The phrase "attachment to a certain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a strong emotional connection or preference towards a specific person, object, or idea.
Example: "Her attachment to a certain childhood toy made it difficult for her to let it go."
Alternatives: "affection for a particular" or "bond with a specific".
My stance is entirely based in emotion: I have an emotional attachment to a certain vision of New York, and that vision includes a good indie bookstore on the L.E.S.
An odd — but noteworthy — example of what one person's attachment to a certain celebrity can do to a vehicle's auction price was demonstrated three years ago with the late actor James Coburn's 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder.
Rosin's view was that the attitudes were largely irrelevant: they were bound to change, she said, and they "reflected more a lingering attachment to a certain ideal" — the way we in America pay lip service to traditional family values — than "a measure of how we want to live and definitely not of how we do live".
I can understand a hose gun attachment to a certain extent, but this is kind of nuts.
Important differences of applying income and education as proxy for patients' SES are noted, which may be ascribed to endogeneity of income, i.e., that income, alike other measures of labor market attachment, to a certain extent is determined by morbidity.
While income, alike other measures of labor market attachment, to a certain extent is explained by morbidity and thus endogenous, education is more decisive for patients' ability to take advantage of the more specialized services provided in a universal health care system.
There is often a certain sentimental attachment to a local brewery.
According to Motorola, its MyMail Desktop Plus software ($50), due this summer, will let a P935 (or T900) issue wireless commands to your Windows PC, telling it, for example, to send a certain file as an attachment to a colleague -- a genuinely useful stunt for the absent-minded traveler.
They define a certain kind of jagged, cowboy masculinity, and a sentimental, archaic attachment to a world of oath and loyalty and honour.
Increasing people's attachment to an area.
She has an attachment to certain objects that often verges on obsession.
