Example sentences of "[noun prp] was certainly [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Temple of Diktynna was certainly a celebrated holy place in the classical period ; whether the site was a centre of her worship in the Minoan period is not known , but it seems likely . |
| 2 | This is revealing in its way , for Burke was certainly no democrat . |
| 3 | The West Riding of Yorkshire was certainly a great influence in moulding his mind and manner of the particular artist he became . |
| 4 | However , Dick Crossman was certainly a remarkable man of great intellectual power , with an astonishing capacity for synthesising viewpoints into an effective plan . |
| 5 | Sergeant Troy was certainly an unusual man . |
| 6 | Perfidious was certainly the word for the way it operates . |
| 7 | It proves — if proof were needed — that genius is born , not made , and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was certainly a genius . |
| 8 | The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices . |
| 9 | Vecchi was certainly the key to this whole set-up , and I 'd have given plenty for half-an-hour 's peaceful talk with him . |
| 10 | Erasmus was certainly a man to appreciate that sort of point . |
| 11 | Despite his metrical conservatism ( his strenuous handling of the pentameter is surely surprising and admirable ) and his unfashionable addiction to the grand manner and the high style , Allen Tate was certainly a modernist ; that is what he was thought to be , and it is how he conceived of himself . |
| 12 | There are plenty of candidates : Italy 's Tazio Nuvolari was certainly the outstanding driver before the war , and post-war candidates include Britain 's Jim Clark and Jackie Stewart , and Austria 's Niki Lauda . |
| 13 | Spencer Stuart was certainly the loser when one of their senior consultants in Hong Kong , Paul Cheng , was searching for a director of corporate affairs for overseas trader Inchcape and decided to join them . |
| 14 | The central focus of case management as it was originally conceived in North America was certainly the better co-ordination of services . |
| 15 | Hobbes was certainly an avowed anti-realist . |
| 16 | Fair-haired , but perhaps somewhat slight of build for the rigours of the lower reaches of the Football League , Bernard was certainly a fast and cagey winger , and his talent was recognised when he was selected for the 3rd Division South representative side against the 3rd Division North , in the fifth and final match between them at Selhurst Park on 30 October 1957 . |
| 17 | At the same time , however , domination of the West Saxon kings by Aethelbald was certainly a feature of Aethelbald 's overlordship . |
| 18 | Marc was certainly no fool . |
| 19 | The injury done on that October night in Lambeth was certainly a lurid reminder of the reality of extremist campaigning . |
| 20 | Acton was certainly a minority spokesman and was challenged even by contemporaries in his attitude to female sexuality , but he did express pervasive anxieties . |
| 21 | Thomas was certainly a royal household knight in 1282 , when he took part in the Welsh war . |
| 22 | Chaplin was certainly a humanitarian with strong socialist leanings at a time when to appear even remotely pink was begging for trouble . |
| 23 | Apollinaire was able to write that the Salon d'Automne of 1912 had been persuaded to show the Cubists because of their influence and prestige abroad ; the most important and sensational feature in the Salon was certainly the maison cubiste , for which André Mare and Duchamp-Villon were responsible . |