Example sentences of "[conj] certainly a " in BNC.

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1 A possible chance of an eagle , or certainly a birdie , went begging at the 13th , where he took three to get down from nowhere but from then on he became a different player .
2 Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on .
3 erm It was really one of the guidelines , it was the , if we considered doing that then I do n't think we would have had a four nation programme or certainly a five nation programme at the start , I do n't think we would 've er stayed together , it was really one of the basic requirements not to have that capability .
4 There was probably a nunnery here originally , and certainly a manor since the 1300s , for there are the remains of a fish-pond in the garden .
5 The same anonymous writer who heard Spurgeon in 1884 went across the river to the City Temple but again was not complimentary : ‘ If you can forgive a bad delivery with occasional dropping of aspirates , and the incessant introduction of Gladstonian politics in connection with holy things , you will find in Dr Parker 's sermons much that is impressive and certainly a great deal that is novel . ’
6 A new generation was taking root , and certainly a more fortunate lot than their British counterparts whom Jim and Tina had left behind .
7 His concept in In Search of Paradise bids to be over-ambitious though beautiful and certainly a welcome oasis in an otherwise arid week .
8 It is great to be around friends who have never had a weight problem and find that I have a lot more energy than them and certainly a lot more breath !
9 A better jury — and certainly a less star-struck one — would have seen it .
10 ANTONIA men who are slightly less conventional , more erratic , more uncontrolled and certainly a different look .
11 The movies , though , had been born into a far more complex and certainly a more highly politicized era than the earlier fictional forms and many familiar themes , especially those dealing with the problems of wealth or with sudden reversals of financial fortune , would have to be treated more sensitively .
12 Sceptics might feel that they betrayed a lack of informed thought on the issue of objectives ; and certainly a good deal of the time of the economic planners , the Treasury , the Ministry and the industry over the following decades was to be devoted to the search for more meaningful objectives and standards of performance to supplement these minimal statutory requirements .
13 A visit to a stately home and certainly a game of Monopoly could not be pure fun , divorced from politics .
14 We realized this would be an appallingly large slice out of our budget , and certainly a piggish way to treat a boar .
15 A disused pipe organ case is sometimes employed as a screen and certainly a more accurate impression of a pipe organ is gained if the speakers are positioned in one place , rather than dispersed around the building .
16 Tony Lewis , the Glamorgan chairman and certainly a person of some sensitivity himself , has gone into print : to soften the arguments and smooth the flow of the ageless Taff .
17 He thought briefly about Surere again , and wondered with something akin to panic whether he would reappear ; then , angered with himself at this disloyalty to a former colleague and certainly a fellow-sufferer under the new regime , he dismissed the matter and concentrated instead on what he would say to Taheb .
18 Perhaps a little less improbable , and certainly a possibility , is that a change in the savings products offered by other intermediaries could cause an increase in the early termination , or ‘ surrender ’ , of policies as savers switched to the other products .
19 While building such a database , using the kinds of structural concepts described above , is technical challenging and certainly a costly business , the greatest difficulties come when such a database is delivered online .
20 It was also a slightly larger organisation than that in London , and certainly a more costly one .
21 Being a forward-thinking ‘ man of science ’ it seems highly probable that our present-day Darwin would be computer-literate and certainly a user of word processors .
22 The banks have tended to choose a lower liquidity ratio over the years , and certainly a lower cash ratio .
23 Although the planning of the cottage rested on the patriarchal assumption that it would house a male art lover , with perhaps a wife and certainly a ( female ) domestic to service it , Unwin displayed some unease about the status of such service , and thought that : " It is possible , though not easy , to introduce one helper into home life on equal terms , but very difficult indeed to do this with two " ( 1901 p66 ) .
24 Erm thank you Mr Chairman , high up in the Cardiganshire coast near , on the trunk road between and where the population is the sparsest in Wales and certainly a .
25 Went through to Russell and certainly a good overlap from Lawrence his score is eight runs , so a hundred and twenty seven for four and now describing play for the next twenty minutes we 've got John Adnew .
26 Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later .
27 Although one may from time to time admire people who hazard their entire company on one major throw , it has to be a risk that for most of us would be , hopefully , both an unnecessary one and certainly an undesirable one .
28 But most rabbits avoid swimming and certainly an exhausted rabbit could not swim the Enborne .
29 Not , in truth , a pub rock venue , but certainly a pub rock act .
30 Next time I saw Joe he looked maybe not 10 years younger but certainly a totally different man and ready to rock .
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