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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It also explains why it is virtually certain that Britain 's main trunk lines will rely on optical fibre . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is morally certain that a number of persons signed confessions to crimes of which they were innocent . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is quite certain that the poets Shakespeare , Keats , Byron and Wordsworth never saw a Hybrid Tea rose . |
| 23 | It would be quite impracticable to carry waste rock any great distance and it is quite certain that ore being produced at Coniston , was machine and hand dressed to as great a concentration as possible , before filling into strong saddle bags for the 20 mile pack-horse journey , over the mountain tops , to the Brigham smelters . |
| 24 | An informed insider told me last night : ‘ It is absolutely certain that Nigel has done the deal . |
| 25 | It is therefore certain that serial harmony , to suit a broad spectrum of different aesthetics , must be adapted to our individual needs . |
| 26 | Since most of these control movements are semi-automatic and largely preprogrammed , it is almost certain that this was the initial cause of his reaching such a high speed . |
| 27 | It is almost certain that Leonard 's interest in Zen Buddhism was sown at this time , and his ‘ anti-intellectualism ’ confirmed . |
| 28 | It is not surprising , since it is almost certain that the European Commission will shortly propose that labelling of ingredients for alcoholic drinks should become law throughout the community . |
| 29 | Nobody knows exactly who built South Luffenham , but it is almost certain that an architect called John Sturges supplied the drawings . |
| 30 | If he makes a will , as most men do , it is almost certain that he will set apart a considerable proportion for the saying of masses ; if he should neglect to do so , and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it is regarded as almost a sin to die without making a will , the Church ought to make the provision which he has failed to make for his soul . |