Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] certain that " in BNC.

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1 It 's pretty certain that you can stay .
2 We 've run a series of programs through the computer in the Command Centre and it 's almost certain that the plutonium originated from the nuclear recovery plant outside Mainz in West Germany .
3 " It 's almost certain that the enemy will attack the Residency from the north , very likely at dawn tomorrow .
4 It 's almost certain that he will also be asked to continue as Ulster captain , and with the likelihood of Michael Bradley standing down as Ireland 's leader , McBride could be the man to step into the Munsterman 's boots .
5 Swindon Health Authority says Mrs Friel 's notes have since been destroyed , but it 's almost certain that the hormone she was injected with was n't gonadotrophin .
6 With the league regionalised over Winter it 's almost certain that Clwyd , Gwynedd and Powys teams will prop up the table for a couple of months .
7 Despite the brinkmanship it 's virtually certain that Tbilisi will go ahead with the appeal — and lodge it before the deadline .
8 Wherever it is going to come from , however , it 's quite certain that ELT publishers require growth .
9 It di we do n't get all the details in the story that Jesus tells of here , but it 's quite certain that it was n't just a case of wandering along a nice path until he found the sheep and then bringing it home .
10 It is pretty certain that , in term of what adults mean by ‘ longer ’ the children do not really think that the pencil is longer ; but why do they say this ?
11 It is pretty certain that the watercourses which ran down down to the lake were pretty foul in those days , although , it is quite possible that excrement was utilised to a fair extent as a garden fertiliser .
12 While it is true that most houses in the world 's seismic zones are made from earth , and most deaths in earthquakes are attributable to the collapse of earthen structures , it is equally certain that high-tech solutions will never be disseminated .
13 It is practically certain that Choerilus had in mind the eastern Ethiopians , and that he combined several passages from Homer ( Odys. 5.283 ) and from Herodotus ( 7.79 ; 7.89 and possibly 3.8 ) to form his fanciful picture .
14 The owner of the estate in the fourth century would thus have been a Firminus , since it is reasonably certain that this building stone belonged to the house built c .
15 It is also certain that whilst the leaders of a community may have , possibly for political expediency , formally converted to Christianity , most people retained their pagan beliefs and practices .
16 Moreover , it is also certain that English-speaking scholars do not have reliable retrospective intuitions about EModE pronunciation any more than they have reliable intuitions about divergent states at the present day .
17 It is also certain that the number thirty-three in one of the quotations is a textual corruption : the Galatica may have had fewer books .
18 It is also certain that the Home Secretary knew of the special branch involvement by the time he made his statement on Judge Tumim 's inquiry .
19 To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do .
20 It is virtually certain that they will require details of the personal characteristics of the informants , in many cases such facts as sex , age , marital status , social class , educational level , and so on .
21 It also explains why it is virtually certain that Britain 's main trunk lines will rely on optical fibre .
22 New research has shown that UVA causes severe ageing changes in the skin of mice and it is virtually certain that humans get degenerative changes , too , and perhaps acceleration of skin cancers .
23 As the manor of Whitwell was valued by a feodary survey at £3. 13s. 9d. , it is virtually certain that the £80 assessment of Richard Flower , the resident owner , must be interpreted as meaning his whole income scaled down by 20 per cent .
24 There is now , however , a non-zero probability that in any time period a price war will break out , and in an infinitely repeated market it is virtually certain that one will be observed .
25 It is virtually certain that Article 86 gives rise to a cause of action in English law at the suit of a person damnified by its contravention and it does so on the basis of an action for breach of statutory duty so that the court may award damages .
26 He was the last missioner to the deaf to be Chairman of the BDA , and it is virtually certain that he was the last hearing person to hold this office .
27 It is virtually certain that Friedrich Muenzer was mistaken in taking the Herculean legend of the Fabii as an invention of an Augustan antiquarian ( P.-W. , s.v .
28 It is virtually certain that he was kadi of Bursa in 802/1400 , for there exist three documents of Bayezid I 's dated in that year which bear the signature of Molla Fenari as kadi of Bursa ; and that he was still kadi at least well into 804 is indicated by yet another document cited by Husameddin , the of the Inebeg b .
29 It is morally certain that a number of persons signed confessions to crimes of which they were innocent .
30 We need not bother with the details , save to say that it is quite certain that all the contemporary accounts of Balboa 's triumph — which mention that he first saw the Pacific at 10 am on Tuesday , 25 September — are wrong .
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