Example sentences of "certain be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | These may or may not have significance ; what needs to be certain is that descriptions are accurate , for if they are wrong , deductions from them will be valueless . |
| 2 | Pound may be right or wrong about the merits of Binyon 's version , as about the sorts of language that are acceptable in verse translation ; what is certain is that he 's here applying to diction a sort of sliding scale or set of variable standards such as Ford 's principles did n't allow for . |
| 3 | What is certain is that the pre-1989 Austin/MG range , all Skodas , Yugos and quite a few Lancias do not , which does not help already depressed resale prices . |
| 4 | What is certain is that Oakland start their second consecutive World Series as firm favourites , their combination of power ( Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire ) , pitching ( Dave Stewart and Mike Moore ) , defence ( Mike Gallego and Carney Lansford ) and speed commonly seen as too strong for a San Francisco side carrying several half-fit pitchers and vulnerable defensively to Henderson 's base stealing . |
| 5 | There is a local story that Queen Elizabeth spent a night here ; what is certain is that she passed on this road on her way from Burderop to Cirencester . |
| 6 | What is certain is that on the bright and sunny morning of 4 June 1913 the forty-year-old Emily Davison called at the offices of the WSPU in London and asked for two of the union 's white , green and purple flags . |
| 7 | What is certain is that the creative use of recorders was a general expectation : the saintly and amiable Ahmad Bu Aziza , asked to record an account of Zuwaya trading , refused to do so on the spot , but made an appointment for two days later ‘ to give me time to make the poem ’ . |
| 8 | What is certain is that , did it exist and were it to be opened by some ‘ cleansing regime ’ , the happy openness of British life would go for good . |
| 9 | What is certain is that the West Indies enter today 's match under considerable pressure after their disappointing World Cup campaign , while the South Africans have little to lose . |
| 10 | The answer is still not clear , but what is certain is that the five-rayed plan was established even in the Cambrian in a number of diverse echinoderms ; it is evidently highly functional . |
| 11 | What is certain is that the corn milling firm of Reynolds and Allen were using at least part of it during the 1860s . |
| 12 | What is certain is that the results of the Italian war of 1859 , though wildly popular in France , were far from being what the Emperor desired . |
| 13 | All that is certain is that the old certainty no longer exists . |
| 14 | What is certain is that the boat capsized and all on board were drowned . |
| 15 | What is certain is that he carried the legend of a king or emperor waiting to be reborn for several centuries , just as the British King Arthur has done . |
| 16 | However many difficulties you have faced , what is certain is that you will have kept on learning , both about the realities of the business world and about yourself . |
| 17 | One thing that is certain is that there are thousands of waste producers ( and carriers ) who will have to start paying attention to what is in the skip . |
| 18 | ‘ In East Hampshire the one thing for certain is that Michael Mates will be returned , although with a much reduced majority . |
| 19 | But what is almost certain is that around 60% of sufferers have some sort of genetic susceptibility to it , and three times as many women as men suffer from this distressing condition . |
| 20 | Much remains to be learned of their activities , but what is certain is that they had converts in high places — notably Edward Wood ( of whom more anon ) , Leo Amery , and Lord Hailey of African Survey fame and immense Colonial Office influence — and that through their publication of a journal widely respected for its seriousness they kept before the eyes of the political establishment the idea of a new kind of empire . |
| 21 | Dr Einon says : ‘ What is absolutely certain is that playing the game for this length of time did not make his scores worse . ’ |
| 22 | Whether he attended the Academy or not , what is certain is that he wanted to live with a practising painter as a working apprentice . |
| 23 | What must be certain is that their problems will be heard and evaluated . |
| 24 | What is certain is that we need to recapture the vision of the primitive church , for if only we could drag ourselves away from our television sets and unhook our headphones from our portable stereos we would hear the clear call to arms . |
| 25 | What is certain is that she will stamp her own identity on whatever activities she heads up within the White House . |
| 26 | But he admitted : ‘ I believe that unemployment will go on rising for some time yet , but what is certain is that the measures I have taken will assist the employment situation . ’ |
| 27 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 28 | What is certain is that the Taube in its various forms was a much-loved and respected aeroplane , safe and relatively easy to fly . |
| 29 | What 's certain is that it will cost some promoter a lot of money . |
| 30 | What is certain is that for countless ages the greatest mountain range on earth will continue to form an impenetrable barrier to the terrestrial animals that live north and south of it . |