Example sentences of "it certainly [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was strained through sieves into stone water jars , and if the truth were told , it was probably not very alcoholic and it certainly had a short life . |
| 2 | It certainly fills a large gap in the market with interesting and challenging text . " |
| 3 | The shock caused by Balfour 's going thus did something to steady the party and it certainly produced a real determination to settle the affairs of the party with less friction than had been fashionable of late . |
| 4 | The effect of all this activity in committees and small consultative groups is incalculable , but it certainly represented a formidable contribution to the growth of interest in the conservation of industrial buildings and machines . |
| 5 | It certainly identifies a central tendency in a particular repertory ; but it goes on not only to consume that repertory in every aspect but also to gobble up all kinds of popular music . |
| 6 | It certainly made a big difference . |
| 7 | He insisted the princess could be crowned queen if Charles was king and they lived separate lives but said : ‘ There would be no constitutional bar , but it certainly requires a strong effort of imagination to project oneself forward into that situation . ’ |
| 8 | It certainly makes a great difference to our lives when we see prayer as delighting in God . |
| 9 | It certainly makes a refreshing change from reams of text menus . |
| 10 | I do n't know when this story started but it certainly happened a long time ago . |
| 11 | It certainly rained a great deal in Nuku'alofa , the gales whipping up the surf into clouds of spume and sending broken branches spinning through the air . |
| 12 | This request was obviously not well received , for at the bottom of the letter is the hand-written comment : ‘ At first sight it certainly appears a bad case of body snatching , but I assume this is not so . ’ |
| 13 | Whether or not we will shortly have a passive computer lobby , it certainly gives a new meaning to the hacking cough . |
| 14 | Although it certainly has a romantic streak , our subject is a serious academic discipline ; it is not an intellectualized transcendental meditation in which exotic beliefs are wrenched crudely from their setting to be appropriated in the selfish pursuit of some second-hand , simulated , and ultimately spurious nirvana . |