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Example sentences for "certain state"

  • A certain state of surrounding circumstances existed before we commenced the experiment; this is B C.

  • The word generosity expresses a certain state of mind, but being a term of praise, it also expresses that this state of mind excites in us another mental state, called approbation.

  • We are hungry, when the nerves of the stomach are in a certain state; we perceive the sun, when the organ of vision is in a certain state.

  • Thus it may he proved that hydrate of silica is acid, because it dissolves in alkalis and not in acids.

  • When we believe that we desire a certain state of affairs, that often tends to cause a real desire for it.

  • This certainly proves that the brain plays an essential part in the causation of memory, but does not prove that a certain state of the brain is, by itself, a sufficient condition for the existence of memory.

  • Very often the contracting parties stipulate expressly that the treaty shall be open to the accession of a certain State.

  • The skins are immersed for a night and a day, in a bran bath, in a certain state of fermentation, then worked on the horse, and salted, to preserve them till they are to be dyed.

  • The pieces of flint are laid on a strong grating, and pass through its meshes whenever they are reduced by the stamps to a certain state of comminution.

  • A little leaven,” that is, dough in a certain state of chemical action, impresses a similar chemical action upon “the whole lump.

  • To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.

  • To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.

  • It has been pointed out that muscles exist whose contractions are perceptible by us in a certain state of the system and unperceived in another state.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain branches; certain class; certain classes; certain districts; certain great; certain length; certain line; certain percentage; certain period; certain places; certain portion; certain price; certain proportion; certain quantity; certain races; certain respect; certain seasons; certain spot; certain things; certain times; certain type; certain words; certain young; elaborate system; she retorted; this custom