Example sentences of "and certainly [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To date no one has produced a more succinct or more plausible definition of Conservatism , and certainly neither Honderich nor Eccleshall has provided an adequate alternative .
2 The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try .
3 Brown , tan and olive are the original , classic corduroy colours , and when I say classic I mean specifically trousers , not jackets and certainly not suits .
4 She was determined to allow nobody to treat her as a child in future — not Sam , not Adam , not Elinor , not Buzz , and certainly not Miranda .
5 Evolutionary theory may seem to belong more properly in a different book ; but no subject in modern biology , and certainly not ecology , can be considered properly without keeping evolutionary principles in mind .
6 Anywhere — Outremer , France , Scythia , Persia — but not England , and certainly not London !
7 These have , at times , made strange bedfellows with the minority who oppose reform because no reform , and certainly not abolition , is acceptable .
8 It was a filthy trick , totally unsporting and certainly not cricket .
9 Even if there never will be any easy answers to such questions , and certainly not ones which could be read off from some kind of ‘ correct analysis ’ , it is still the case that the better informed we are about the complexities which underlie them the quicker we will be able to learn from our mistakes .
10 Most of those who died were not guerrillas , and certainly not Marxists , but illiterate , Catholic peasant farm-workers from Guatemala 's high plateaux .
11 Roxburgh made it clear that he was not making any implied criticism of an individual club or manager and certainly not Rangers ' Walter Smith for taking out every Ibrox player originally at Scotland 's disposal .
12 Shade is best provided by overhead deciduous trees , but not the dense , almost black shade cast by low beech branches and certainly not shade from conifers .
13 And certainly not Rod , who likes to brag about his off-the-job exploits at the meat factory where he works .
14 But this car has the hand of the marketing department all over it , not the engineers and certainly not SVE .
15 But no one , and certainly not Mr. Richards , in argument before us suggests that there can not be others .
16 Not the papers or the magazines and certainly not Kylie .
17 No one came here uninvited , and certainly not Julius !
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