Example sentences of "certainly [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This certainly offers a fruitful way to see , say , the impact of early rock 'n' roll which one intuitively senses as ‘ radical ’ , yet which from the start , and increasingly as time went by , made use of traditional elements of musical and lyric form and content , and subsisted within the nexus of capitalist production processes . |
| 2 | Laurent-Perrier certainly made a splendid effort towards Wild Game Conservation when they started their £5,000 awards in England in 1984 . |
| 3 | He certainly made a great entrance : I played a slow air , a favourite of mine , Cuaist Nam Fir-Cun Og ( The Flight of the Eaglets ) . |
| 4 | He certainly made a few enemies . |
| 5 | It certainly made a big difference . |
| 6 | The shock caused by Balfour 's going thus did something to steady the party and it certainly produced a real determination to settle the affairs of the party with less friction than had been fashionable of late . |
| 7 | He certainly fought a stout rearguard action . |
| 8 | Manager Dick Graham brought Jackie Bannister to Selhurst Park on a free transfer from Scunthorpe United in July 1965 , having assessed this combative wing-half or full-back at close quarters when the pair were at The Hawthorns in the early 1960s , and Jackie certainly became a valued member of Palace 's 2nd Division defences under Mr Graham in the second half of that decade , missing only one game in two seasons between August 1966 and May 1968 . |
| 9 | They would certainly make a safer choice for a first aeroplane after the club trike than does the twitchy taildragging Silvaire and its lookalike cousins . |
| 10 | That would certainly make a welcome change , since the weakness of trade over the last year or so has clearly deepened the recession . |
| 11 | It 's certainly come a long way from the upstairs room at the Albert . |
| 12 | We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy , when we thought that the earth was the centre of the universe ! |
| 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 | Most industrialised governments are believed to be so alarmed by new reports demonstrating the rapid destruction of the ozone layer that they will almost certainly approve a new target of 1996 . |
| 16 | The author also quotes , with apparent approval , Cyril Connolly 's remark that ‘ those with an irrational fear of life become publishers , ’ which certainly adds a new dimension to Freud . |
| 17 | Food intolerance may certainly aggravate a common bowel disorder called irritable bowel syndrome . |
| 18 | It should be noted , moreover , that the ability of the present Call-slip analysis exercise to determine the date of publication of a much greater proportion of items issued ( 97% as opposed to 65% on each of the two earlier occasions ) means that its results are much more accurate , and that the higher incidence of pre-1900 publications recorded by the earlier surveys probably can , therefore , be attributed , in large measure , not to any radically different pattern of reading at these times , but to the fact that the numerous undated call-slips occurring then almost certainly contained a high proportion which related to more modern publications . |
| 19 | We certainly expect a big uplift in sales through the group as a result . ’ |
| 20 | We are looking at options which will almost certainly include a Nasdaq listing . |
| 21 | It wo n't buy the rest of your life , but it 'll certainly fund a good time . |
| 22 | Arkwright certainly picked a great spot for his country residence : south facing and above a lazy curve in the river , with the high cliff opposite guaranteeing more than a modicum of privacy , and only five minutes from work ! |
| 23 | Glasgow certainly needs a modern landmark — something to deflect the eye from the miserable tower blocks of the 1960s . |
| 24 | The antelope 's coat certainly has a bluish tinge , though there is nothing particularly cow-like in its rather beautiful appearance . |
| 25 | The top of the range , £15,290 convertible certainly has a likeable side , as our road test has already made plain . |
| 26 | Third , though the agora certainly has a religious aspect — Kleisthenes probably purified it and banned burials there when he gave it new political importance — it also , and equally certainly , was a place where ordinary commerce was carried on , thus Demosthenes ( xviii.169 ) mentions the wicker booths set up for trading there . |
| 27 | ‘ He certainly has a raffish look . ’ |
| 28 | This certainly has a biological basis as well as a social one . |
| 29 | Despite all the protest that his Salvation Front was too closely linked with the old communists , President Iliescu now almost certainly has a clear mandate to govern Romania . |
| 30 | Although it certainly has a romantic streak , our subject is a serious academic discipline ; it is not an intellectualized transcendental meditation in which exotic beliefs are wrenched crudely from their setting to be appropriated in the selfish pursuit of some second-hand , simulated , and ultimately spurious nirvana . |