Example sentences of "certainly [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had certainly expected to receive a large response , but had not anticipated the near-unanimous chorus of offers to increase your contributions to the lifeboat service . |
| 2 | Sanipet certainly seem to have a promising future ahead of them . |
| 3 | IT 'S QUICKER by tube , ran the advert for the London Underground — and Courtaulds Packaging Betts Tubes ' site in Stevenage is certainly beginning to set a cracking pace . |
| 4 | Achieving this independence will often have taken many years and will certainly have involved a great deal of effort . |
| 5 | Secondly , it enables us to take account of the knowledge that , as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said , had Saddam Hussein not allowed his greed to overcome his stealth by invading Kuwait last year , he would almost certainly have developed a nuclear weapon by the end of 1993 . |
| 6 | Had he paused before taking up his pen , and listened to the ghost of Jeeves , he would certainly have heard a deprecatory cough and the chilling words : ‘ I would scarcely advocate it , sir . ’ |
| 7 | But she told the boy his offences were so serious that had he been 15 , not 14 , he 'd almost certainly have received a custodial sentence . |
| 8 | Er I think I should certainly have made a better nurse , yes , yes I think I should . |
| 9 | For many people it 's riskier than the next approach and there is no guarantee of results ; but you will certainly have made a powerful impression on others . |
| 10 | Closer collaboration with the IMF , and fresh money , will almost certainly have to await a new government , due in March . |
| 11 | Although difficult , psychometrically , to disentangle from creativity , intelligence , as measured by IQ at least , certainly seems to represent a distinguishable feature of cognitive performance and , to the extent that it is genetically determined , is probably separately inherited . |
| 12 | I could certainly manage to have a half day . |
| 13 | We are not chiropodists , we do n't actually cut away the hard skin because that i is a chiropodist 's job , but we certainly do have a good try at trying to get rid of as much hard skin as we can . |
| 14 | It seems ridiculous for me to try and offer excuses why we were so comprehensively beaten , but the fact that we were well below full strength certainly gave Alborne a ten-goal advantage . |
| 15 | Britain , by contrast , most certainly does have a feudal past . |
| 16 | Spices certainly have come a long way since their early days , when they were a rare commodity and it was considered an honour to receive them as a gift . |