Example sentences of "it is certainly the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certainly the case that a student with , say , a moderately good pass in A-level French may have little capacity for the responsive reading of French poetry . |
| 2 | He went on to say that the Met failed in this respect , and it is certainly the case that in the late Sixties some policemen would have taken the evidence with them , later , with a conjuror 's flourish , producing sackfuls of cannabis from behind the furniture with cries of ‘ Hullo John ! |
| 3 | It is certainly the first time since Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979 that Labour has ended its conference with the Conservatives on the defensive . |
| 4 | Today , America 's Thanksgiving Day , it is certainly the place to be for the world 's best technical and all-round skiers . |
| 5 | Today , Thanksgiving Day , it is certainly the place to be . |
| 6 | While it is certainly the case that Paisley was prepared to use militant rhetoric in denouncing O'Neillism , it is also the case that he was a vocal critic of private initiative in vigilantism and of attacks on Catholics . |
| 7 | It is certainly the case that , a deviant fringe aside , the core of Catholicism maintains the claim to be the only true church , insists that church unity must mean unity with Rome on its terms , and , in such practices as insisting that the children of mixed marriages be raised as Catholics , continues to behave in an ‘ intolerant ’ fashion . |
| 8 | It is certainly the time when the bereaved person begins to think about forming new attachments in various ways . |
| 9 | It is certainly the quietest and most refined of the ‘ generalist ’ group . |
| 10 | It is certainly the case that the idea that existence is not a predicate , a quality of things such as blueness or hardness , was clearly recognised in classical philosophy long before it was taken up by Kant in the eighteenth century and further refined by Bertrand Russell in the twentieth . |
| 11 | This body of work represents an important stage in the development of documentary photography , and it is certainly the achievement that Thomson is most remembered for . |
| 12 | It is certainly the case that the arguments they employed were partly designed in order to make their work appear more lisible , in response to the frequently voiced objections about the difficulty of their novels . |
| 13 | Lady Luck seems to turn against him when the chips are down — and it is certainly the chips that have gone against him . |
| 14 | This is perhaps the most urgent demand on schools and institutions of further education ; it is certainly the most natural and obvious cause for complaint against our education system . |
| 15 | It is certainly the case that crime rates in socialist countries are far less than in the USA and other capitalist societies . |
| 16 | It is certainly the case that normal mode inference is computationally more tractable . |
| 17 | It is certainly the case that urban areas such as inner Liverpool would benefit from private sector involvement and a stronger economic base but as Barnekov , Boyle and Rich ( 1989 ) point out this is little more than a truism . |
| 18 | In any event , it is certainly the oldest bridge over the Derwent . |
| 19 | It is certainly the case that Stirling Council has what is probably one of the most progressive same-sex-sharing tenancy policies in the country . |
| 20 | It is certainly the sort of thing that Garel-Jones says in private because he often describes himself and his family in similar terms . |
| 21 | It is certainly the ideal companion when you set out to explore parts of the British Railway system other enthusiasts miss . |
| 22 | However , it is certainly the perception of people working in the field that the level of sign language skill exhibited by hearing people , even those who function as interpreters for deaf people , is much lower than it should be . |
| 23 | Some people hate their relations and spend all their time gardening , and it is certainly the bone of much contention that racial and colour affinities , together with religious ones such as Judaism or Islam , cut across and militate against national allegiances . |
| 24 | It is certainly the case that sentencing practice to the present day has manifested an uneasy and uneven relationship between the two . |
| 25 | By contrast , it is certainly the case that , with certain notable exceptions , there are few Marxist poststructuralists . |
| 26 | It is certainly the only time I have played at a ground with a hovercraft as a pavilion . |
| 27 | It is 26 light-years away and 52 times as luminous as the Sun ; it is certainly the bluest of the brilliant stars . |
| 28 | It may or may not have been his home for any length of time , but it is certainly the only survivor of that contemporary period of timbered houses with thatched roofs which frequently caught fire and were eventually forbidden . |
| 29 | But it is certainly the object of quantum mechanical discourse and , for all the peculiarity of its collapse , its subtle essence may be the form that reality has to take on the atomic scale and below . |
| 30 | It is certainly the case , however , that most definitions of deindustrialization do equate it with manufacturing decline . |