Example sentences of "certainly [vb infin] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now another general point which I dare n't put on the slide is that during this , the next sort of hour or so , or two hours , erm , some of you will almost certainly become insulted with the way that I talk to you . |
| 2 | Achieving this independence will often have taken many years and will certainly have involved a great deal of effort . |
| 3 | Secondly , it enables us to take account of the knowledge that , as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said , had Saddam Hussein not allowed his greed to overcome his stealth by invading Kuwait last year , he would almost certainly have developed a nuclear weapon by the end of 1993 . |
| 4 | By the time you get back most of the staff will have retired ; Mrs James will certainly have gone home , but Gerard will still be up until after the last guest has gone . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the two promised divisions , which , had they been available at the right moment , would almost certainly have presented Verdun to the Germans , were still firmly held at Metz , two day 's march away . |
| 6 | Hebrew letters might , therefore , have undergone differentiation for the former group and would certainly have become involved in some associations . |
| 7 | Had he paused before taking up his pen , and listened to the ghost of Jeeves , he would certainly have heard a deprecatory cough and the chilling words : ‘ I would scarcely advocate it , sir . ’ |
| 8 | And we should most certainly have heard the Gruagach if they had been following us . |
| 9 | ‘ But the quality of life would certainly have suffered , ’ said Milton . |
| 10 | In later and easier days he would certainly have studied mathematics at university , but instead left school when he was seventeen . |
| 11 | ( As for my other questions : a pot of the jam could indeed have survived until now , but would almost certainly have turned brown , unless kept completely sealed in a dry , airy , pitch-dark room . ) |
| 12 | A goal at that stage , midway through the second half would certainly have ended all the arguments , but Dowie 's opener was enough to be going on with . |
| 13 | Similarly , bees learn landmarks after taking off : a recruit who arrived and fed at the feeder , but was transported back to the hive while feeding , returned without the slightest memory of the landmarks she must certainly have seen on her arrival . |
| 14 | Most travel journalists will not have been to the Giants ' Grotto , of course , but they will certainly have seen the handy paragraph in the travel company press pack . |
| 15 | Anyone with good eyesight would certainly have seen the riders , but to someone like Dame Elizabeth their presence might only be betrayed by a flash of colour . |
| 16 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 17 | Such women would almost certainly have evaded recording in any listing of " occupations " . |
| 18 | Experienced police officers told us that if a jury had seen the video they would certainly have convicted Lucy . |
| 19 | Companies should now be experiencing shorter delivery times with the absence of physical checks at the frontier but compliance costs will almost certainly have risen , in the short term at least , due to the introduction of new reporting requirements devised for collation of EC trade statistics and to combat fraud . |
| 20 | As suggested in his recent editorial by Ken Ellis of FlyPast , the huge amount of public support which has surface this year for the Vulcan and which had Parliament not been in recess would almost certainly have led to ‘ questions in the House ’ , may lead to a revision of the Official View in matters of aviation preservation . |
| 21 | A further point which suggests that these provisions , if not actually written in his reign , were in any event written not long after his death is the fact that the medrese attached to the mosque of Bayezid II in Edirne , completed in 893/1488 and of higher rank than the Sahn , would almost certainly have received some mention in any such provisions written subsequent to that date . |
| 22 | But she told the boy his offences were so serious that had he been 15 , not 14 , he 'd almost certainly have received a custodial sentence . |
| 23 | ‘ And Mrs Iverson would certainly have noticed if that had been disturbed . ’ |
| 24 | They would certainly have noticed it , but there are other qualities useful to a sovereign . |
| 25 | The will also certainly have noticed the virtual exclusion of non-American business . |
| 26 | ‘ We would most certainly have noticed . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , on special occasions the Spanish authorities in America would certainly have erected large representations of the king in this manner , as objects of semi-religious devotion . |
| 28 | " She would almost certainly have lost it anyway . " |
| 29 | Assuming that all the ILP members acquiesced in the amalgamation , the new Party with less than 12,000 members would certainly have lost two of its three MPs . |
| 30 | Foreign currency and the goods it buys are very important to the USSR and events since the second oil shock will certainly have increased the Soviet economic planners ' enthusiasm for gas . |