Example sentences of "certainly [not/n't] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This performance was a rich mixture of styles : perhaps not one to put on record , but certainly not to be missed live . |
| 2 | The idea is a relatively new one to engineering but certainly not to planet earth : collagen , keratin , chitin and cellulose are some of nature 's strong fibres and make possible everything from bones and lobster carapaces to giant sequoias . |
| 3 | He had practically made up his mind that he would never go back — certainly not to Moyalla and probably not to teaching . |
| 4 | A journey on one of the steam trains is certainly not to be missed ! |
| 5 | I thought to myself , ‘ Jimmy Dickinson does n't go abroad and certainly not to the States , so if I make a good job of it at Walton Heath I might be caddying for Sandy full-time in the future . ’ |
| 6 | Certainly not to a man like Pete or to Henry . |
| 7 | She was n't going to give her smiles away — not till she 'd fixed her position , and certainly not to an ugly pock-marked thing like Miss Phoebe with her beaky nose and whiskery chin … though she did have nice eyes . |
| 8 | It is certainly not to be accounted for simply by the clerical abuses of the time . |
| 9 | They may attribute unattractive and negatively valued characteristics to their enemies or neighbours , but most certainly not to themselves . |
| 10 | His long reflection on the divine ordering of the universe did not extend to principles of political organization , and certainly not to opposition to the established order . |
| 11 | Alternating periods of flood and drought are not to the liking of any plant , certainly not to roses . |
| 12 | Such a thing is certainly not to be found on this earth ; yet those who pick to pieces the open texture or verbal infelicities of an international Convention rarely pause to consider how , when legislation prepared in a single legal system is generally so verbose , obscure , and generally badly drafted , one can reasonably expect more of the product of many hands drawn from widely differing legal systems with different cultures , legal structures , and methods of legal reasoning and decision-making , entailing maximum flexibility , co-operation , and compromise . |
| 13 | I would never again speak of sin , certainly not to Lili , for one of the messages I had gathered from her speech was that it would bore her . |
| 14 | ‘ Bless my soul , they are certainly not to be lightly regarded , these creatures . ’ |
| 15 | The deposit belonged to him personally , not to the T. and T. shipping company , and certainly not to the Ingard group . |
| 16 | About his wife she had no reservations : tough and vital , the life force flowed through her even as the cancer — which she would acknowledge to no one , and certainly not to her husband — extended its grip on her . |
| 17 | But no matter , and who am I to complain , certainly not to Jan , the lady of the maggots , who has been up since four and already whisked through acres of office carpet , scads of bins and oceans of scummy cups . |
| 18 | Certainly not to the same degree of hurt , but a taste of what rejection was like at first hand . |
| 19 | Many of the researchers are studying developments in ‘ high technology ’ Industries — but certainly not to the exclusion of other industries . |
| 20 | Hoteliers constantly argue that Muzak encourages relaxation but it is certainly not to everyone 's taste . |
| 21 | Certainly not to me . |
| 22 | I 'm gon na suggest to you that er if w if we 're going to think about channels of communication then we could arguably divide up inter-personal communication to three broad sets of channels so it will will be familiar to some students already I think , er but not certainly not to many second years . |
| 23 | This man of all men was n't likely to answer to a mere twenty-year-old — and certainly not to one he held in such contempt . |
| 24 | And certainly not to you , she added under her breath . |
| 25 | Certainly not to Zoe . |