Example sentences of "[adj] [be] certainly true " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it is frequently said that the development of skilled movement ‘ lags ’ a long way behind that of skilled perception , and in one sense this is certainly true : young babies have excellent visual acuity as revealed by their behavioural discrimination of , and neural responsivity , to gratings and chequerboards — but we do n't see them playing darts ! |
| 2 | In general this is certainly true , as the experienced eye can tell at a glance whether the style of an ancient Greek coin is that of the archaic or of the later , classical period ; in a similar way one can argue from the change in the type of helmet worn by the goddess Athena on Athenian vases in the period 540–510 BC that Athenian coins depicting the same goddess with the same helmet are unlikely to have been made before that time . |
| 3 | This is certainly true , but this explanation might only account for some 4 or 5 per cent or NGU cases . |
| 4 | Compared with our ideal this is certainly true , and I shall await developments over the next decade with interest . |
| 5 | This is certainly true , as it will be seen , of the Westbury small mammal faunas , but it also applies to numerous other sites . |
| 6 | This is certainly true , but it underlines what many consider has been the undue emphasis placed on the PSBR in the government 's policy making . |
| 7 | This is certainly true of many of the largest oil companies , such as Exxon , Shell and BP . |
| 8 | This is certainly true when they deal with stories near home . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is certainly true of lesser men at the royal court . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is certainly true of the subject groups . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | While this is certainly true for some radicals , both 4-ASA and 5-ASA scavenge hypochlorite and inhibit myeloperoxidase at low concentrations . |
| 16 | This is certainly true . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | This is certainly true in the North-East . |
| 21 | This is certainly true of JS stores as Sheila Farmer knows . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This was certainly true of England last Wednesday , their back line in such stark disarray , so frequently outsmarted and embarrassingly wrongfooted by intelligently applied Polish speed and trickery that but for Shilton 's alertness and determined auxiliary support from midfield they would have been overwhelmed . |
| 24 | This was certainly true of his year as social security minister , where Major would prefer to be remembered for dispensing fivers to freezing pensioners in the form of severe-weather payments ( even though they received only one each for one week ) , than for helping to draft the 1988 Social Security Act . |
| 25 | This was certainly true . |
| 26 | This was certainly true of the majority of studies before and even till the 1970s , which usually adopted a social anthropological approach ( Arensberg and Kimball , 1940 ) to static or declining farm communities ( Davies , 1970 ) and even by 1 97 1 it was possible for Franklin ( 1 97 1,1 2 ) to argue that ‘ the peasantry , though diminishing in number and importance , still forms the largest single category within the rural community throughout Europe ’ . |
| 27 | THEY say the best things come in threes and this was certainly true of the suggestion schemes at Sellafield , Chapelcross and Capenhurst . |
| 28 | That much was certainly true . |
| 29 | The same was certainly true of me , although my role was clearly less significant . |
| 30 | That is certainly true of his book FROM THE MISSOURI WEST ( Aperture , 1980 ) . |