Example sentences of "certainly a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a successful lecturer , much in demand , and put lectures together to make up books ; certainly a book is the ideal medium for a critic 's extended advocacy of an artist . |
| 2 | As Ackroyd 's ventriloquised Wilde makes clear , Wilde was a great exaggerator and , like his friend Whitman , a great contradictor of himself ; and he is certainly a great source of dualistic formulations , in all their slippery bliss . |
| 3 | This was certainly a cheap option , and there were some short- or medium-distance routes where such a basic vehicle was considered acceptable . |
| 4 | It was certainly a spectacular display of what dancers could do with their legs whilst merely marching but the ports de bras were very limited and merely swung at the sides or sprang to attention . |
| 5 | It was certainly a surprise to Watney 's , which for the previous four months had been planning its own takeover bid for Truman 's , so that it could close the high-cost Mann 's site . |
| 6 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 7 | Despite his metrical conservatism ( his strenuous handling of the pentameter is surely surprising and admirable ) and his unfashionable addiction to the grand manner and the high style , Allen Tate was certainly a modernist ; that is what he was thought to be , and it is how he conceived of himself . |
| 8 | Not , in truth , a pub rock venue , but certainly a pub rock act . |
| 9 | A sample : We 're coming in to land at Speke My legs are feeling very weak We 've just returned from Barcelona And now I 'm going for a sauna Toshack is of Scottish descent , and there is certainly a bit of McGonagall in there , though not the best bit . |
| 10 | There is certainly a war on , but no one seems to notice the one going on outside . |
| 11 | Next time I saw Joe he looked maybe not 10 years younger but certainly a totally different man and ready to rock . |
| 12 | Whatever the implications of this view for socialist ideology , it was certainly a priority forced upon the Attlee governments . |
| 13 | I worry about what was certainly a facet of the past in this country — a view that you could be a professional director of dozens of companies . |
| 14 | Boxing is certainly a business ; great fortunes are made and more are kept than before . |
| 15 | Market research shows at least 3,500 practices plan to computerise in the next 12 months , and this is almost certainly a conservative figure . |
| 16 | In the Nixon-Kissinger years , while there was no direct military intervention against the democratically-elected Marxist government of Salvador Allende , there was certainly a concerted destabilisation programme which contributed to his fall from power . |
| 17 | The front is certainly a broad church and those who have rallied to its support , the entire political spectrum . |
| 18 | There was probably a nunnery here originally , and certainly a manor since the 1300s , for there are the remains of a fish-pond in the garden . |
| 19 | The Lake House is certainly a rural building of pleasure . |
| 20 | There is certainly a protective touch about Israel in Mr Solarz 's public utterances on the Middle East . |
| 21 | There was certainly a multitude of advisers but all too few people who took responsibility for action and for failure . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , he was certainly a learned man . |
| 23 | The last movement of this symphony is certainly a case in point . |
| 24 | Our ‘ novel ’ was almost certainly a write-off , but that in a sense gave a kind of freedom . |
| 25 | This may not appear surprising ; it was certainly a serious drawback for Mary as queen that her upbringing had given her only second-hand knowledge of her country . |
| 26 | The same anonymous writer who heard Spurgeon in 1884 went across the river to the City Temple but again was not complimentary : ‘ If you can forgive a bad delivery with occasional dropping of aspirates , and the incessant introduction of Gladstonian politics in connection with holy things , you will find in Dr Parker 's sermons much that is impressive and certainly a great deal that is novel . ’ |
| 27 | Consider a small protein 100 amino acids long ; if that is too improbable to arise by chance , then certainly a whole organism is . |
| 28 | It is certainly a simple explanation . |
| 29 | Her dress was certainly a treat . |
| 30 | Estimates of the development cost vary greatly , but the high cost is certainly a principal factor in holding back the market . |