Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] sure [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I be sure that I 'm interpreting this correctly . |
| 2 | Even if you are confident that your present arrangements are adequate can you be sure that nothing has been overlooked ? |
| 3 | How can you be sure that your own meters are accurate ? |
| 4 | How can you be sure that you 're providing the right environment for your fish ? |
| 5 | ‘ How could you be sure that he would n't pick her up from there ? |
| 6 | If we conduct an interventive experiment , and inject a drug which results in an animal not performing some task on which it has been trained ‘ correctly ’ ( I wo n't bother putting that word into inverted commas henceforward ; I have already spelled out that what we read as correct in an animal 's behaviour is interpreted by our criteria , not necessarily by its own ) , how can we be sure that what has been blocked or disturbed is the memory rather than the motor or sensory activity on which its expression depends ? |
| 7 | These same questions have remained close to the heart of theological debate ever since : How do we know what we know , and how can we be sure that we really know it ? and , What is the importance of the history recorded in the Bible for Christian faith ? |
| 8 | Williams attempts to show that if we examined the commonplace idea of equality of opportunity thoroughly , we find ourselves carried down a sort of ‘ slippery slope ’ towards insisting that only if everybody has succeeded to the same degree can we be sure that there has been genuine equality of opportunity . |
| 9 | But if it is not by any application of the resolutio-compositive method that we know that all causation is a matter of motion , how can we be sure that it is ? |
| 10 | Second , how can we be sure that it provides for an accurate and reliable estimate of that population ? |
| 11 | Civilization had to be more than a mere confluence of economic interests : ‘ And until we set in order our own crazy economic and financial systems , to say nothing of our philosophy of life , can we be sure that our helping hands to the barbarian and the savage will be any more desirable than the embrace of the leper ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He has been wrong once ; can he be sure that he will not be wrong again ? |