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Example sentences for "under certain"

  • It will grow, it is claimed, under certain conditions on such soils so surcharged with alkali as to prohibit almost every other form of vegetable growth.

  • Under certain conditions of soil and climate, this crop may be sown on plowed or disked land in certain of the States, after a crop of grain, and in other instances by sowing amid the stubbles and covering with the harrow.

  • It is pre-eminently the catch crop for the orchardist and the market gardener, and yet it may be made the catch crop also of the farmer, under certain conditions.

  • Footnote 17: I believe that, under certain circumstances, the erythema papulatum of the new-born is often mistaken for measles.

  • According to this observer, the cell-contents were transformed, under certain circumstances, into a substance resembling externally clotted fibrin.

  • The coexistence in the kidney of colloid accumulations and watery cysts has led to the view that the latter may, under certain circumstances, result from the former through the liquefaction of the colloid material.

  • Nearly all colloids are capable of passing, under certain circumstances, from a soluble into an insoluble state.

  • It would be found in a more extended series of experiments that the same metal will, under certain conditions, form two or more oxides differing among themselves in the amount of oxygen they contain.

  • Under certain conditions, however, it has a tendency to cause the formation of volatile chlorides with a consequent loss of metal.

  • When a sensation arises in the mind, it may, under certain circumstances, go unattended to.

  • It has been claimed by many that the results of a lie would, under certain circumstances, justify the use of a lie,--the good end in this case justifying the bad means in this case.

  • A lie is inconsistent with confidence; and the knowledge that a lie is, under certain circumstances, deemed proper by a man, throws doubt on all that that man says or does under any circumstances.

  • The instruction on horseback can, under certain circumstances, be considered as connected with this course; and questions are asked during the time when the sub-lieutenants are not engaged in actual riding exercise.

  • The provinces have also their ancient Estates or Parliaments, Standing Committees of which might, under certain circumstances, sit at times when the Estates were not assembled.

  • Under certain circumstances, they share with the Mining Engineers the duty of inspecting steam-engines.

  • And these two commonest elements have, under certain conditions, a rare affinity for each other.

  • Thermit, as this process is called, is perhaps the only means whereby, under certain conditions, this can be accomplished.

  • Under certain conditions it could be converted from the responsive to an irresponsive state, either temporarily as by anæsthetics, or permanently as by poisons.

  • Such matter as is not removed by filtration may, under certain conditions, be handled by surface blowing.

  • As stated above, the best stoker will cause smoke under certain conditions.

  • Edmund is what, under certain circumstances, any man of powerful intellect might be, if some other qualities and feelings were cut off.

  • I believe it possible that a man may, under certain states of the moral feeling, entertain something deserving the name of love towards a male object--an affection beyond friendship, and wholly aloof from appetite.

  • My experience with rockets goes to justify me in asserting that rockets discharged from a gun, under certain circumstances, can be as effectually controlled, and kept to a direct course, as a bullet fired from a rifle.

  • Therefore, under certain circumstances, sulphur may be dispensed with; but to make a good gunpowder, nitre and charcoal are indispensable.

  • Under certain conditions of concentration and temperature, the dark ‹green› sulphide MnS is precipitated.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about right; first principle; kindly tone; through whom; under any; under circumstances; under colour; under convoy; under date; under fire; under foot; under ground; under guard; under heaven; under present; under similar; under such; under the present system; under the same circumstances; under the same conditions; under various; underground water; underparts white; understand that; understand them; understand what