Example sentences of "certain is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is less certain is whether the whole complex machinery for monetary union will be in place by the start of 1993 , as most EC leaders want . |
| 2 | What is less certain is whether the whole complex machinery for monetary union will be in place by the start of 1993 , as most EC leaders want . |
| 3 | What is less certain is whether they have been , or will be , offset by corresponding gains . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What is certain is that the corn milling firm of Reynolds and Allen were using at least part of it during the 1860s . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | All that is certain is that the old certainty no longer exists . |
| 17 | What is certain is that the boat capsized and all on board were drowned . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ In East Hampshire the one thing for certain is that Michael Mates will be returned , although with a much reduced majority . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Dr Einon says : ‘ What is absolutely certain is that playing the game for this length of time did not make his scores worse . ’ |
| 25 | Whether he attended the Academy or not , what is certain is that he wanted to live with a practising painter as a working apprentice . |
| 26 | What must be certain is that their problems will be heard and evaluated . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | What is certain is that she will stamp her own identity on whatever activities she heads up within the White House . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |