Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [prep] certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the landlord succeeds in opposing the granting of a new tenancy , compensation may in certain circumstances be payable to the tenant . |
| 2 | Indeed , the findings of Brown and Harris ( 1978 ) suggest that a job outside the home may in certain circumstances help to maintain a mother 's mental health , in which case it may be beneficial to her relationships with her children . |
| 3 | The fifth judge , Stephen J. , appears to have considered that the wife 's consent to sexual intercourse would in certain circumstances be vitiated . |
| 4 | The second and less sweeping challenge to Hale came from Smith J. who , whilst accepting the contract and consent analysis , suggested that the consent could in certain circumstances be revoked by the wife . |
| 5 | Under the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956 , a hotel proprietor may in certain circumstances be liable to make good any loss of or damage to a guest 's property even though it was not due to any fault of the proprietor or staff of the hotel . |
| 6 | An expensive all-concrete , all-dredge , work-from-both-sides approach may in certain cases have much to recommend it to a few of the more old-fashioned river managers , especially since the cutting of straight ditches involves minimum initial design and subsequent supervision , combined with maximum actual earth-moving and construction works on the ground . |
| 7 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 8 | Instruments may , however , be executed before 20 August if they are binding and are signed and delivered unconditionally before that date even though the property may in certain circumstances be delivered after that date . |
| 9 | Yet it is a remarkable example of the way in which a Prime Minister may in certain circumstances be appointed almost by accident . |
| 10 | Because progress in learning a language is continuous but uneven , the definition of the different levels of attainment must in certain respects be a matter of judgement . |