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Example sentences for "certain part"

  • Hence, when a certain part must be turned, the question is, what kind of machine should be used, assuming that it would be possible to employ several different machines?

  • His good-natured, smiling face appealed to a certain part of Daisy Home, not a very high part certainly, but with the charming frankness of babyhood, the part appealed to gave utterance to its desire.

  • In a certain part of that vast pile, all wills are obliged to be kept.

  • She told him that she had some business to transact, but that he might meet her at a certain part of the Embankment in an hour.

  • The fact that, each one of these thoughts is expressed by a certain colour indicates that the thought expresses itself as an oscillation of the matter of a certain part of the mental body.

  • The body which we can see, the body which is born and dies, is a garment which he puts on for the purposes of a certain part of his evolution.

  • This procedure may be used in dropsical cases and in certain cases, where for some reason the fluid does not reach a certain part, or where a certain part is not completely supplied with fluid, by the arterial injection.

  • Then, if for any reason the fluid has not reached a certain part, fermentation, and putrefaction will immediately set in.

  • Each of the vassal princes had to live in the capital during a certain part of every year; and Brasseur de Bourbourg, following Ordonez, thinks that Mayapan may have formed a confederacy with Tulha and Palenque in Chiapas.

  • And she pointed with her quavering finger to a certain part of the ceiling whence came the tramp!

  • We suppose consciousness to be coextensive with a certain part of nature and not with all of it.

  • But this indetermination cannot be complete; it must leave a certain part to determination.

  • Now there was in a certain part of that castle and in the midst of a long passageway a trap-door that opened through the floor of the passageway and so into a deep and gloomy pit beneath.

  • After that the damsel led Sir Ewaine to a certain part of the castle and up a long flight of steps and so brought him to an apartment that was immediately beneath the eaves of a certain part of the tower of the castle.

  • Now near to a certain part of the field-of-battle the trees of the forest came down close to the meadow, and made, as it were, a green wall of foliage circumjacent to that part of the field.

  • How would it do, for instance, if a certain part of the price per cwt.

  • Is there not a certain part of it, in both cases, that you can get money for?

  • They thought that a man was as it were a certain part of the state, and of the whole human race, and that he was connected with other men by a sort of human society.

  • It is notorious that the devil was seen in a temple which they had in a certain part of the district of Cunti-suyu, and I have heard of certain Spaniards, in the present times, who saw apparitions of this our enemy.

  • The customs of the people are the same, except that these are a better disposed race, and that the women wear a small mantle to cover a certain part of their bodies, and the men do the same.

  • Bayham still condescended to contribute; and a satisfactory announcement in a certain part of that paper, that on such a day, in Hyde Park Gardens, Mrs. Clive Newcome had presented her husband with a son.

  • I smile as I think how much dining has been already commemorated in these veracious pages; but the story is an everyday record; and does not dining form a certain part of the pleasure and business of every day?

  • Reaching the orchard he crossed to a particular corner and halted before a certain part of the red brick wall where grew the cherry tree in question.

  • All at once he started, lifted his head and glanced across at a certain part of the old, red-brick wall and, dropping his pen, got stealthily to his feet.

  • Symmetry is a proper agreement between the members of the work itself, and relation between the different parts and the whole general scheme, in accordance with a certain part selected as standard.

  • Proportion is a correspondence among the measures of the members of an entire work, and of the whole to a certain part selected as standard.

  • There is nothing to which an architect should devote more thought than to the exact proportions of his building with reference to a certain part selected as the standard.

  • If, according to his reply, I thought it as well not to receive him, I pressed a button, and a white mark that appeared in a certain part of the hall announced I was not at home to him.

  • It is a painful confession for a man destined eventually to fill a certain part in the annals of conjuring to make, that my trial-piece turned out so lamentably.

  • I am, therefore, inclined to make the communication I have stated, that a single mark placed in a certain part of a card is sufficient to make it known.

  • In a certain part of the country there was a well-to-do farmer, whose marriage had brought him one son, whom he petted beyond all measure, as a cow licks her calf.

  • Having agreed upon a scheme, they all went to the ape's house, in his absence; and each one having undertaken to play a certain part, they waited in secret for their enemy to come home.

  • Once upon a time there was a crab who lived in a marsh in a certain part of the country.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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