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Example sentences for "certain point"

  • It is not all truth that triumphs in the world, nor all good; but only truth and good up to a certain point.

  • It is an art easily acquired up to a certain point, but beyond that point full of difficulty.

  • Up to a certain point it may be grown in the same house with Cucumbers; but after that point is reached, the two plants need widely different treatment.

  • He bade Lord Plowden proceed to a certain point in one direction, and that nobleman, followed by his valet with the gun and the stool, set meekly off without a word.

  • Up to a certain point, you are not so unlike other men.

  • So, after a certain point, each one of the fourteen men whom we're squeezing must be dealt with on a different footing.

  • It is true that by his intelligence he adds artificially to his natural forces, and that up to a certain point he actually succeeds in reigning physically over everything that is physical.

  • But the forces of nature can only be directed or turned aside up to a certain point; beyond that point they withdraw from the influence of man and place him under theirs.

  • The path to the castle slanted upward across the shoulder of the hill, to a certain point, and there some rude stone steps mounted more directly.

  • Yes, sir, generally; and up to a certain point, always.

  • But a short residence among the British Mountains will furnish abundant proof, that, after a certain point of elevation, viz.

  • But the resemblance is not to the adult fish or the adult reptile, but to the fish and reptile at a certain point in their foetal progress; this holds true with regard to the vascular, nervous, and other systems alike.

  • I recollect once hearing a celebrated professor of geology attempt to draw out the consequences which would have occurred, had there not been an outlet for the Thames, which exists in fact, at a certain point of its course.

  • Up to a certain point everything is faultless.

  • The objection will, no doubt, be immediately urged that a system of this kind would prevent any improvement of service from going beyond a certain point, just because it would cease to be profitable beyond a certain point.

  • It is extremely improbable that, even when officially recognized in this way, the process of corporate combination would go beyond a certain point.

  • To a certain point, gold and silver have a value.

  • It is sufficient that a census be established to reduce or fix the differences to a certain point.

  • Quiet, patient men, when goaded beyond a certain point, are capable of terrible ebullitions of anger, and Holcroft was no exception.

  • In a weak mind egotism and selfishness, beyond a certain point, pass into practical insanity.

  • I believe that he will be franked to a certain point, and is sure of a seat in another place, if not here.

  • The transition from the known to the unknown, from the simple to the complex, from the easy to the difficult, is reproduced, from a certain point of view; but with special characteristics.

  • Up to a certain point, they might correspond with the so-called didactic or objective material of the old methods.

  • His wife led him away, but from the window we saw the man stop at a certain point in the street, struggle with her, and come back in great agitation.

  • When the jack has risen to a certain point, its arm, B^1, catches against the button C and jerks it from under the notch at the very moment when the hammer strikes, so that it may not be blocked against the string.

  • However strong a boiler may be, it will burst if the steam pressure in it be raised to a certain point; and some device must therefore be fitted on it which will give the steam free egress before that point is reached.

  • By enriching the gas in carbon more light is yielded, up to a certain point, with a flame of a given temperature.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain animals; certain conditions; certain days; certain death; certain districts; certain fungi; certain length; certain limit; certain measure; certain members; certain moments; certain order; certain period; certain periods; certain price; certain proportion; certain quarters; certain seasons; certain temperature; certain times; certain tree; certain value; certain weight; certainly would; determining the; pretty much the same