Sentence examples for it is certainly strange from inspiring English sources

Hanin Zoabi, another Palestinian member of Israel's Knesset, gave a comment to AFP on Israel's Independence Day, saying "it is certainly strange that I don't celebrate Independence Day, the historical event that saw my people expelled.

It is certainly strange for a Kennedy to be considered boring.

It is certainly strange, but the people are almost certain that the regime will breach the truce on the grounds of hitting al-Nusra.

It is certainly strange that the PFA holds this event a month before the season has finished and even more so that the voting slips had an 8 April deadline but actually started coming back at the beginning of March, when some teams still had 10 games to play.

The folk music scene of the 1960's, as David Hajdu argued in the Arts & Leisure section of The New York Times last Sunday, was more eclectic and more deeply engaged in politics than the version presented in this film, and it is certainly strange to see a movie about folk music that makes no allusion to the civil-rights movement or the Vietnam War.

"It's certainly strange, unique, perhaps unprecedented," Fischer said.

Whatever his plan, it's certainly strange that Popovich has hidden Bonner the way he has this year.

It's certainly strange that their very liberation as Jews led to composers' leaving the substance of Judaism behind, at least artistically.

It was certainly strange seeing Pitt and Cate Blanchett so old and it appropriately won awards for makeup and hair, visual effects and production design.

"It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper, as opposed to in a basement with your friends," Ms. Wilson said.

"The incursion began immediately after a recent speech by Hun Sen demanding an end to illegal land grabbing, so it was certainly strange timing," Macgregor said.