Example sentences of "[pron] is certainly " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , he decided , Emersonianism — a disease ( if that is what it is ) which is certainly no less rife now than it was when Winters made his diagnosis fifty years ago . |
| 2 | There are several references to the importance commentators attached to the relationship between the stability of the family and that of the state , which is certainly crucial to explaining the long reluctance to reform the divorce law . |
| 3 | ( The deputy leader , Seamus Mallon described the Labour Party as ‘ Cromwellian ’ which is certainly not a term of endearment . ) |
| 4 | The Smiths have this superstar aura about them now which is certainly not what I thought they would grow into . |
| 5 | ‘ One law for the rich and another for the poor ’ is an old saying which is certainly true of the way the law is enforced . |
| 6 | Apparently from the notes , a certain Fruchtbaum in the Times Literary Supplement has described Charles on setting out on the Beagle voyage in such terms , which is certainly an exaggeration , but I do not know anyone else who has ever subscribed to that opinion . |
| 7 | Only 0–40 per cent of pentads should turn out to be of this length or less in this context , so that the expected number of pentads like Saintbury is only about 0–0040 × 0–042 = 0–00017 — which is certainly significant at the 1 per cent level . |
| 8 | Standing by the front door is an excellent vantage point from which to admire the main part of the garden which is certainly colourful . |
| 9 | Acoustically , this guitar sounds slightly brighter than the cheaper SW213 , which is certainly due to the condition of the strings , rather than the construction , as the materials used are common to both instruments . |
| 10 | This has not done much to improve its reputation as a heavy , high-calorie food , which is certainly undeserved . |
| 11 | One example , which is certainly related to schizophrenia and which we shall come across again , is ‘ schizotypal personality disorder ’ . |
| 12 | But , apparently , its availability in Eastern Europe during the late-Eighties helped hasten the collapse of Communism — which is certainly more of a revolutionary achievement than either of the other two music forms managed . |
| 13 | None of this , however , should be interpreted as implying that Semai are callous or indifferent to the welfare of their neighbours and kin , which is certainly not the case ; it merely demonstrates that another person 's problems and affairs are pre-eminently his own ; ‘ hal mai , hal mai ; hal hii ’ , hal hii' ’ is the apposite aphorism : ‘ their affairs are theirs ; our affairs are ours . ’ |
| 14 | According to Robert Graves ( 1960 ) , in the Minoan and Mycenean cultures the double-axe was forbidden to males , which is certainly consistent with the Minoan iconography . |
| 15 | For all this , however , business can not ignore minimum financial constraints without serious consequences , a fact which is certainly allowed for in most of the literature which nevertheless emphasises the non-profit maximising nature of merger activity . |
| 16 | His claim in Chapter 1 to provide that this is essentially the only possible definition is belied by the existence of Boltzmann 's definition , which is certainly different . |
| 17 | Shepherd ( 1984 ) prefers the term " ultra-free entry " , which is certainly more descriptive , but the earlier term has become established and is the one I shall continue to use . |
| 18 | The very phrase suggests a headlong dash — which is certainly what it feels like . |
| 19 | We have , in particular , a modernized sector of production which is certainly not organized on the basis of locality . |
| 20 | It is found in the Otho text of Layamon 's Brut , but not in the Caligula text , which is certainly south- west Midland . |
| 21 | One wonders just exactly how much banging a drum has to do with growing up , but the central issue of manhood is one which is certainly worth addressing . |
| 22 | However , the practices and procedures which the team has adopted seem to have been shaped more directly by a -latent agenda of issues : a preference amongst the team 's management for a " hands on service ; the maintenance , until recently , of a strong health authority orientation to the team ( a hospital base , the dominance of the psychiatrist 's authority , the hospital itself as a central feature of the Borough 's service pattern ) ; a separatism which has been maintained between the social workers and the CMHNs over the team 's access to health and social service resources , so that social workers may refer clients for social service resources , and nurses for health authority resources , but not vice versa ; These features have tended to rule out for the team any sustained attention to the developmental role — a role which is certainly a part of its official brief , but which is clearly not a priority in terms of its current practice . |
| 23 | In this context it is interesting to note that in 1976 the DES informed the WJEC that it was customary to use the title ‘ College or Institute of Higher Education ’ only for establishments where the advanced courses represent 60 per cent or more of the total provision , which is certainly not the case in all the Welsh colleges . |
| 24 | The First Book of the Maccabees quotes a letter from Jonathan the Maccabee to the Spartans which is probably authentic ( 12.6 ) and a letter from the Spartans to his successor Simon which is certainly authentic ( 14.20 ) . |
| 25 | Rainbow , unaware that she has succeeded in reviving an old Babylonian technique for the conjuration of spirits , blinks at something which is certainly not her own reflection . |
| 26 | This can be claimed for romantic and romance , but is not appropriate in the case of arable farmer , nor of foreign policy or animate nouns from ( 7 ) , nor of new in ( 17 ) nor naked in ( 18 ) ; and it would clearly not apply for nuclear scientist either ; while there does exist a noun nucleus , which is certainly the etymological origin of the adjective , the scientist is , synchronically and in the usage of the ordinary speaker , to be connected with the indefinite notion of nuclear matters ( where , for example , Latin would have used the neuter plural of an adjective ) rather than directly with nucleus ; one may reasonably guess that many speakers to whom the word nucleus is quite unfamiliar would nevertheless feel they understood quite satisfactorily a headline which read : TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST GOES MISSING ! |
| 27 | So long as the techniques that determine both how software is used and how it is made are only in the hands of technical experts , computer systems will never find the universal application which is certainly within their grasp . |
| 28 | Which is certainly right . |
| 29 | This version by Northern Stage rather downplays the shock value of that final betrayal , which is certainly a flaw . |
| 30 | Not the least is his declared wish to advance by consensus , which is certainly easier on the ear than Michael Forsyth 's strident challenges to the world and its big brother . |