Sentence examples for was pretty certain to from inspiring English sources

BARACK OBAMA'S choice of Jon Huntsman as his ambassador to China, announced last week, was pretty certain to be followed swiftly by his pick for Japan.

I guess TechCrunch could be suspending U.S. operations on July 24, too, but we wouldn't be posting that unless we thought it was pretty certain to be happening.

Boehner is pretty certain to strike out here, but you can't blame the man for liking his chances.

They are not going to take his case to court unless it's pretty certain to succeed.

They go to projects that are pretty certain to work," said Geller, who manages the books division of Curtis Brown.

The older voter who hates the EU is pretty certain to express their feelings at the ballot box in June.

Name withheld A. Relax: you are pretty certain to make the connection, because when you leave the US there is no Customs and Border Protection check.

(See 12.38pm). It is a slightly false argument as parliament is pretty certain to accept any extension that means there will not be a no-deal Brexit.

"People who talk a hell of a lot about writing, and especially those who talk about exquisite perceptions, style, or, in general 'the esthetic' … are pretty certain to fail if they try to be editors".

Tesco is pretty certain to deliver these 5% reductions, having trumpeted such actions as key to obesity reduction, one of its three Tesco and Society corporate responsibility commitments since 2013.

(Readers of the October column in this series may wonder about his pronouncement that "Greece will default in the next few weeks". To that, he said: "Greece is being kept on life support. It's pretty certain to default. The question is timing").