Example sentences of "are certainly a " in BNC.
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| 1 | West Indies are certainly a formidable one-day force in the Caribbean . |
| 2 | Publishers ' blurbs — i.e. the brief descriptions of books on the insides of dust covers — may sometimes be used as selection information by librarians , and are certainly a very important factor for readers selecting from library shelves , though they constitute at best a dubious selection instrument for librarians and readers alike . |
| 3 | Police officers who expressed a racist ideology are certainly a small minority . |
| 4 | Monika said yesterday : ‘ He needs to go a lot further for me to be happy — but these letters are certainly a start . ’ |
| 5 | The tales of Mountain Biker Attacks Rambler are certainly a far cry from the friendliness we met with in this area . |
| 6 | However , although technology and agriculture may not be sufficient conditions for human happiness , they are certainly a necessary prerequisite , Freud argued . |
| 7 | Although advances in urban dialectology are certainly a by-product of his methods , his principal objectives were to use variable data as a means of elucidating processes of linguistic change and more generally to contribute to core linguistic theory ( cf. 5.2.1 ) . |
| 8 | There are certainly a number of obvious difficulties which need to be acknowledged ; first of all , some groups are extremely small , and where divisions are made on the basis of two speaker variables ( such as social class and sex ) it may seem a little unreal to label the persons who fall into one of the resulting categories as something along the lines of ‘ the upper-middle-class female group ’ . |
| 9 | This may or may not be desirable : administrators sometimes act more quickly than lawyers and judges ( they are certainly a lot less expensive ) , but they are always vulnerable to regulatory capture and they can make bad decisions if they are poorly funded and undermanned ( for some observations on this issue , see Areeda , 1992 . ) |
| 10 | Rivalries are certainly a feature of intellectual life . |
| 11 | Yeah , er reading and listening are certainly a part , sorry , no skills which you have n't got , you gon na have a problem , in terms of influencing . |
| 12 | They are certainly a less pervasive influence than are the boardroom knights who sign over company funds to the Conservatives . |
| 13 | There , there lids are certainly a better idea , built with better fasteners cos there 's . |
| 14 | The latter are primarily submarine features and will not be discussed here although they are certainly an important component of passive margin development ( see Section 4.5 ) . |