The phrase "a certain collective" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific group of people or entities without naming them directly, often in a context where the identity of the group is either known or implied.
Example: "In the discussion about community engagement, a certain collective emerged as a key player in the local initiatives."
Alternatives: "a particular group" or "a specific assembly".
There also arises a certain collective mood which straightens up the ties among the group members and inclines them to act in a certain way.
At the same time that states did not want to create an Atlantic City or Vegas within their borders, they felt a certain collective guilt over the way Indians had been treated in the previous two centuries.
According to Lebourg, the popularity of this myth shows a certain collective immaturity.
The top story: a certain shadowy collective of Internet hackers takes down MasterCard and Visa.
3) Although the premise of "Prey" is that these particles supposedly have no memory capacity, there are certain collective behavior patterns that they definitely understand.
Although collective village organization persisted in the form of the rural commune and, with it, certain collective agricultural practices, the state seems to have made little or no attempt to bind the peasant to the soil upon which the tax registers had inscribed him.
Minorities enjoy certain collective rights.
Based on the cavity-bus assisted interaction, the selective and controllable interqubit couplings occur only by adjusting the individual gate pulses, by which we obtain the scalable DFS-encoded universal quantum gates to resist certain collective noises.
No matter who you are or where you come from, there are certain collective societal messages we subconsciously learn growing up.
And I must have been three or four shots in — we were drinking Wayne Peters's sweet-potato vodka — because I said, Look, kiddos, the truth is neither, because we have no idea what might happen, the infrastructure is still basically in place, especially if people from certain collectives hadn't stripped out the copper over in White River — No copper, no charging tower, she says.
What I like about bringing the piece back this time is that it still calls for and inspires a certain level of collective compassion.
