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 Drug money has certainly had a baleful impact on Guatemala , but there is nothing particularly new about it .
6 It has secured sales and has certainly proved a successful campaign .
7 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 .
8 Oh dear well you 've certainly made a nice job of it here anyway .
9 ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’
10 Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day .
11 Although Sherman had not used the keyboard , he had certainly made a combinatorial request .
12 We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy , when we thought that the earth was the centre of the universe !
13 Although older men have certainly experienced a substantial decline in job opportunities , the problems faced by older women should not be underestimated .
14 It 's certainly come a long way from the upstairs room at the Albert .
15 He 's certainly had a long talk with me since you left the team — ’
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