Example sentences of "have certainly [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 MICHAEL Roberts has certainly gone a long way towards silencing his critics in the past week .
2 The original meaning , as defined by Collins , has certainly taken a mean whipping before re-release into this streetwise prose but we 're talking the same thing here , are n't we ?
3 ‘ It has certainly taken a great deal of time for myself and the other ten or so members of our committee .
4 The death of Froggy Davies has certainly removed a real character from the golf scene .
5 Anneka was today filming on location somewhere in London for her current programme , Capital Woman , ‘ which has certainly required an extra effort . ’
6 Drug money has certainly had a baleful impact on Guatemala , but there is nothing particularly new about it .
7 With a list of accolades under her no doubt stylish belt — including the prestigious British Designer of the Year Award in 1985 and an MBE in 1987 — she has certainly had an illustrious career .
8 It has secured sales and has certainly proved a successful campaign .
9 He 'd certainly used an interior designer , and whoever it was had done a really remarkable job .
10 The base categories selected for the explanatory variables are old and poor , to try to avoid negative paths ; if we had used the young as the baseline , we would have certainly produced a negative effect of old age on preparedness to break the law , for example .
11 Oh dear well you 've certainly made a nice job of it here anyway .
12 ‘ You 've certainly got an odd collection here , ’ said Finn .
13 ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’
14 Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day .
15 Although Sherman had not used the keyboard , he had certainly made a combinatorial request .
16 You have certainly done an excellent job and I hope that at our next meeting on 11 August 1993 at 10.00 a.m .
17 Finniston 's own skills have certainly made an enormous contribution to the industrial growth of Britain .
18 Cardiff have certainly adopted an efficient recruitment policy .
19 We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy , when we thought that the earth was the centre of the universe !
20 Unless there were special factors involved and although I can not recall a situation where we 've paid for a person to go into that 's for members to discuss , not me , but we have certainly paid an enhanced rate where somebody wanted to go to live near their daughter who was in and we felt that was a legitimate reason for paying a higher rate and , and , and we did do so , so there are other types of flexibility .
21 Although older men have certainly experienced a substantial decline in job opportunities , the problems faced by older women should not be underestimated .
22 Erm , but certainly erm but er he 's certainly got an interesting face .
23 It 's certainly come a long way from the upstairs room at the Albert .
24 He 's certainly had a long talk with me since you left the team — ’
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