Example sentences of "[adv] certainly [vb mod] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ropes were then put on to keep it there but these alone certainly could not have restrained a 5-ton ( 5.08 tonnes ) elephant if it had taken it into its head to dismount during the journey . |
| 2 | The position a reader will take up certainly can not in any simple sense be read off from the text considered in abstract . |
| 3 | He can hardly talk , almost certainly ca n't see and although he was at the funeral probably does n't even realise that his son died in another road accident six months after his . |
| 4 | Of the fifteen States which had not ratified the amendment by 1979. he predicted that five ( Alabama , Louisiana , Mississippi , South Carolina and Utah ) almost certainly would not , five ( Arkansas , Georgia , Missouri , North Carolina and Oklahoma ) might , whereas Arizona , Florida , Illinois , Nevada and Virginia possibly would . |
| 5 | This behaviour should not be accepted , and if it was the Linfield fans almost certainly would not . |
| 6 | Lots of them do n't carry any radio at all and even those who do almost certainly would n't be permanently tuned to the distress frequency . ’ |
| 7 | New Zealander Chris O'Neill was the first Kiwi to sport the red and white of Japan when he played at the 1990 Hong Kong Sevens — but he almost certainly wo n't be the last . |
| 8 | When you can use video as another classroom aid , when and how it suits the language programme you are teaching , you almost certainly wo n't want to use it in the same way at the same time each week . |
| 9 | It 's ev , actually a little bit more complex than that , which is that the things that I used this year , I may not use next year , and I probably , almost certainly wo n't use two years ago . |
| 10 | The nature of the correlations between O isotope ratios and Sr , Nd and Pb isotope ratios is not consistent with assimilation , and the correlation between O and Nd isotope ratios almost certainly could not result from weathering . |
| 11 | If we do the same tests in 10 years ' time , we almost certainly will not get the same set of results . ’ |
| 12 | They almost certainly will not . |
| 13 | ‘ It may seem so to you , but you can take my word for it , if I were in the business of prowling around car parks looking for innocent Bentleys to wreck , I most certainly would n't use my own car as a battering-ram . |
| 14 | It most certainly would n't . |
| 15 | If you disappeared it most certainly would not . |
| 16 | There are a number of options , but I most certainly would not lead a breakaway church . ’ |
| 17 | Someone who most certainly will not be having trouble keeping up with his mortgage repayments is Lord Hanson , chairman of the industrial conglomerate Hanson . |
| 18 | I most certainly will not be scratching you . ’ |
| 19 | Money may be able to buy flying time , but it can not buy skill — and it most certainly can not guarantee success in an aerobatic championship . |
| 20 | It seems probable that a mixture of the two factors is involved , but we can not be sure that this is the case and we most certainly can not say which is more important than the other — let alone quantify ( in terms of percentages ) their relative importances . |