Example sentences of "certainly not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of UK groups reached 300 in the early 1980s and has remained around that level ever since — groups of very high quality and certainly not based on ‘ ephemeral enthusiasms ’ ! |
| 2 | You either have it or you do not — talent is certainly not something which can be taught . |
| 3 | The accompanying letter needs to be personal and brief and should certainly not be sycophantic or name dropping . |
| 4 | Certainly not . |
| 5 | It is quite clear that Rome did not have a policy on catholic schooling at this time , and certainly not one requiring attendance at such schools as a religious duty . |
| 6 | ‘ Certainly not , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Certainly not with anything mechanical . |
| 8 | This response of putting the hands out and throwing the head back is certainly not a reaction learned during flying training . |
| 9 | the report is certainly not a definitive and unchallengeable portrait of the Metropolitan police . |
| 10 | Who gives a damn , certainly not me , caressing your lovely legs with my eyes . |
| 11 | His early involvement in this so-called jazz-poetry — which achieved such popularity in the sixties — shows that Leonard , not for the first time , and certainly not the last , was ‘ where it was all happening ’ before it actually happened . |
| 12 | It was certainly not one of the many studied effects which Paul had variously condemned as ‘ ludicrous ’ , ‘ over the top ’ , ‘ outrageous ’ , ‘ dingy ’ , or — most damaging of all — ‘ silly ’ . |
| 13 | This is a necessary condition for a reductionist view of the mind but , particularly given the absence of any effective demonstration of a causal connection between the mental and the neural , it is certainly not a sufficient condition . |
| 14 | A fine of £4,000 is certainly not going to act as any kind of deterrent to her future behaviour . |
| 15 | But nothing , and certainly not articulating his words ‘ cheerfully and artlessly ’ , can muffle Tikhon 's diagnosis which is that Stavrogin suffers from ‘ indifference ’ . |
| 16 | Advent of low cost processors allowing DSP algorithms to be implemented with relative ease means electronics engineers now have much greater awareness of its potential — certainly not the case five years ago . |
| 17 | Tallis 's case is convincing , though he has certainly not said the last word on the matter , and there may well be further arguments from those who are professionally engaged in linguistics . |
| 18 | These admirable sentiments are certainly not those of a nihilist . |
| 19 | I would certainly not favour a rump version of one of the current forms of English degree , with their recurring arguments about canons and coverage , the definition of literature , and the place of theory . |
| 20 | It is in this profoundly grateful and reverent sene , certainly not with any heartless flippancy , that forty years later in the prison stockade Pound greets the sunset as a designer — ‘ grand couturier ’ . |
| 21 | This is certainly not the language that one uses of a resident sage or recognized ‘ master ’ ; and it seems that in Paris at that time there was in fact no one who esteemed Pound in either of those ways . |
| 22 | Hatred of Jews is something that the Fascist is especially prone to , but it is n't a necessary consequence of his Fascism , and in any case it 's only a symptom , certainly not the root cause of his disease . |
| 23 | As we thundered down the runway , the ambassador asked : ‘ Do you think they weighed the khat properly ? ’ 'Almost certainly not , ’ replied the civil servant . |
| 24 | But Mr Lafontaine , standard-bearer of the up-and-coming generation , and the second most important figure after Mr Vogel on the committee drafting the party programme for the next decade , has certainly not had things all his own way . |
| 25 | ‘ I will certainly not be an intellectual ‘ hands-off ’ guru merely thinking up schemes , ’ he said . |
| 26 | LIVERPOOL against Manchester United , one of the brightest jewels in ITV 's Barclays League programming , will almost certainly not be seen on television this season . |
| 27 | What we were offered , if definition is needed , might be called ballet-pantomime : it was certainly not opera . |
| 28 | This is almost certainly not the case and does Canberra a grave disservice , though it does illustrate one of the problems behind the fixture . |
| 29 | If anything , the papers are growing yet more adventurous , and they are certainly not expensive , at between three and five kopecks ( pence ) a copy . |
| 30 | ‘ Certainly not , ’ Lord Aldington replies . |