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I thought that, as good as Christian Bale is in The Fighter, Geoffrey Rush was nailed-on for Best Supporting Actor.

Baftas 2011: The King's Speech sweeps the board 2011

Their regular Wednesday slots in Audio's well-appointed environs have seen some killer nights in the past and this week's carousel-fest – with Supercharged promoter himself Krafty Kuts behind the decks – is another nailed-on cert to go down in the club's history.

Clubs picks of the week Patric Baird 2010

TB says that the tories are not nailed-on for the next GE.

Our New Friends in the North 2007

Are we to believe Ken is now the nailed-on favourite for the leadership because, firstly, a bunch of French students recognised him in the street and that just wouldn't happen to the other candidates.

Archive 2005-09-01 Kerron Cross 2005

They include concrete reinforcing, nailed-on exterior dampers, nailed-on wooden rails with hooks for kitchen utensils, a 60 cm hot plate, and many different interior and exterior shapes.

7. Building Instructions 1984

A blackened, scorched, and twisted hut with a roughly nailed-on sheet of plywood where its solitary window had been, but nevertheless a hut.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

The pan had once been half a Federal canteen; its handle was a nailed-on stick.

The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960

A jiffy later, I was on my way up, and another steenth of a jiffy I was at the eaves, and, being a very good climber, I scrambled up the other little ladder that was made out of nailed-on boards, to the red brick chimney.

Shenanigans at Sugar Creek Paul Hutchens

The full-size Best Animated Feature Film is up now, which let's face it is a nailed-on certainty for Toy Story 3.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

When you are a nailed-on, good team in the Premier League, that wouldn't have happened.

Evening Standard - Home 2011