Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] certainly [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was certainly the case when some of Cromwell 's troops , returning from the Battle of Worcester , called in at Wilderhope because they knew that Thomas Smallman , a major in the Royalist army , would still be away . |
| 2 | This was certainly the case in the Dukeries , where , as Waller ( 1983 , p. 291 ) describes it : |
| 3 | This was certainly the case in Belfast , and may be the underlying reason for Labov 's apparent preference for recording in public , non-domestic settings . |
| 4 | This was certainly the case with Mrs S. , the mother of one of my teenage informants , born in rural Jamaica about 1930 , who moved to London about 1960 : I 've never work — I 've never really work when I was back in de West Indies my husband work , I worked when I came over here and I [ took a long time ] to get a job — because I could remember work at de Post Office and I when I pronounce my words you know too [ soft ] dey say dey do n't hunderstand — according to dem dey do n't hunderstand me , my haccent maybe it 's my haccent or what dey don " understan " it or ting an " I feel like I 'm speakin " the same English like over here . |
| 5 | This was certainly the view of Youth Allyah workers like Erich Duchinsky . |
| 6 | This was certainly the view of the Justices ' Clerks ' Society ( 1992 ) , which conducted a comparative survey of the use of custody in the two levels of court for a selected range of offences . |
| 7 | This was certainly the view of a leader in The Times Higher Education Supplement which talked of ‘ the expectation , and for many the hope , that the bipartite structure to be established by the Bill will not endure for long ’ . |
| 8 | Cynical perhaps , but this was certainly the pattern . |
| 9 | This was certainly the conclusion of contemporary intellectuals , almost all of whom thought that the government 's attempts to raise additional troops created more problems than they solved . |
| 10 | This was certainly an underestimate , and altogether between 1962 and 1976 there were records for the breeding season from 35 sites involving a possible 38 pairs ; breeding was proved in 12 sites . |
| 11 | Such was certainly the case that summer day in 1794 , when Henry Poole , with his two poetical companions . |
| 12 | The seventies were certainly a period of great change in attitudes within the Customs & Excise in general , and on the cutters in particular we saw great improvements in many ways with the acquisition of better technical equipment such as highly sophisticated radio communication , and the development of international relations . |
| 13 | Director Jack Seth said : ‘ 1997 was certainly a factor . |
| 14 | May 9 was certainly a day for rallying to the cause . |
| 15 | And that was certainly a start . |
| 16 | That was certainly the philosophy during the times of economic crisis in the early Eighties when the original run of Barnum played to packed houses , and when the National Theatre hit the jackpot with its first musical , Guys And Dolls . |
| 17 | That was certainly the attitude of the ineffable Rosberg , to cite but one superego . |
| 18 | Now that was certainly the views of the President of the Board of Trade before er he er returned to the cabinet er at another time and I 'm not sure if he 's departed from these views but I think they 're worthy of some weight . |
| 19 | That was certainly the case in 1990 when the Chancellor announced the introduction of TESSAs — Tax Exempt Special Savings Accounts . |
| 20 | On that night , that was certainly the case . |
| 21 | That was certainly the case in the 73rd minute when Hughes applied the killer blow . |
| 22 | That was certainly the case with Strike Force Three . |
| 23 | That was certainly the case until the early 1980s , but British miners then started to lose their jobs to imports . |
| 24 | That was certainly the view of the right hon. Gentleman in the debate last week , but it was flatly contradicted by his right hon. and learned Friend the shadow Chancellor on television at the weekend . |
| 25 | That was certainly the impression he gave to Taheb 's gatekeeper , a squat man with one wall-eye , who appraised him pessimistically with the other when he asked for the mistress of the house . |
| 26 | The slaying of Osred in 716 at the age of 19 or 20 was certainly an event of some significance for it broke the monopoly of royal power which the descendants of Aethelfrith had maintained since the accession of Oswald . |