Example sentences of "but they [be] certainly not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern English may be pensive about their comeback but they 're certainly not paranoid or precious about a few meagre errors , and this is when the fun really starts . |
| 2 | We want the spirit of the Act , that the parents should be in position to cope , to come through , but they 're certainly not gon na be . |
| 3 | I I obviously Cornwall is a special case which we obviously as our Celtic cousins it is the only non-Anglo Saxon county in England and as a result we feel a very , very strong erm er almost a kind of Uncle erm Nephew relationship to Cornwall , whereas the Cornish are certainly not Welsh but they 're certainly not Anglo Saxon English either . |
| 4 | THE clothes may arrive in black plastic bin-bags , but they 're certainly not rubbish . |
| 5 | There 's been a recent H M Is report , which has asked some questions about mixed ability teaching and expressed some worries about those teachers who perhaps do n't have the adequate support and preparation for mixed ability teaching , but they 're certainly not against it , or the H M Is are certainly not against mixed ability teaching . |
| 6 | And I think both of them need to be erm thought about and looked at , but they 're certainly not the same thing . |
| 7 | They are by no means all bad , but they are certainly not all good . |
| 8 | People have looked with interest but in vain at the cores of quasars , but they are certainly not white holes . |
| 9 | ‘ John Smith was getting a bit nostalgic and remembering those days , but they are certainly not going to come back . ’ |
| 10 | There has been a recent H M I report which has asked some questions about mixed ability teaching and expressed some worries about those teachers who perhaps do n't have the adequate support and preparation for mixed ability teaching , but they are certainly not against it , or the H M I is certainly not against mixed ability teaching . |
| 11 | Their reaction was loud and mixed , but they were certainly not uninterested . |
| 12 | Here I was wearing a shirt and an old pair of grey flannel trousers ; they were clean , for I had washed them , but they were certainly not suitable for calling on an ambassador . |
| 13 | These may have been farmsteads or hamlets , but they were certainly not large or extensive enough to be villages , whatever their status or internal arrangements . |