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Example sentences for "certain limit"

  • To say that deficiencies may be provided for by requisitions upon the States, is on the one hand to acknowledge that this system cannot be depended upon, and on the other hand to depend upon it for every thing beyond a certain limit.

  • The people can never err more than in supposing that by multiplying their representatives beyond a certain limit, they strengthen the barrier against the government of a few.

  • Beyond a certain limit no mechanical disruption of the body could hasten the process of decomposition.

  • There is a certain limit of time in less than which no amount of heat can melt the snow.

  • This reaction, so far as is known, does not proceed beyond a certain limit, probably because cyanogen, CN, itself breaks up into carbon and nitrogen.

  • This reaction cannot proceed beyond a certain limit because it is reversible.

  • When this simple growth passes a certain limit, that is fixed by the chemical constitution, it leads to the independent existence of the redundant growth-products.

  • When a rotating sun passes a certain limit of growth by the constant accession of falling meteorites, nebulous rings are detached at its equator by centrifugal force, and form into new planets.

  • In fact, it can only be sown then with the assurance that it will survive the winter north of a certain limit.

  • The more porous the soil and subsoil, the hotter the weather, the less the precipitation and the farther below the surface, up to a certain limit, the greater will be the amount of water needed.

  • Although possessed of a single stem when the plants are young, the number of the stems increases up to a certain limit, with the age of the plants and the number of the cuttings.

  • And up to a certain limit this is true, but there is always the question of what the limit is, inasmuch as many individuals pass through different emotional conditions at different stages.

  • Then again, all the members of the body move, within a certain limit, in perfect independence of all the rest.

  • Many little twigs in their turn, each free to move by itself within a certain limit, are ranged along their common centre, a branch.

  • I have said before, that when the medium between two oppositely electrified bodies is strained beyond a certain limit it gives way and, stated in popular language, the opposite electric charges unite and neutralize each other.

  • In trying the preceding experiment with the electric radiometer the potential should not exceed a certain limit, as then the electrostatic attraction between the vanes and the glass of the bulb may be so great as to stop the rotation.

  • The greater the surface of the plate, up to a certain limit, the easier the tube will light up.

  • The land which it makes private property, is land which has been assigned by colonial or agrarian commissioners, or land which has been occupied up to a certain limit.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain extent; certain great; certain groups; certain individuals; certain knowledge; certain lands; certain laws; certain length; certain number; certain occasion; certain parts; certain point; certain special; certain standard; certain thing; certain times; certain words; certain young; certainly true; certainly very; certainly will; four tablespoons; general laws; her son; marked beauty; prison strong