Example sentences of "certain [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1874 and 1883 Sophus Lie ( pronounced " Lee " , Norwegian ) used the idea to attempt a classification and simplification of the solutions to certain differential equations . |
| 2 | Further , there are certain exceptions to the charge , the best known being the first £2,500 recovered or preserved in certain matrimonial proceedings . |
| 3 | Appointing authorities sometimes get drawn into arguments about whether members of certain professional firms could be independent in a dispute because of their firm 's relationship with one of the parties . |
| 4 | It is one thing for the Association to demand certain professional standards of its members ( as formulated in the Code of Professional Conduct ) , and to expect them to have loyalty to these rather than to the employer in any dispute , but the professional association itself has to be seen to take a strong stand in support of its membership , or indeed against its membership , if such situations of conflict arise . |
| 5 | If you feel you 'd like to concentrate on the accountancy , it 's worth knowing that the Open University reduces the number of credits needed for a BA degree for people with ‘ advanced standing ’ through certain professional qualifications . |
| 6 | Later , Stephen being absent , Jack looks to music to calm certain professional anxieties but in exploring the great Chaconne of the Partita in C he is almost unnerved by the force of the work compared with the Scarlatti and Hummel pieces with which he and Stephen had so often relaxed . |
| 7 | Neutralisation has an established legal pedigree and in contemporary conditions it remains a possible political formula to resolve or dampen down certain regional conflicts or to stabilise regional conditions which otherwise could escalate into a superpower confrontation . |
| 8 | However , certain situational factors can transform it into enjoyable and legitimate police work . |
| 9 | This is a phenomenon which most of us experience from time to time , particularly when performing a highly practised task like driving a car or using a keyboard , and which the clinician often feels presents in exaggerated form in certain neurological conditions . |
| 10 | I could not escape concluding during subsequent weeks that there were certain strong prejudices and preferences within the organisation . |
| 11 | Always an independent spirit , Rita nevertheless acknowledges certain strong influences in her movement career — Edith , Molly , Rita Horton , and in Coburg , Jutta Holler-von der Trenck ; she believes that her feeling for the importance of expression in movement , and her interest in the choreographing of taped music derive from her contact with Christa Haring , whose classes in Contemporary Dramatic Dance she attended . |
| 12 | The near 50-page document told prospective buyers that there were certain administrative problems but that they were being sorted out by a consultant . |
| 13 | The near 50-page document told prospective buyers that there were certain administrative problems but that they were being sorted out by a consultant . |
| 14 | He had come , he believed , because he needed to discuss certain administrative problems with Frederica . |
| 15 | Although , today , justices of the peace are thought of primarily as being judicial bodies , they nevertheless retain certain administrative functions ( the best known of which is the issuing of liquor licences ) which , however , are a pale shadow of their former role . |
| 16 | Certain administrative changes at this time appear designed to effect a stricter supervision by the Exchequer over the collection of the Forest revenues , and to lessen the temptation to extortion by the Forest officers . |
| 17 | He said : ’ There are certain administrative arrangements which are handled by the Commission and which are clearly defined in the Treaty of Rome , and they can not go beyond their powers . |
| 18 | Another self-protection form of distraction is practised by certain orb-web spiders . |
| 19 | The results agree with Bellugi 's interpretations , though certain striking differences between speech and sign coding begin to emerge . |
| 20 | To determine if any excess of childhood leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma was associated with certain striking examples of population mixing in rural Scotland produced by the North Sea oil industry . |
| 21 | First , legislation allowed paid release only for certain stipulated categories ; these were for the most part workplace stewards and health and safety representatives . |
| 22 | As we discuss below , these include the degree of centralisation of union and employer bodies , the level of trade union density , strike patterns and certain economic consequences which also appertain to bargaining structures . |
| 23 | A great many liberal writers , Dworkin included , would support just such a proposition which is consistent with Rawls 's well-known thesis that the individual , and particularly the least well-off , do have certain economic rights against the state , founded on justice , which not even the welfare of society as a whole can override . |
| 24 | This first wave of indigenization had few practical effects , and Nigeria 's many TNCs managed to evade serious loss of control by enlisting members of the local bourgeoisie to ‘ front ’ for them , a universal practice where there are restrictions on foreigners engaging in certain economic activities . |
| 25 | The Treat negotiated at Maastricht laid down the process under which the Community can , if its members meet certain economic conditions , create a monetary union with a single currency for some or all of them . |
| 26 | More precisely , the government has certain economic objectives that it would wish to achieve , and all are affected in some way by national income levels . |
| 27 | Certain unwritten rules may apply with regard to hospitality . |
| 28 | In brief , the good leader , the man who could inspire his army , not merely he who could avoid the obvious pitfalls of generalship which Frontinus had pointed out , might be born with certain inherent qualities , but these had to be developed in the only way that could lead to success , through practice and experience . |
| 29 | He argued that the international monetary system , based largely on the dollar , contained certain inherent contradictions . |
| 30 | At the most fundamental level the primary objective of any training is to be effective , but to achieve this , as the Working Party on Training noted , the process , or ‘ cycle ’ of training , has certain inherent needs of its own . |