Example sentences of "[Wh det] be certain [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's certain is that it will cost some promoter a lot of money . |
| 2 | What 's certain is that he does n't understand her . |
| 3 | But what 's certain is that if you 're in that type of job you will be amongst the lowest paid workers in Scotland . |
| 4 | Pound may be right or wrong about the merits of Binyon 's version , as about the sorts of language that are acceptable in verse translation ; what is certain is that he 's here applying to diction a sort of sliding scale or set of variable standards such as Ford 's principles did n't allow for . |
| 5 | What is certain is that the pre-1989 Austin/MG range , all Skodas , Yugos and quite a few Lancias do not , which does not help already depressed resale prices . |
| 6 | What is certain is that Oakland start their second consecutive World Series as firm favourites , their combination of power ( Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire ) , pitching ( Dave Stewart and Mike Moore ) , defence ( Mike Gallego and Carney Lansford ) and speed commonly seen as too strong for a San Francisco side carrying several half-fit pitchers and vulnerable defensively to Henderson 's base stealing . |
| 7 | Anyway , the debate ought to be fun since what is certain is that American audiences , or at least distributors , have at least as much contempt as those here for independent features without bankable stars , car chases and expensive special effects . |
| 8 | There is a local story that Queen Elizabeth spent a night here ; what is certain is that she passed on this road on her way from Burderop to Cirencester . |
| 9 | What is certain is that on the bright and sunny morning of 4 June 1913 the forty-year-old Emily Davison called at the offices of the WSPU in London and asked for two of the union 's white , green and purple flags . |
| 10 | What is certain is that the creative use of recorders was a general expectation : the saintly and amiable Ahmad Bu Aziza , asked to record an account of Zuwaya trading , refused to do so on the spot , but made an appointment for two days later ‘ to give me time to make the poem ’ . |
| 11 | What is certain is that , did it exist and were it to be opened by some ‘ cleansing regime ’ , the happy openness of British life would go for good . |
| 12 | What is certain is that the West Indies enter today 's match under considerable pressure after their disappointing World Cup campaign , while the South Africans have little to lose . |
| 13 | The answer is still not clear , but what is certain is that the five-rayed plan was established even in the Cambrian in a number of diverse echinoderms ; it is evidently highly functional . |
| 14 | What is certain is that the corn milling firm of Reynolds and Allen were using at least part of it during the 1860s . |
| 15 | What is certain is that the results of the Italian war of 1859 , though wildly popular in France , were far from being what the Emperor desired . |
| 16 | What is certain is that the boat capsized and all on board were drowned . |
| 17 | What is certain is that he carried the legend of a king or emperor waiting to be reborn for several centuries , just as the British King Arthur has done . |
| 18 | However many difficulties you have faced , what is certain is that you will have kept on learning , both about the realities of the business world and about yourself . |
| 19 | What is certain is that expert systems increased the competitiveness of those companies who implemented them . |
| 20 | Much remains to be learned of their activities , but what is certain is that they had converts in high places — notably Edward Wood ( of whom more anon ) , Leo Amery , and Lord Hailey of African Survey fame and immense Colonial Office influence — and that through their publication of a journal widely respected for its seriousness they kept before the eyes of the political establishment the idea of a new kind of empire . |
| 21 | Whether he attended the Academy or not , what is certain is that he wanted to live with a practising painter as a working apprentice . |
| 22 | What is certain is that we need to recapture the vision of the primitive church , for if only we could drag ourselves away from our television sets and unhook our headphones from our portable stereos we would hear the clear call to arms . |
| 23 | What is certain is that inadequate diet can lead directly to ill-health . |
| 24 | What is certain is that she will stamp her own identity on whatever activities she heads up within the White House . |
| 25 | But he admitted : ‘ I believe that unemployment will go on rising for some time yet , but what is certain is that the measures I have taken will assist the employment situation . ’ |
| 26 | What is certain is that the Taube in its various forms was a much-loved and respected aeroplane , safe and relatively easy to fly . |
| 27 | What is certain is that actual copulation only takes a matter of ten or fifteen seconds , though it may be repeated twenty or more times within twenty-four hours and one hundred times within three or four days . |
| 28 | What is certain is that for countless ages the greatest mountain range on earth will continue to form an impenetrable barrier to the terrestrial animals that live north and south of it . |
| 29 | What is certain is that there will be many surprises in 1992 , the game will have an ever-increasing worldwide audience , and there will be many more magnificent moments in 1992 that every tennis fan will treasure — and we , at Tennis World , will try to capture them all . |
| 30 | What is certain is that the two parts of the community continued to the time of Lanfranc 's death and beyond to face each other with unconcealed hostility . |