The phrase "a certain body of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific group or collection of things, people, or ideas that are not explicitly defined.
Example: "The researchers focused on a certain body of literature that addressed climate change."
Alternatives: "a specific group of" or "a particular set of".
In other words, if I know the truck is going out and stocking a certain body of water it doesn't mean that much.
With the retirement of each member of the carbon-paper cohort — my cohort — a certain body of collective knowledge, which for decades has lent the American work product an essential, indefinable, generational something, is eroded a little more.
But this is a wholly conventional phenomenon and there is no reason to suppose that what is sufficient to activate a certain body of law automatically activates a different set of moral principles as well.
Fiction, in my view, is much harder to do than fact, because the fiction writer moves forward by trial and error, while the fact writer is working with a certain body of collected material, and can set up a structure beforehand.
Fleck claimed that cognition is a collective activity, since it is only possible on the basis of a certain body of knowledge acquired from other people.
An explanatory argument is typically contrastive: it aims to show, for example, that one hypothesis is a better explanation of a certain body of facts than any rival hypothesis or than the disjunction of all rival hypotheses.
For BMI, the partner's BMI could be influenced by direct preferences for BMI i.e. preferences for a certain body shape independently of preferences for stature and body mass, or by preferences for stature and body mass which generate indirect preferences for BMI.
Those results provide a quantitative measure of the light transmitted through a certain body area as a function of the incident wavelength in the biologically significant optical transmission window.
By concentrating on a certain body area one could become aware of spontaneous activity of motoneurons or peripheral sensory afferents such as for example muscle or skin sympathetic nerve activity [ 31].
But the body's properties, such as its weight and its colour and its shape, are qualities that cannot be conceived to exist in isolation: they must be the weight, colour and shape of a certain body.
Day after day we're fed image after image of a certain body aesthetic: tanned, toned, waxed, oiled and perhaps a little digitally retouched.
