Example sentences of "it is certainly [adj] that " in BNC.

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1 It is certainly essential that the grounds on which the discretion to refuse relief can be exercised should be spelled out as clearly as possible , and that those grounds should be supportable by rational argument .
2 It is certainly odd that mass stranding usually involve deepwater species , not only pilot whales but also sperm whale and white-sided dolphins .
3 It is certainly encouraging that parents , not government , are choosing to expand the number of integrated schools in the Province .
4 According to Mecdi , Ecezade won Selim 's regard and affection while the latter was governor in Trabzon ; and it is certainly implicit that it was as a result of this affection that Ecezade received the kadiliks of Selanik and Bursa .
5 It is certainly possible that we do indeed have an innate sense of ‘ place ’ .
6 It is certainly possible that the confluence of various tides of change in assessment policy will prove instrumental in creating a wave of sufficient magnitude to bring about a revolution in attitudes to 16+ certification : of generating a degree of momentum that no single initiative could achieve by itself .
7 It is certainly possible that the distinctions between different types of variable drawn by Dressler and Wodak and by Kerswill will turn out to be methodologically important in as much as they yield new insights into the principles underlying patterns of variation and processes of change .
8 It is certainly possible that Mercury once had a molten iron core which has since partly or wholly solidified .
9 ‘ They look at each individual case , but it is certainly possible that Liverpool will be punished for three red cards .
10 It is certainly desirable that relationships between geomorphological processes and climatic parameters are established using the results of process studies and then extended towards the global scale , and such relationships could enhance the understanding involved in climatic geomorphology .
11 But it is certainly true that in the last sixty years the various schools and academies of acting have had a significant effect on the climate of acting .
12 And while it might be said that his version of pochvennost comes from this same source , and while it is certainly true that pochvennost deserves a longer footnote than the Petrine reforms , a footnote is all it should be .
13 Nathan had needed no special arrangements : when very well dressed he looks scruffy — I suppose it must be a gift ; it is certainly true that he could n't give it away — and today he was not very well dressed .
14 In the public-spending round of Government it is certainly true that departments overbid on the basis that when it comes to the crunch they can bring the bid down without damage .
15 . It is certainly true that as men came to understand the natural world and thus to control it , they began to banish God from it .
16 It is certainly true that a great deal of the competition between nationalists and unionists concerned the distribution of resources .
17 It is certainly true that for a few crucial generations in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the influence of Spanish Jesuits on the never-very-alert minds of the Habsburg emperors was decisive .
18 And it is certainly true that , on previous form , the centre party has failed to extract any long-term benefit from recent occasions when it has held the balance of power .
19 It is certainly true that if neither of the main parties emerges with an overall majority after Thursday there will have to be some intense horsetrading .
20 It is certainly true that it is worth ‘ pooling ’ sovereignty in some areas since it makes more sense to do this than to act independently .
21 While it is certainly true that the central core never issued a single agreed programme , a considerable degree of cohesion does emerge from an examination of their critical writings , and an impression of shared novelistic values is suggested by their willingness ( to a greater or lesser extent ) to appear on the same platform at conferences on several occasions and to accept , however grudgingly , the ‘ nouveau roman ’ appellation .
22 It is certainly true that in many cases warts will regress and even disappear without any treatment , but it is unclear why this should happen and there is no way of predicting which sufferers will be able to rid themselves of the warts or how to stimulate the body 's defence to that end .
23 It is certainly true that at the time of the Butler Education Act the school curriculum was not much discussed in public , although certain assumptions about its content were in fact incorporated in the Act .
24 It is certainly true that many CAB clients would be unable to cope with it but many others , currently excluded from the bureau by long queues , would welcome it .
25 Whilst it is certainly true that behaviour is no substitute for knowledge , the way you behave is the biggest single factor in making an impact on the way other people respond to you .
26 Whilst it is certainly true that any process is better than none , awareness of all four aspects best equips people to deal with all eventualities .
27 More neutrally it is certainly true that the range of courses we offer continues to increase .
28 It is certainly true that helical structures known to assemble in this way almost invariably possess only one hand .
29 It is certainly true that , given the right circumstances , computers can ‘ reduce the drudgery , freeing the brain in front of the screen to do more productive things ’ .
30 It is certainly true that no two zebras are exactly alike in the details of their black and white lines .
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