Example sentences of "it is [adv] certain that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even if things go fairly badly it is not certain that voters would turn to Labour as economic saviour . |
| 5 | However , it is not certain that this completely solves the problem . |
| 6 | It is not certain that a majority of the parliament will follow him when a free vote is held on the question of where Germany 's government should be . |
| 7 | It is not certain that Warrington , best remembered as Philip in Rising Damp , actually swallowed the medicine , but his performances have since had great zest . |
| 8 | The problem with placing Mary Leapor within this discussion is that it is not certain that she read any of the poems with which these critics are primarily concerned . |
| 9 | Sources within TRT said it was considering whether apply for a licence of its own , but it is not certain that the company will actually need one : it may be able to operate under the Worldcom licence — assuming that IDB 's acquisition goes through , TRT and Worldcom will share the same parent . |
| 10 | According to Mark Raymond , senior analyst at consultancy DataPro , ‘ The action will clearly strengthen the chances of it becoming the industry standard , but it is not certain that it will influence the IEEE ’ . |
| 11 | Although it is not certain that property qualifications were required for liverymen , several companies are known to have imposed minima for admission to their freedom . |
| 12 | Though the Life says that Aethelbald 's happiness as king had grown in succeeding years ( since his accession ) ( Vita Guthlaci , ch. 52 ) , it is not certain that this means that Aethelbald was ‘ apparently at the height of his power ’ , and it is not impossible that the Life dates to a period before Aethelbald had asserted his authority outside his own kingdom — perhaps c . |
| 13 | A stranger , if he is prudent , will secure his share for it is not certain that he will be able to eat any thing else . ’ ) |
| 14 | Were all the surface repositories on Mars to be included then the depletions would be reduced , but it is not certain that they would be eliminated . |
| 15 | For iron it is about 1000 K. This is a plausible explanation of the Mercurian field , though it is not certain that a slowly cooling core would end up with an appreciable magnetic dipole moment . |
| 16 | Probably now , and certainly after 1992 , it is not certain that gas in the United Kingdom sector will be landed in the United Kingdom ; it is likely to be sucked into mainland Europe , where prices are higher . |
| 17 | It is not certain that a schema which is valid for the classification of physical entities will be capable of application to epistemological studies . |
| 18 | That coins were minted in the names of bishops and churches is clear , but it is not certain that they mark an encroachment into a royal preserve . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It also explains why it is virtually certain that Britain 's main trunk lines will rely on optical fibre . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |