Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] certainly [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The evidence shows that while it is swinging slowly , it 's still a long way from the centre and it 's certainly not swinging the other way . ’
2 Well I was involved with these professionally , and they are a very high standard , and it 's certainly not going to solve our housing problem .
3 and it 's and it 's certainly hormonally linked
4 However , legal advice is not provided solely by lawyers and it is certainly not restricted to those operating within the professional structure described in Chapter 3 .
5 For a start Claridges Hotel , in London 's Mayfair , where the Russians would be staying , was fully bugged by MI5 on a permanent basis ( because so many ‘ interesting ’ foreign guests stayed there ) and it was certainly not going to miss the opportunity of eavesdropping on the two leaders .
6 Perhaps that type of patronage was of small value in comparison with the need to provide employment for friends , but it was all grist to the mill of a politician intent on keeping his interest solidly united , and it was certainly not scorned by those with bursaries in their gift .
7 However backward in some respects , its educational level was high , and it was certainly better adapted in 1880 to the demands and discipline of industrial life than the population of any other part of the world except North America .
8 Debt is common among the poor and unemployed but it is certainly not confined to them .
9 But it is certainly enough to make us want to persist with our exploration of this theory and to examine in some detail ( in Chapter 7 ) the various possible explanations for the effect .
10 Neither of these extreme dogma is applied rigorously today , but it is certainly still accepted that 2-D form makes good pattern .
11 Of course the text looks pretty rough around the edges at 72dpi and the technology costs an small fortune but it 's certainly enough to turn a few heads .
12 Nobody suggested discouraging emigration , but it was certainly not welcomed as eagerly as in earlier decades , and the flow may have declined a little .
13 I had done very little imaginative work and would not have regarded this as my greatest negotiating success , but it was certainly so regarded by Harold Wilson who assured me that my name would be kept out of the proceedings , since I had then , and retain , a keen dislike for gratuitous publicity .
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