Example sentences of "it be certainly [adj] that [art] " in BNC.

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1 It 's certainly true that the pressure on you builds up as the terms go on — but training is not designed to destroy you , but to challenge you .
2 It 's certainly true that the methods of treatment that we use in miocenia gravis at the moment are not specific .
3 It is certainly essential that the grounds on which the discretion to refuse relief can be exercised should be spelled out as clearly as possible , and that those grounds should be supportable by rational argument .
4 It is certainly possible that the confluence of various tides of change in assessment policy will prove instrumental in creating a wave of sufficient magnitude to bring about a revolution in attitudes to 16+ certification : of generating a degree of momentum that no single initiative could achieve by itself .
5 It is certainly possible that the distinctions between different types of variable drawn by Dressler and Wodak and by Kerswill will turn out to be methodologically important in as much as they yield new insights into the principles underlying patterns of variation and processes of change .
6 It is certainly true that no two zebras are exactly alike in the details of their black and white lines .
7 It is certainly true that a great deal of the competition between nationalists and unionists concerned the distribution of resources .
8 Now it is certainly true that a complex whole necessarily contains relations of subordination and domination if the presence of principal and secondary contradictions within it is made into a defining characteristic .
9 It is certainly true that a State of Emergency was in effect for most of the period of hostilities , being lifted in January 1987 .
10 It is certainly true that a few generalisations can be made about the attitudinal functions of some components of intonation .
11 While it is certainly true that the central core never issued a single agreed programme , a considerable degree of cohesion does emerge from an examination of their critical writings , and an impression of shared novelistic values is suggested by their willingness ( to a greater or lesser extent ) to appear on the same platform at conferences on several occasions and to accept , however grudgingly , the ‘ nouveau roman ’ appellation .
12 More neutrally it is certainly true that the range of courses we offer continues to increase .
13 It is perhaps overstating the case to say that motorists can speed with impunity in residential areas , but it is certainly true that the limit is widely disregarded and rarely enforced .
14 It is certainly true that the huge costs of new model development , including the cost of meeting higher environmental standards , have forced many European car manufacturers to collaborate or merge .
15 It is certainly true that the priorities favoured by one style of management have no guarantee of being upheld by another .
16 It is certainly true that the climate for attracting new recruits to the professions is not improved by continued reporting on the doom and gloom aspects of working in the NHS .
17 TNC has been strongly attacked for taking a very narrow and old fashioned view of the curriculum as a collection of subjects ; and it is certainly true that the more sophisticated thinking of HMI on these matters appears to have been disregarded .
18 It is certainly true that the individual is more sensitive to particular types of influence at some developmental stages than at others , but to say that tells us little , either about the extent to which the period can be shifted or about the reasons for the increased sensitivity .
19 It is certainly true that the Cournot and Stackelberg equilibria in general involve smaller welfare losses , and lower levels of excess profit , than would be the case if the firms acted as a joint profit-maximizing monopoly or cartel but , none the less , contingent on market parameters , allocative inefficiency could still be quite large .
20 It is certainly true that the location of care is changing .
21 It is certainly true that the actions of the CIA and M16 were important .
22 It is certainly true that the large amount of rock dust given off from dry-drilling machines , " widow makers " , gave rise to an upsurge in the incidence of respiratory diseases — notably silicosis .
23 It is certainly true that the Spey engines have proved an outstanding success .
24 It is certainly true that the value of the firm is equal to the sum of its assets .
25 And it is certainly true that the surveying profession was outraged at the ‘ Flynn system , ’ as it was soon called .
26 It is certainly true that the most active social science departments gave rise to the approach to social science which became associated with participant observation , the more extensive use of the survey method as a means to examine attitudes and personality and , last but not least , the modern sociological use of the survey as a tool for the development of theory as in variable analysis .
27 From our knowledge of Nietzsche 's earlier thinking on that subject , we would naturally take such a title to imply a central concern with tragedy and its demise , but it is certainly significant that the word " tragedy " is not itself part of the title .
28 It would be paranoia , of course , to suggest that someone had arranged for him to drop into this particular hole , but it was certainly true that no one would be eager to fish him out .
29 Others saw the action in a more defensive light : as Brezhnev explained at the 26th Party Congress in 1981 , the situation in Afghanistan posed a ‘ direct threat to the security of [ the Soviet ] southern frontier ’ , and it was certainly true that an unstable , possibly militant Islamic government in a state immediately adjoining the USSR 's southern borders might have quite serious implications for public order in the traditionally Muslim republics of Central Asia .
30 It was certainly true that the brother in question had known all too well what he was about , and there was small doubt left as to who he must be , but he could not be accused without witness .
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