Example sentences of "[det] [is] certainly [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is certainly untrue of Brighton , where the high prevalence of HIV-1 infection in homosexual men is similar to that in London . |
| 2 | This is certainly cynical about the ill-effects of power , but what it implies is ‘ power exposes ’ , not ‘ power corrupts ’ . |
| 3 | Although dragged out at over two hours , this is certainly watchable on a trash level , although it 's essentially an adequately-acted dumb-ass melodrama dressed up with enormous operatic tat . |
| 4 | This is certainly correct in commercial cases . |
| 5 | In cases where appointment out of court is possible this is certainly preferable from the viewpoint of the debentureholders as a body . |
| 6 | This is certainly possible with telescopes , and one amateur in Australia , the Rev. Robert Evans , has more than a dozen discoveries to his credit . |
| 7 | They have adapted quickly — two weeks into the course , comments such as ‘ This is certainly different from school ’ suggested a certain bewilderment . |
| 8 | Whether anyone in Berlin seriously expected the French government to believe this is certainly open to question in view of the preceding events . |
| 9 | This is certainly true of many of the largest oil companies , such as Exxon , Shell and BP . |
| 10 | This is certainly true of the two middle-class women who said they liked or did n't mind housework but were dissatisfied with it . |
| 11 | This is certainly true of the Hundred Years War , and it is as well to remember that at Crécy , Poitiers , and Agincourt , although the English emerged as victors , on each occasion they were not entering the French kingdom to attempt its conquest , but were actually leaving it , heading for the coast in search of transport to take them back to England , the main aim of the expedition already fulfilled . |
| 12 | This is certainly true of lesser men at the royal court . |
| 13 | We might therefore advance the hypothesis that the medieval evidence ( unlike the modern dialect evidence for [ h ] -fulness in Norfolk ) is from a relatively high social stratum — this is certainly true of the Paston Letters at the very least — and that [ h ] -loss was current at that level but not amongst the rural population . |
| 14 | This is certainly true of the subject groups . |
| 15 | Instead she or he could have used material from the question to begin the essay with a generalisation ( see above , Chapter 3 , p. 66 ) , like this : Titles often serve the purpose of focusing attention on a central symbol ; and this is certainly true of " The Captain 's Doll " . |
| 16 | It is generally assumed that both texts on British Library Additional MS 23986 are preserved there as fragments of longer originals , and this is certainly true of the Anglo-Norman ballad first written on the roll . |
| 17 | This is certainly true of Le papillon ( book 3 ) , in which concerto-style semiquavers depicting the butterfly permeate all three ariettes ( G minor-G major-G minor ) . |
| 18 | This is certainly true of JS stores as Sheila Farmer knows . |
| 19 | This is certainly true of Mrs Wood and Things Past & Present ; of Scott Anderson and the stamps ; of Arthur Crawford and the plants ; and of those who help at the winter work-parties in the cellars where the books are stored . |
| 20 | While this is certainly true for some radicals , both 4-ASA and 5-ASA scavenge hypochlorite and inhibit myeloperoxidase at low concentrations . |
| 21 | The central fact to acknowledge about any sort of storage is that there is rarely enough of it , and this is certainly true in the kitchen . |
| 22 | This is certainly true in the North-East . |
| 23 | This is certainly significant at the 1 per cent level , though we must bear in mind that these expectations are calculated on the basis of a purely random distribution of sites , which may not be quite true in practice . |
| 24 | That is certainly true of his book FROM THE MISSOURI WEST ( Aperture , 1980 ) . |
| 25 | That is certainly true in my case . |
| 26 | That is certainly true in the context of telecommunications and , more specifically , in premium rate services . |
| 27 | That 's certainly true of the title but that is the only feature of the magazine which remains . |
| 28 | Erm , the er , there seems to be kind of latency period when great , innovations in human thought are followed by considerable turbulence and upset , and the figure responsible becomes a kind of er , you know bogey person , that , that , that , that people get , get perhaps that 's certainly true of Darwin , though I think it 's abating now . |
| 29 | Well I mean that 's , that 's certainly true of Doreen 's is n't it ? |
| 30 | That 's certainly true in Oxford West and Abingdon , where the Lib Dems are hoping to woo the Labour voters they need to take the seat from the Tories . |