Example sentences of "was certainly [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ It was certainly a Sacred Grove of some sort . |
| 2 | The Employment Policy White Paper was certainly a major declaration of intent but effective consensus also requires agreement over means . |
| 3 | The injury done on that October night in Lambeth was certainly a lurid reminder of the reality of extremist campaigning . |
| 4 | It was certainly a spectacular display of what dancers could do with their legs whilst merely marching but the ports de bras were very limited and merely swung at the sides or sprang to attention . |
| 5 | There was certainly a good deal of evidence , up to the 1980s , that developments of this kind were taking place . |
| 6 | She was certainly a true daughter of a remarkably colourful family , for she was born a Saunderson , a line of famous Protestant fighters who were sent to settle in Ireland in the seventeenth century to quell the local rebels . |
| 7 | However , Dick Crossman was certainly a remarkable man of great intellectual power , with an astonishing capacity for synthesising viewpoints into an effective plan . |
| 8 | There was certainly a large element of irony in his demeanour and conversation , although it was a quality not immediately apparent when he was in the company of more sober or " respectable " people ; in those circumstances he could , as it were , give as good as he got . |
| 9 | The central focus of case management as it was originally conceived in North America was certainly the better co-ordination of services . |
| 10 | On the point of commenting scathingly that not everyone could be expected to be as cold-blooded as he was , Gina hesitated , finally deciding that in this case discretion was certainly the better part of valour . |
| 11 | Many of them left early , to be well rested for Sunday lunch at Martha Hyder 's which was certainly the prettiest party of all . |
| 12 | Collar was certainly the junior member of the partnership , but those who know his mathematical style are well able to perceive his many areas of contribution to the book . |
| 13 | At the same time , the principle of excluding the Jews from German society was itself widely and increasingly popular , and Hitler 's hatred of the Jews — baleful in its threats but linked to the condoning of lawful , ‘ rational ’ action , not the unpopular crude violence and brutality of the Party 's ‘ gutter ’ elements — was certainly an acceptable component of his popular image , even if it was an element ‘ taken on board ’ rather than forming a centrally motivating factor for most Germans . |
| 14 | As much of his work makes clear ( see particularly Labov 1982b ) , the chief objective was not to describe relationships between speaker and linguistic variables , although this was certainly an interesting by-product of quantitative method which for some might comprise its main significance ; it is certainly of great practical interest to a number of professions ( see chapter 9 ) . |