Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] [not/n't] sure that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I enjoyed that bit of his speech best of all , although I am not sure that that was what the right hon. Gentleman intended . |
| 2 | I agree that I have been reinforced ( although I 'm not sure that I learnt how to make coffee by operant conditioning — I suspect I copied someone , or was told how to do it — but that is a separate issue ) . |
| 3 | detect a bit of a question mark and the end of er sorry er er doubting tone as to in my voice that I 'm not sure that that would be so in the decade ahead . |
| 4 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 5 | An open space between two darkened structures — warehouses , Alexei thought , although he was not sure that their route had taken them across that quarter of the city — appeared out of the mist to their left like the mouth of an open tomb , and Jotan caught Alexei 's arm and indicated it . |
| 6 | ‘ I have the authority necessary from the board to build this company over , ’ he said , adding that he was not sure that breaking the company up would be the right approach . |
| 7 | ‘ I have the authority necessary from the board to build this company over , ’ he said , adding that he was not sure that breaking the company up would be the right approach . |
| 8 | The prime minister answered that he was not sure that he would ‘ put it that way ’ . |
| 9 | The tracks vary in their individual interest , and I am not sure that there is enough variety in the textures to warrant playing the CD from beginning to end . |
| 10 | And I find it hard to believe , because first of all you have to understand the word ‘ intelligent ’ in the way he meant it and I 'm not sure that I know what he meant ; and there are any number of ways of being intelligent . |
| 11 | ‘ I do think that men and women have different sorts of friendship and I 'm not sure that wives can ever understand male friendships . |
| 12 | But what I did say , and he said he could do it , was to divide up , to compare us , that he could divide up the profitability and I 'm not sure that , you know i in terms of |
| 13 | It 's er it is n't it is n't everyday language , and I 'm not sure that it helps us express what we really want to say . |
| 14 | ‘ My younger sister is the only person who could possibly take the girls if we died , and I 'm not sure that she would really want them . |
| 15 | Mother had told Mrs Archer at Baldersdale school that it was tonsillitis and I 'm not sure that she ever did find out the reality of it . |
| 16 | And I 'm not sure that we can identify that . |
| 17 | I felt like kissing the dinghy , and I 'm not sure that I did n't put my lips to the rough friendly fabric of her snub nose . |
| 18 | Oxford and Cambridge are pretty close with their figures , so I do n't know the answer , and I 'm not sure that it matters . |
| 19 | And I 'm not sure that personally I 'm put my hands up and say that I 'd understand all the issues but I understand some of the basic principles and I 'm beginning to understand er some of the complexities of a a planning issue like this . |
| 20 | Sometimes I think both genes are used , sometimes only one , not the other , and I 'm not sure that anybody knows exactly how , how and why that works out but erm |
| 21 | Yes Chairman , I am following in Major 's shoes , I do n't reckon I know a great deal about it yet , and I 'm not sure that this erm , er , advisory er , committee is yet actually on the go , but I will go into this . |
| 22 | ‘ My parents are the ones who need to be convinced , and I 'm not sure that 's going to be an easy task . ’ |
| 23 | erm We park appallingly carelessly , some of us do it intentionally very often , some of us do it innocently or probably ignorantly , and perhaps to be fined on the spot would be a way of saving an awful lot of paperwork , an awful lot of time , and perhaps reminding people that they should n't be doing these things although I 'm always slightly worried , this is in a sense another problem , I 'm slightly worried by , by the inequity that six pounds or whatever it is will mean a lot to one person and hardly anything at all to another , and you do see some cars mis-parking again and again , and I 'm not sure that erm the instant penalty would make much difference there . |
| 24 | And I 'm not sure that the children necessarily want their parents quite so involved in their school life by the time they , they get to that age , they 're , rather value their independence in , in many ways . |
| 25 | And I think what we 're looking for is a kind of situation where everyone can play their proper part in the decision-making , but allow the person with the energy and drive to play their part as well in giving a lead , and I 'm not sure that 's such a bad thing . |
| 26 | This is quite a specific issue , and I 'm not sure that this committee on this day is in the best position to discuss it in detail . |
| 27 | If I was a Christian at all — and I was n't sure that I was — I thought I was probably a custard Christian . |
| 28 | And I could willingly kiss him , if I was n't sure that would shock him to death ! ’ |
| 29 | It would embarrass him and she was n't sure that Lady Agatha would receive her . |
| 30 | She had never liked Mona Rigby — who would n't have been chosen twice for the coveted role if the staff had known as much about her as did Brenda — and she was n't sure that she really liked Miss Foley . |