The phrase "a certain recognition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific acknowledgment or awareness of something, often in a vague or general sense.
Example: "The artist received a certain recognition for her innovative work in the community."
Alternatives: "some acknowledgment" or "a particular appreciation".
He met his fate Tuesday night with a certain recognition of inevitability.
Siaka Traoré, Bouna's brother, told French media: "There's progress, a certain recognition".
Haitian officials hope the world gives generously, though there is a certain recognition of donor fatigue, especially in the economic storm.
When a handful of wheezing golfers finally caught up with Tiger Woods there was a certain recognition that there had been a degree of unintended collaboration from the great man himself.
The group are now known simply as the Unthanks, changing their name to represent Becky's growing role in the group just as they are beginning to gain a certain recognition as Rachel Unthank and the Winterset.
There is also a certain recognition that since the 192 United Nations members are generally incapable of reaching agreement on pressing earthly matters like climate change, negotiating a protocol for alien encounters will be one long slog.
Now, with SNP arrays, such cases of incest will be readily identified with a test that will be widely applied for evaluation of children with disabilities; no parental sample is required for a near certain recognition that a child was born from an incestuous mating.
Douglass et al. (1986) found comparable results: in 60% of cases certain recognition was achieved with a combination of DPR and bitewing radiographs [ 19].
At the time we were struck by a certain unsentimental recognition of the fact of life in this statement.
Mechanisms explaining the direct relationship between GC content and recombination rate identify the presence of certain recognition motifs for DNA binding proteins that have a known function in meiosis or the recombination process directly, such as cohesin and PR domain-containing protein 9.
We therefore, hypothesized that certain ribonucleases like the aforementioned example could specifically process these lncRNA by certain recognition cues [ 38].
