Example sentences of "certainly [not/n't] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plane would certainly not be shot down , and as he had not alerted the Observer Corps , there was a good chance that it would get close to its destination — Dungavel , his family home — before being spotted . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't really agree with it , ’ said Armstrong whose wallet would certainly not be getting as heavy as other coaches brought in to knock teams into shape . |
| 3 | LIVERPOOL against Manchester United , one of the brightest jewels in ITV 's Barclays League programming , will almost certainly not be seen on television this season . |
| 4 | Mrs Boatman will certainly not be expecting her potential charges at Northumberland to be chasing all over the country in search of titles . |
| 5 | The ladies ' sighs of relief , as the sound of their partners ' cars disappeared with distance , indicated that the gentlemen would certainly not be missed , as long as the flood of money engendered by the discovery of oil in Alberta continued to flow so gratifyingly into their joint bank accounts during the boom years of the 1950s . |
| 6 | Even through her own embarrassment she was cynically aware with one part of her mind that Bert Harris 's interests would certainly not be served by going against a man as powerful as Luke . |
| 7 | Chartered accountant worth their salt would certainly not be working for any health service or trust hospital . |
| 8 | The present lack of a definitely accepted account of the origin of life should certainly not be taken as a stumbling block for the whole Darwinian world view , as it occasionally — probably with wishful thinking — is . |
| 9 | After the violent conditions that erm we think occurred in the early life of the earth and injected energy and churned up the atmosphere and formed the prebiotic molecules , we find that just those same molecules are actually in the clouds in space , and these clouds are the basic raw material from which stars and plants form in the first place , so we might ask the question could they have got into the earth 's atmosphere without this intermediate process , and I think there are mechanisms whereby these molecules can accrete into the earth 's atmosphere , and it certainly suggests that we should look at thse and certainly not be taken as a foregone conclusion that the Uray/Miller experiments are the only mechanism whereby the prebiotic soup was formed . |
| 10 | Their life could certainly not be described as full . |
| 11 | The 200 objects , however , should certainly not be underestimated . |
| 12 | While the mentally ill remain very much part of the prison scene , the central government has recently taken action ( Juvenile Justice Act 1986 ) to exclude another group who should certainly not be incarcerated . |
| 13 | Where that national pattern is distinctly modernist and the data under consideration are putatively postmodernist , this analytical strategy should certainly not be preferred . |
| 14 | The cardiotocography machine must certainly not be used as a poor substitute for midwifery care , nor should a shortage of midwives be used as an argument for a policy of continuous cardiotocography . |
| 15 | If the right hon. Gentleman would only himself address the causes of crime , he would realise that they would certainly not be solved by the suggestion made at the Labour party press conference this morning — that we should empty our prisons to pay for more police . |
| 16 | perhaps this is one reason why , despite the Eurocentrism of his intended historical schema , Sartre himself could certainly not be accused of ethnocentrism in his politics ; already the first Critique contains substantial analyses of the political and psychological structures of colonialism and racism , even if they have to be , as always , ‘ dissolved in History ’ ( I , 716 ) . |
| 17 | The Government generally take the view that matters of pay and hours are better left to negotiation between employers and employees , or by their representatives , and that they should certainly not be dealt with in legislation or in codes of practice provided for in statute . |
| 18 | There is no need to twist the gripper or alter the direction the torch points in , and the gripper should most certainly not be opened . |
| 19 | A child who was not allowed to wander off to the park , would certainly not be allowed to fly off to the planets . |
| 20 | Thus it is argued that , in order to provide protection for the UK car industry , the VER negotiated with the Japanese to limit car imports into the UK should be tightened and the Japanese should certainly not be allowed to establish production facilities in Britain , whereby the VER might be avoided . |
| 21 | But the idea — current indeed in Anglican circles until the last century — that Jesus ‘ ordained ’ twelve men ( who became the first ‘ bishops ’ ) , who subsequently laid their hands on the heads of others , and so forth down to the present day , can certainly not be allowed to stand . |
| 22 | If the Prime Minister really believed in the principle of subsidiarity , as he said yesterday , that would certainly not be allowed to happen . |
| 23 | As for making up and imposition , the tasks most often cited as barred to women , they could certainly not be carried out by anyone who had not received a proper training , and were rightly regarded as skilled work . |