Example sentences of "[is] certainly " in BNC.

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1 The notion that parents can exert a particularly profound influence during the first few years — an influence that will remain throughout life and can not be eradicated by subsequent experience-is certainly widespread .
2 It 's certainly true that the pressure on you builds up as the terms go on — but training is not designed to destroy you , but to challenge you .
3 Ian Botham ca n't have been expecting to have such a free winter , but he 's certainly filling it innovatively with a national tour of his show , An Evening With Ian Botham .
4 Emboldened by earnings per share jumping from 0.13p to 1.12p , Algy Cluff , the company 's chairman said : ‘ It 's certainly our intention to pay a dividend ’ .
5 He 's certainly looking sharp enough to do that . ’
6 He 's certainly not kiddin' my blokes . ’
7 Not very clearly , but he 's certainly alive . ’
8 Well , that 's certainly true , but Bridgemere is absorbing the extra cost itself so you 'll be paying the same for the nursery 's coir-grown plants as you would for peat-raised plants .
9 It 's certainly much more international than we expected , ’ said Bromley .
10 I think he 's a charming man and he 's certainly better than Major or Kinnock , who both give me the creeps .
11 ‘ It 's certainly wiser to be more covered up in the sun , ’ she says .
12 ‘ He 's certainly capable of a first . ’
13 ‘ It 's certainly easier to go down than come up . ’
14 ‘ It 's certainly meant as one .
15 ‘ I think he 's ruining your life , he 's taking you away from your work , from your thinking , toward something empty and false — he 's certainly wasting your time , they both are , they 're exploiting you . ’
16 ‘ She 's certainly unhappy — she 's an unhappy lonely child — she 's not wicked . ’
17 He may not be the biggest pop star in the world but he 's certainly the most unapproachable .
18 Whatever the reason , it 's certainly all my female friends that stand gazing into the black puddles with me .
19 It 's certainly a narrow aréte , but I found the tiny loose stones of Am Bodach 's unstable path far more disquieting than this ridge , with its well-worn , solid path snaking comfortingly across to the last top between us and our goal of Sgurr a' Mhaim .
20 COLBERT : He 's certainly a lot more marketable than Damien Hardman .
21 And for the Earth as a whole , it 's certainly not good news .
22 ‘ That 's certainly needed , ’ said Karelius , ‘ but I 'd have thought infantry better suited to the job .
23 I 'm not sure they succeed in this more ambitious intention , but it 's certainly a commendable effort by the authors .
24 ‘ It 's a lovely piece , not on the same level as Mozart 's , of course , but it 's certainly instructive to hear even a lesser composer 's point of view !
25 He 's certainly not slow to probe beneath the outwardly cosy surface of Edwardian London in the Second Symphony .
26 With ‘ Allegro ’ discs retailing at mid-price , there is always the problem that programme notes will be curtailed : that 's certainly note the case here , although the ship is in danger of being spoilt for ‘ ha'penth of tar ’ thanks to some careless proofreading .
27 ‘ But it 's certainly the most extraordinary … ’
28 If anybody tries to take enough alcoholic drink to make a real contribution to his vitamin or mineral intake , he 's certainly drinking too much !
29 Although not too difficult , it 's certainly trickier than D — AAW 1 .
30 It 's certainly nice to see someone who 's not into adventures but does n't expect us to trash the column .
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