisation event may be given a grey-level 0 < h ac < 1 , with 1 indicating a certain positive and 0 a certain negative . |
| 12 | You may want to be sure a certain heirloom — perhaps worth little financially — will be passed on to a particular person . |
| 13 | Doctrines of governmental restraint are those which deny the government 's right to pursue certain valuable goals , or require it to maintain undisturbed a certain state of affairs , even though it could , if it were to try , improve it . |
| 14 | The troubles in Kent dragged on sporadically for some two years ; in August 1450 a certain William Parmenter virtually proclaimed himself Cade 's successor by calling himself the second captain of Kent , in April 1451 there were troubles fomented by Henry Hasilden , and in May 1452 there was yet further disorder ( 42 ) . |
| 15 | Do you see in the first two movements of the Fifth and in the whole of the Sixth a certain prophetic note , or do you see them in purely musical terms ? |
| 16 | In 1337 a certain Robert Gyan was submitted to a brutal penance by the dean of Wells for carrying away ‘ a great number of alder ’ from Stan Moor in the Somerset Levels . |
| 17 | Faith as I see it — by a Layman ’ ; and although there was first a certain amount of debate about what the nature and title of the broadcasts should be , Lewis began to do this in the late summer of 1941 , taking the train from Oxford to London every Wednesday evening , and broadcasting from 7.45 to 8.00 p.m . |
| 18 | To come upon someone with it curling all over his face is astonishing enough to overlook at first a certain glassiness to his left eye — until , that is , he absent-mindedly lets it fall to dangle from its string . |
| 19 | Then , in 1982 a certain Richard Branson came knocking on his door . |
| 20 | Delving into the local history of the area , I discovered with amusement that in the early 1850s a certain superintendent of the then London & Birmingham Railway works at Wolverton had designed a fast new locomotive . |
| 21 | In 1868 a certain Mr Vester of New Jersey devised an elaborate coffin with a narrow passage , leading to an exit elevated above ground . |
| 22 | There was , however , he suggests , a shift away from legal moralism , and through the reformist legislation of the 1960s a certain amount of ‘ piecemeal moral engineering ’ was achieved . |
| 23 | On its debit side there is sometimes observable a certain strange ordering of priorities in moral codes and very often the systematic and conscious neglect of many aspects of African culture , particularly that great cultural legacy , music and the dance . |
| 24 | By the 1980s a certain amount of international agreement had developed , suggesting that a country 's spending on research should be justified in primarily economic terms — in terms of the technical innovations which research could deliver to the economy . |
| 25 | intelligent a certain amount of intuition and |