Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] certainly [art] [noun sg] " 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 And that was certainly a start .
13 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 .
14 That was certainly the attitude of the ineffable Rosberg , to cite but one superego .
15 That was certainly the case in 1990 when the Chancellor announced the introduction of TESSAs — Tax Exempt Special Savings Accounts .
16 On that night , that was certainly the case .
17 That was certainly the case in the 73rd minute when Hughes applied the killer blow .
18 That was certainly the case with Strike Force Three .
19 That was certainly the case until the early 1980s , but British miners then started to lose their jobs to imports .
20 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 .
21 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 .
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