Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] certainly [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is revealing in its way , for Burke was certainly no democrat . |
| 2 | Perfidious was certainly the word for the way it operates . |
| 3 | It proves — if proof were needed — that genius is born , not made , and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was certainly a genius . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Erasmus was certainly a man to appreciate that sort of point . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the same time , however , domination of the West Saxon kings by Aethelbald was certainly a feature of Aethelbald 's overlordship . |
| 10 | Marc was certainly no fool . |
| 11 | Acton was certainly a minority spokesman and was challenged even by contemporaries in his attitude to female sexuality , but he did express pervasive anxieties . |