Example sentences of "this [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 . |