Example sentences of "[be] sure that they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marion , who has worked at the Tour for the past two years and recently took over as Membership Secretary , says : ‘ We are pleased that so many girls want to join our Tour , but we are also anxious to ensure that they have thought through all the consequences and they are sure that they want to be a professional . |
| 2 | The disadvantage of this method is easily demonstrated by asking the students as they finish if they are sure that they have not forgotten something . |
| 3 | Inwardly I had a sneaking admiration for them because they had been sure that they did n't like the Legion and so had acted directly and left . |
| 4 | I am sure that they had a twofold motivation : reluctance to be burdened with a teenager who was n't earning a wage , and the consideration of how much he meant to Cis . |
| 5 | Sir : In your interesting article ( 30 September ) about the sale to the British Library by Lord Norwich ( for a sum left tantalisingly undisclosed ) of Evelyn Waugh 's letters to his late mother , Lady Diana Cooper , the library 's curator of modern literary manuscripts , a Ms Brown , was quoted as follows : I am sure that they did not have a physical affair . |
| 6 | I am sure that they did not consider just talking to London Transport about that . |
| 7 | ‘ I have officers whom I do not need , ’ said Louis XV , ‘ but I am sure that they need me . |
| 8 | I am sure that they need the time to debate the Bill just as much as anyone else . |
| 9 | He gave way generously to many hon. Members — and I am sure that they appreciated it — but I suspect that we were hearing the Minister 's swan song . |
| 10 | Yes , I have at last , and the I 'm sure that they lied in their teeth , they they assured me they had written to me after my second letter in March , er in fact , and they said they were going to send me a photocopy of that , in fact er she wrote me a letter in June , so I do n't believe the other one existed , |
| 11 | No , I 'm sure that they 'd got two little rooms on the ground floor and they were choc-a-block you could hardly get in ! |
| 12 | They have high inflation , I might add to you that it had a far far more damaging effect on poor old pensioners , like myself and I 'm a war pensioner as well , poor old pensioners t to be serious , old people and people of limited means who are affected far more by the cure , the other cure that the Labour party tried that that was high inflation , mind you I 'm sure that they tried it , I think it just happened . |
| 13 | Others , such as Engels ( 1972 ) , have argued that this particular form of domestic oppression exists in order that men may be sure that they pass such property as they possess to their heirs without fear of it going to the sons of other men . |
| 14 | Wherever one finds pillow lavas in sequences of old rocks , one can be sure that they formed under water in the same way as their modern counterparts , and this , amongst other things , helps to establish the sites of ancient oceanic volcanoes and mid-ocean ridges . |
| 15 | We need to be sure that they respect us and trust us . |
| 16 | They seemed not to be , but it was difficult to be sure that they had not simply managed to turn away again in time . |
| 17 | And you can be sure that they provide contact between people , not merely machines . |
| 18 | We can not be sure that they do so directly for so far no adult eel has been caught in mid-Atlantic . |
| 19 | Production staff must be conscious that how they build products may affect its EMC performance ; service engineers , likewise , must be sure that they do not compromise EMC once products are in the field ; the purchasing department must be aware that EMC constraints placed on suppliers may make a component more expensive to buy , but will probably save money when the end product is tested as a whole ; and the marketing and sales department must plan to sell the advantage which EMC brings to a product . |
| 20 | A solicitor well versed in employment law or a freelance personnel expert may be able to help , although you will be charged for their services and you need to be sure that they have a feet-on-the-ground approach in addition to technical competence . |
| 21 | ‘ We have to be sure that they have the right product and that they will be able to sell it . |
| 22 | We shall have to ask , for example , in what conditions classes recognise their interests and how observers can be sure that they have done so . |
| 23 | Security in the context , not just of law and order , but security in terms of can they be sure that they have a job next month , in six months time . |
| 24 | Up and down the canal , as far as my binoculars can reach , the water is white with floating cottony flecks , and we can be sure that they have carpeted the ground to much the same radius in other directions too . |
| 25 | MEN WERE SURE that they knew why women adored Prince Richard . |
| 26 | They heard them talking , and were sure that they knew the voice of the visitor . |
| 27 | For example , we do n't know whether non-human species get depressed and even if we were sure that they did there would still be a lot of doubt about which behaviours signified depression in an animal . |
| 28 | Choose your coach with care ; be sure that they know what they are doing for the theatre and actor of today . |