Example sentences of "[pron] be sure " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the group do n't agree , but none of them are sure . |
| 2 | That shows that both the president 's National Party ( NP ) and the ANC intend to be prepared for the first non-racial elections for a constituent assembly ; it is also a clear sign that both of them are sure that they can convince the other parties that the path they have laid down is the one to follow . |
| 3 | A couple of back-row changes and a second-row change were badly needed and I are sure the humiliation against the Wallabies could have been avoided if the selectors had acted on the evidence . |
| 4 | I am sure , however , that it plays an important role . ’ |
| 5 | The person on the SIS switchboard was , I am sure , Liz of old , but when I announced who I was there was no acknowledgement of recognition on her part . |
| 6 | The parish schoolmasters are to make up the lists , and I am sure they will oblige . |
| 7 | ‘ Objections to be heard by the Deputy Lieutenants — all honourable men , I am sure , and well above military age . |
| 8 | I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered . |
| 9 | Negotiations have not finished ; I am sure they are just beginning . |
| 10 | If it was not for the Grand Slam tournaments and the unique place they hold in the game , I am sure we would be losing this vital battle . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’ |
| 12 | I am sure some of the guys in my workshop think I am off my trolley . |
| 13 | Your wheel certainly appears original and of very good quality and I am sure if tuned would spin quite well . |
| 14 | When overseas students do present difficulties — and I am sure many academics will be familiar with distressing or scandalous cases — it is not because they are lacking in industry or intellectual ability . |
| 15 | But ‘ Mrs Belloc Lowndes felt , I am sure , that she needed no blessings from anyone but her Church ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Another 12 hours and I am sure she would have been dead . ’ |
| 18 | I am sure that Arcic has had a new encouragement to continue . ’ |
| 19 | Had I needed a kidney , where the demand is much higher I am sure my guilt factor would be far higher . |
| 20 | Even if lead levels in the atmosphere do not bother you , I am sure you will find the fact that unleaded petrol is 15p cheaper , and that diesel fuel boosts mpg by at least a third , most interesting . |
| 21 | I am sure the warm affinities between Scots and Jews arise out of appreciation of herrings . |
| 22 | If this is it , I am sure I am going out on the highest note possible . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If we can prove this works , ’ Mr Dowding said , ‘ I am sure there are a lot of other farmers who want to give it a try and are just waiting . |
| 24 | ‘ Norman Lamont is a good friend of the NHS and I am sure — or I think I am sure — that he will prove it , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
| 25 | ‘ Norman Lamont is a good friend of the NHS and I am sure — or I think I am sure — that he will prove it , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
| 26 | I am sure I spotted Nico Ladenis preparing some divine demi-glace and Bohringer , the head chef , bore an uncanny resemblance to Michel Guerard , one of France 's three-star Michelin men . |
| 27 | Good farmyard manure is what we all need in towns , and I am sure a farmer could make money marketing his pig , chicken and cow dung . |
| 28 | He had a good knowledge of Scotland , particularly the bagpipes , and I am sure if I had offered to go along to Brigade HQ to fetch my bagpipes he would have had me marching up and down the orchard playing his favourite tunes , much to the consternation of the other Commandos , and possibly the annoyance of the Germans just a short distance away . |
| 29 | I come now to what will be the first of many simplicities which I shall offer to you this afternoon ; for I am sure you already realise from what you know of my speakings and writings — and it will be all the more painfully obvious in half an hour 's time — that I am incurably simpliste . |
| 30 | I am going to attempt such a classification not with the belief that it is either scientific — this University has a Department of Criminology , and I am sure that my attempts would be regarded as very crude in those august circles — nor with the idea that the classification will be exhaustive , but by way of illustration of my essential point that different criminal phenomena , or anti-law-and-order phenomena , require different types of reaction on the part of the rest of society and imply different prognoses . |