Example sentences of "is certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 2 | One thing is certain : she is human — one of God 's children and equal in His eyes to you . |
| 3 | But it is certain that he , like the Jews of old , knows that , ‘ we are the Adam of our souls ’ ; each has its own opportunities , each its own triumphs , failures and guilts . |
| 4 | One thing is certain , that those of them — priests , prophets or saints — who did so respond , were usually rejected . |
| 5 | It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget . |
| 6 | One thing is certain : further changes in the 1990s will reflect the role of the railway as a business out there in a hard , competitive world . |
| 7 | Pound may be right or wrong about the merits of Binyon 's version , as about the sorts of language that are acceptable in verse translation ; what is certain is that he 's here applying to diction a sort of sliding scale or set of variable standards such as Ford 's principles did n't allow for . |
| 8 | Millions of pounds are at stake and one side is certain to receive a bloody nose . |
| 9 | The escalation in costs is certain to shake the confidence of private investors who have spent £1bn on the project . |
| 10 | The fact that traffic estimates are not being increased to compensate for the rising construction costs is certain to raise fears that the cost of using the tunnel will be forced up by its scheduled opening in June 1993 . |
| 11 | Mr Morton is certain to face a City grilling on the latest cost and traffic estimates when Eurotunnel presents its interim results next Monday . |
| 12 | Labour is certain to retain its commitment to spend more on the health service with a promise to restore the resources to the hospital sector it has lost in real terms since being in office . |
| 13 | What is certain is that the pre-1989 Austin/MG range , all Skodas , Yugos and quite a few Lancias do not , which does not help already depressed resale prices . |
| 14 | Politicians on both sides in Bharatpur agree that if she is chosen as the Janata Dal candidate , she is certain to benefit from a sympathy vote , particularly in the nearby town of Deeg , where the Rajah died close to the extravagant summer palace formerly used by the family during monsoon months . |
| 15 | One thing is certain . |
| 16 | The benchmark now set by the Halifax is certain to influence how other societies respond to last week 's 1-point increase in bank base rates to 15 per cent . |
| 17 | As a close friend of the ANC president , Oliver Tambo — with Mr Mandela the three were seen as the organisation 's ruling ‘ troika ’ — he is certain to become a leading force in South African politics . |
| 18 | A strong Treasury presence is certain , because methods of placing a cost on the environment will be one of the key questions to be decided by the review . |
| 19 | What is certain is that Oakland start their second consecutive World Series as firm favourites , their combination of power ( Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire ) , pitching ( Dave Stewart and Mike Moore ) , defence ( Mike Gallego and Carney Lansford ) and speed commonly seen as too strong for a San Francisco side carrying several half-fit pitchers and vulnerable defensively to Henderson 's base stealing . |
| 20 | Whatever was in Lenin 's mind , it is certain that the great Famine of 1921–2 wiped out any likelihood of peasant resistance . |
| 21 | It is certain that the vice-chancellor in the chair gained the impression from what was said at the meeting that they were forced to elect from a weak field of candidates . |
| 22 | It is certain that the electors discussed the name of Stephen Neill , who had had a far more brilliant academic career as an undergraduate than Michael Ramsey and had lately dazzled the university by his lecturing and preaching power . |
| 23 | It is certain that they discussed the name of the neo-Thomist philosopher Eric Mascall , who succeeded Ramsey at Lincoln . |
| 24 | Nonsense can never be talked with impunity by anyone ; and when governments solemnly talk nonsense in the name of nations , harm is certain to come of it sooner or later . |
| 25 | However , for every successful adoption of a new crop or new variety of crop it is certain that there were many more failed attempts at innovation , for the African physical environment places many difficulties in the path of farmers . |
| 26 | It is certain that even those entrepreneurs and managers who seek to act as professional industrialists have to operate in an environment which is hostile to them , and in which the pursuit of marginal returns is an uphill struggle . |
| 27 | The detailed explanation of what makes us feel alert is not known , but it is certain to be some function of brain activity , and brain activity increases with body temperature . |
| 28 | What is certain ( see Chapter 14 ) is that the fetus can respond to inputs from its mother which show a 24-hour period , whereas the newborn baby — particularly when premature — is much less able to respond to 24-hour rhythms in this new environment . |
| 29 | The European Footballer of the Year , who came on as substitute in Holland 's last qualifier against Wales four weeks ago , has been named in the squad and is certain to start the Group Four match as the Dutch seek the point they need to qualify for the finals . |
| 30 | But already it is certain that the challenges ahead are at least as daunting as anything the Cold War produced . |