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Example sentences for "certain lines"

  • It is found however that the barrel of these boilers is peculiarly liable to furrowing, owing to the strain weakening the iron in certain lines.

  • The boiler was intended for two tubes, and therefore there was a large part supported only by stays, allowing of a slight movement with varying pressure which facilitates the corrosion in certain lines of strain called "furrowing.

  • By this method the absolute magnitude, and hence the distance of a star is accurately determined from estimates of the relative intensities of certain lines in stellar spectra.

  • The absolute magnitude of a star is inferred from the relative intensities of certain lines in its spectrum, so that the observed apparent magnitude at once enables us to calculate the distance of the star.

  • If He wills to have creatures, He must likewise will to bind them to certain lines of action: which will to bind in God is a law to the creature.

  • God wills to bind His creatures to certain lines of action, not arbitrary lines, as we saw, but the natural lines of each creature's being.

  • Certain lines in the twelfth and thirteenth books of the Iliad are chosen, and transformed, with disastrous effects, from hexameters into two varieties of tetrameters.

  • Ruskin restricted and perverted their art ideals on certain lines as Carlyle crushed ethical discrimination.

  • Why do certain lines in a poem, curves of beauty in a statue, colour in a picture, produce in us the feelings of beauty and delight?

  • This form is favored in certain lines of business where merchandise returns are frequent.

  • Tabular Sales Book ] In certain lines of business a record of quantities of different kinds of merchandise sold is of almost equal value to records of values.

  • In certain lines of business it is desirable to make two sales sheets, one of which is retained in a binder for an office record and the other is used for various purposes.

  • In certain lines of business which sell three or four varieties of goods, it is desirable to analyze the weights or quantities in the proper columns, which in turn manifold onto the sales sheets, as shown in Fig.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain bodies; certain cells; certain class; certain definite; certain degree; certain distances; certain evening; certain fixed; certain forms; certain lady; certain lands; certain members; certain natural; certain occasions; certain person; certain portions; certain regions; certain respect; certain sections; certain size; certain specified; certain state; certain temperature; certain types; certain ways; certain weight