Example sentences of "and certainly " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of UK groups reached 300 in the early 1980s and has remained around that level ever since — groups of very high quality and certainly not based on ‘ ephemeral enthusiasms ’ ! |
| 2 | Such things are celebrated in his stories with a richness and unction which might appear to make a renegade of Babel and certainly of Levi . |
| 3 | It is quite clear that Rome did not have a policy on catholic schooling at this time , and certainly not one requiring attendance at such schools as a religious duty . |
| 4 | As soon as you think you may be pregnant , and certainly by the time you 've missed two periods , go to your doctor for confirmation . |
| 5 | And certainly that other main arm of executive control — the army — seems little better at this than the police , for the number of participant accounts of their deep structures remains negligible , supporting McCabe 's ( 1980 ) contention that we should be asking of all of these costly institutions , ‘ who is to be controlled by whom and for what reasons ? ’ |
| 6 | His early involvement in this so-called jazz-poetry — which achieved such popularity in the sixties — shows that Leonard , not for the first time , and certainly not the last , was ‘ where it was all happening ’ before it actually happened . |
| 7 | Throughout the philosophy of mind and certainly amongst both lay and professional psychologists there is the view that basically two kinds of fact exist : physical facts about the brain and the external world , on the one hand , and facts ‘ about how it is with us ’ , on the other . |
| 8 | Driving standards on the whole improved during the eighties and certainly average speeds increased , in some cases dramatically . |
| 9 | The participants in folk dance can and certainly do show elation . |
| 10 | But nothing , and certainly not articulating his words ‘ cheerfully and artlessly ’ , can muffle Tikhon 's diagnosis which is that Stavrogin suffers from ‘ indifference ’ . |
| 11 | The idea of literary sensibility would probably be dismissed by the culturalists of the Left as a piece of mystification , and certainly few of them have shown signs of possessing it , on either side of the Atlantic . |
| 12 | Sir : Professor Gomme ( letter , 3 October ) argues the case for the exact recreation of the interior of Uppark most cogently ; and certainly , careful and committed reconstruction , such as can be seen at Chatelherault where Hamilton district council has faithfully , and against all the odds , achieved a marvellous reproduction of William Adam 's hunting lodge for the fifth Duke of Hamilton , is not to be jeered at . |
| 13 | In an isolated instance , it seems a sign of inexperience , of trying to include too much ; and certainly the virtues of the film remain theatrical . |
| 14 | It is Mr York who bangs the drum in John Kirkpatrick 's apparently authentic , and certainly suitable band music . |
| 15 | A first time garden is usually small and certainly the typical one I am imagining for this series is no more than 40ft x 20ft and surrounded on all sides by other houses . |
| 16 | It would have been cheaper — and certainly better PR — if speakers had been offered jugs of iced water , the liquid being supplied by North West Water . |
| 17 | Football can be a cruel game and the undeniable , unpalatable truth is that Robson 's key players are not getting any better than they were two years ago ( with the arguable exception of Shilton ) , and certainly no younger . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose it could be the fact that I backed Double Dutch at 10-1 as a saver simply because I think she 's good value and certainly not because there 's anything wrong with my horse , ’ Ramsden said . |
| 19 | Part of the Heseltine strategy is , no doubt , based on the calculation that these debts one day can be collected — and certainly , within the Conservative Party 's electoral college of MPs , he ought to have established some impressive lines of credit . |
| 20 | Any plotters would have to mount little short of a full-scale coup , involving probably the army and certainly the KGB . |
| 21 | Primarily , however , an empirically based study of public order policing is impossible to undertake in the midst of the province 's continuing violent conflict , and certainly could not be done with the degree of depth , empirical focus , familiarity , and , frankly , personal safety which an ethnographic study of routine policing allows . |
| 22 | Neighbourhood men are often the butt of jokes among section police about their laziness , because what the neighbourhood police do does not seem to them like work , and certainly not ‘ real ’ police work . |
| 23 | During his time at Cuddesdon something happened to the Church of England , at the national level , which left an indelible mark upon many young ordinands of the time , and certainly upon Michael Ramsey . |
| 24 | For an unintelligible speaker to learn to speak intelligibly , it may not be the best training , and certainly it is not the only training , to send him to the pulpit of Boston parish church . |
| 25 | ( There was no truth in this legend but such legends gathered about the young Michael Ramsey and certainly he was odd in processions . ) |
| 26 | Nobody had told me what a cinema or a film was , and certainly nothing about the concept of an animated cartoon ; and I was taken into the largest enclosed space I 'd ever seen , into a crowd of strangers , put on a seat , and the lights went out . |
| 27 | Seventy years on Michael Carson , writing of his own homosexual desire for the racially other , expresses a similar sentiment though now with a revealing , probably necessary , and certainly crucial distinction : ‘ I have always been sexually attracted to foreigners . |
| 28 | Possibly , except that in homosexual culture it has rarely been , and certainly was not tor Genet , quite that simple . |
| 29 | To date no one has produced a more succinct or more plausible definition of Conservatism , and certainly neither Honderich nor Eccleshall has provided an adequate alternative . |
| 30 | The conception of state-civil society relations which informed Burke 's ( and Smith 's ) thought was highly complex , and certainly Burke was too much of an ‘ organicist ’ to have accepted the Thatcherite idea that society does not exist and that individuals and their families are the basic units of consideration . |