Example sentences of "it is [adv] certain that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is pretty certain that the watercourses which ran down down to the lake were pretty foul in those days , although , it is quite possible that excrement was utilised to a fair extent as a garden fertiliser . |
| 2 | It is also certain that the number thirty-three in one of the quotations is a textual corruption : the Galatica may have had fewer books . |
| 3 | It is also certain that the Home Secretary knew of the special branch involvement by the time he made his statement on Judge Tumim 's inquiry . |
| 4 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 5 | As the manor of Whitwell was valued by a feodary survey at £3. 13s. 9d. , it is virtually certain that the £80 assessment of Richard Flower , the resident owner , must be interpreted as meaning his whole income scaled down by 20 per cent . |
| 6 | It is morally certain that a number of persons signed confessions to crimes of which they were innocent . |
| 7 | It is quite certain that the poets Shakespeare , Keats , Byron and Wordsworth never saw a Hybrid Tea rose . |
| 8 | Were a similar case to arise today , it is almost certain that a strenuous argument would be mounted on the basis of Commonwealth precedents concerning the limited powers of central legislatures established by a ‘ superior ’ Act of the imperial Parliament which withheld certain matters from their purview . |
| 9 | Since the Tamil insurrection it is almost certain that a number have been shot for food by the ‘ Tigers ’ . |
| 10 | Nobody knows exactly who built South Luffenham , but it is almost certain that an architect called John Sturges supplied the drawings . |
| 11 | It is almost certain that an offer of mediation from you would give rise to an irresistible movement in favour of negotiations … . |
| 12 | It is not surprising , since it is almost certain that the European Commission will shortly propose that labelling of ingredients for alcoholic drinks should become law throughout the community . |
| 13 | They dived down from out of the sun to the south and in view of the short space of time that had elapsed since the aircraft had landed it is almost certain that the enemy aircraft must have seen the Sunderland in the air . |
| 14 | It is almost certain that the tips will not be exactly in line with each other . |
| 15 | Notwithstanding the intention to apply the profit from the venture for ‘ charitable purposes , ’ it is almost certain that the Revenue would seek to charge that profit to tax . |
| 16 | For an official to be able to act in this way is probably unique in the world , and it is almost certain that the high motives of the draftees of this regulation have never been fully recognised . |
| 17 | It is almost certain that the presence of a product champion can be an advantage in such circumstances . |
| 18 | It is almost certain that the choice would have fallen on Francis Maginn , who deserved this distinction . |
| 19 | However the village received its name it is almost certain that the present name was being used by the 8th century as we find the Charter for Halling dated A.D. 765–785 when Ecgberht II of Kent granted to St. Andrews of Rochester , ten Sulings at Halling with rights . |
| 20 | Also it is almost certain that the RAM can not be re-used — see previous comment . |
| 21 | It is almost certain that the distribution of information varied significantly between the road types and differences in report may simply have reflected these objective changes . |
| 22 | However it is almost certain that the offer will be rejected . |
| 23 | It is then certain that the undertype was minted earlier than the overtype . |
| 24 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |