Example sentences of "have certainly [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MICHAEL Roberts has certainly gone a long way towards silencing his critics in the past week . |
| 2 | The original meaning , as defined by Collins , has certainly taken a mean whipping before re-release into this streetwise prose but we 're talking the same thing here , are n't we ? |
| 3 | ‘ It has certainly taken a great deal of time for myself and the other ten or so members of our committee . |
| 4 | Similarly , attention was turned to education : the Board of Education Report for 1917–18 declared that the War ‘ has certainly brought a clearer and wider recognition of the value of education , and , while showing the defects and shortcomings of our system , has produced the resolution to improve it ’ . |
| 5 | The death of Froggy Davies has certainly removed a real character from the golf scene . |
| 6 | And his appointment to the position four years ago has certainly opened a whole new world to the former Tees and Hartlepool port authority chief executive . |
| 7 | Drug money has certainly had a baleful impact on Guatemala , but there is nothing particularly new about it . |
| 8 | ‘ But the horse has certainly had a few adventures in the meantime . |
| 9 | It has secured sales and has certainly proved a successful campaign . |
| 10 | The base categories selected for the explanatory variables are old and poor , to try to avoid negative paths ; if we had used the young as the baseline , we would have certainly produced a negative effect of old age on preparedness to break the law , for example . |
| 11 | My employer 's godson looked an earnest , scholarly young man , and one could see many fine qualities in his features ; yet given the topic one wished to raise , one would have certainly preferred a lighter-hearted , even a more frivolous sort of young gentleman . |
| 12 | Oh dear well you 've certainly made a nice job of it here anyway . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’ |
| 14 | Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day . |
| 15 | Although Sherman had not used the keyboard , he had certainly made a combinatorial request . |
| 16 | We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy , when we thought that the earth was the centre of the universe ! |
| 17 | Although older men have certainly experienced a substantial decline in job opportunities , the problems faced by older women should not be underestimated . |
| 18 | Well she 's certainly got a few glands coming up . |
| 19 | It 's certainly come a long way from the upstairs room at the Albert . |
| 20 | He 's certainly had a long talk with me since you left the team — ’ |