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Example sentences for "certain kind"

  • And it is also plain, I think, that in many cases of this kind the generalisation must consist in an assertion that when one man has a certain kind of perception, some other man generally has had some other perception or belief.

  • We feel a certain kind of freedom in acting according to our fancy, and, on the contrary, a certain kind of thraldom in labouring for obtaining a place.

  • However, a certain kind of subordination is to be observed whilst this is going on; for this people seem to adore their prince, and their prince appears to worship God.

  • How a certain kind of Pantagruelion is of that nature that the fire is not able to consume it.

  • I swear to thee that many times heretofore I have perceived and found in my codpiece a certain kind of energy or efficacious virtue much more irregular and of a greater anomaly than what I have related.

  • Moreover, there is a certain kind of official supervision of a private business which does not bring with it any divided responsibility.

  • It becomes in that case a responsibility, which requires for its fulfillment a certain kind of behavior on the part of himself and his fellow-Americans.

  • What I want to call attention to next is that the history of our country is not that monotonous repetition of a certain kind of historical data, however peculiar the data in themselves may be.

  • Not one of her callers could have charged her with manifesting a certain kind of misleading favor, but her little salon appeared as free from restraint as ever, and her manner as genial and lively.

  • It was recognized that she had a certain kind of loyalty which could be depended upon.

  • Unexpected circumstances might arise, and a steadfast course must win a certain kind of respect.

  • Simply that there is a special field in which, for uncounted centuries, poets have produced a certain kind of artistic effect.

  • Her solitary life had taken her into the very heart of nature, of a certain kind of dreaming, and longing for knowledge, but that was widely different from the every day knowledge of general living.

  • Mrs. Van Dorn paid a general outward respect to religion when she was with a certain kind of people, but she was of a sort of heathen who make gods for themselves.

  • We have seen that in some ages all was turned towards a certain kind of devotion, of studies and of exercises.

  • If the angels even have not a certain kind of body?

  • D'Alembert distinguished himself by his extraordinarily careful and polished Eloges, or obituary notices, which remain among the finest examples of critical appreciation of a certain kind to be found in literature.

  • The first regular historian who deserves mention is Charles Rollin, who perhaps had a longer and wider monopoly of a certain kind of historical instruction than any other author.

  • The brain is primarily an organ of a certain kind of behavior, not of knowing the world.

  • The environment provides a new stimulus by undergoing a certain kind of change, i.

  • As satisfying various wants it has a certain kind of value.

  • Doubtless Cobbens had killed himself politically, but he had won a certain kind of victory.

  • Now, this genealogical mania is a kind of midsummer madness that lasts in Warwick the year through, a lineal descendant, so to speak, of the witchcraft delusion; but it offers a certain kind of mental pemmican to impoverished minds.

  • A trumpet makes more noise of a certain kind than a telescope," she went on, "and the noise is what the people like.

  • The price of a certain kind of goods, or of an article, that is going out of style should be reduced to move it quickly.

  • Do you think it would increase sales to offer a money prize to the retailer selling the largest amount of a certain kind of your goods, the sale of which you wished materially to increase?

  • It ought, one would have thought, to have produced a certain kind of poetical temper, even though it were a temper of indolent enjoyment rather than of creative force.

  • The former did not deny to the conceptions of the understanding a certain kind of reality; but with them it was merely logical, with the others it was mystical.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain branches; certain days; certain depth; certain form; certain kind; certain kinds; certain laws; certain length; certain occasion; certain occasions; certain other; certain part; certain people; certain periods; certain portion; certain position; certain price; certain provisions; certain rate; certain sections; certain small; certain types; certain varieties; certain village; certain words; good evidence