Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [prep] [be] sure " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's impossible to be sure what fate befell the mightiest Orc Warlord of all time , but whatever became of him his reputation and memory lives on . |
| 2 | But it 's good to be sure . |
| 3 | And almost one more , I think , although it 's hard to be sure out here . |
| 4 | In true Eko fashion the guitars have bound fingerboards , zero frets and aluminium nuts/string-guides , and although it 's difficult to be sure , the fingerboard material is so dense and dark — almost black — that it could well be that rare and prized commodity , Brazilian , or Rio , rosewood . |
| 5 | It 's difficult to be sure , but I 'd say he 'd been put in the water immediately after death and that he 's been tossed about in shallow water over a rocky bottom ever since . |
| 6 | First of all , I think that it it 's difficult to be sure of this because of the way in which the County Council prepared their the evidence on which I relayed relied and like Mr I did n't come here prepared to talks in detail about the inner northern . |
| 7 | erm it 's difficult to be sure . |
| 8 | After submitting the DC , no further modifications can be made to it , so it is necessary to be sure that no further changes are required . |
| 9 | After submitting the DC , no further modifications may be made to it , so it is necessary to be sure that no further changes are required . |
| 10 | Although it is impossible to be sure what happened , this latest incident follows a developing pattern of violence in the camps . |
| 11 | That is , the common ancestor of these phyla was much simpler in its anatomy than any of them , and the anatomical complexities ( e.g. segmented body plan , skeletal structures , image-forming eyes ) evolved independently in the different phyla , although it is impossible to be sure of this in the absence of an adequate fossil record before about 600 million years ago . |
| 12 | The end result is a novel in which it is impossible to be sure of anything . |
| 13 | Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said . |
| 14 | Obviously it is impossible to be sure who he meant by it , and Freeman , who noticed this long ago , suggested that he was indicating troops levied mainly within the western shires . |
| 15 | In the absence of any research findings , it is impossible to be sure about this , let alone quantify it . |
| 16 | Whereas it is impossible to identify the author of this Gospel , it is possible to be sure of one thing about him . |
| 17 | As we have already discussed , the ancestry of the rose is extremely wide and complicated , and although extraordinary genealogical detective work has been carried out into many family trees , one wonders how it is possible to be sure of the right direction when travelling through the mists and fogs of time , especially during the period before copyright was extended to plants , when secrecy was a safeguard against competition . |
| 18 | Since an investment of time and effort is required it is important to be sure that it will all be worthwhile . |
| 19 | Fourthly , from the outset it is important to be sure that there is agreement with the patient about what is planned . |
| 20 | It is important to be sure that your results are not distorted by such factors . |
| 21 | This option enables you to register the details of a Product , which means that they will be stored permanently and can not be altered thereafter , so it is important to be sure that they are correct before using the option . |
| 22 | The Roman emperors of the later third century AD made very similar coins at a number of mints , and it is difficult to be sure about their correct attribution . |
| 23 | On balance the Tory ideas on the National Health Service and on the state system of education seem preferable to those of Labour , but without being an expert it is difficult to be sure . |
| 24 | It is difficult to be sure , but we might guess that they are becoming increasingly rare . |
| 25 | As every parent knows , children 's eating habits can be unpredictable and when your child is away from home it is difficult to be sure what they are eating . |
| 26 | ‘ Until we know how your son died it is difficult to be sure what is or is not relevant . |
| 27 | It is difficult to identify this character in unsectioned skulls , but it is likely that some degree of airorhynchy is primitive for hominoids , greatly exaggerated in the pongine lineage and modified towards klinorhynchy in hominines , but as my observations lead me to believe that the bonobo is airorhynchous to some degree , it is difficult to be sure of the ancestral hominine character state . |
| 28 | Its magnitude is officially given as below 9 , so that it should be invisible with binoculars ; I have suspected it with × 12 or higher magnification , but it is difficult to be sure , as there are scattered disconnected stars around . |
| 29 | Remains of older persons present more of a problem , and when dealing with earlier populations , it is difficult to be sure that significant age-changes took place at the same time , and that they showed the same group variability , as in modem populations . |
| 30 | It is hard to be sure how much of this dark stuff Sinclair believes — as it is hard to be sure how much Eliot believed of the lore which accompanies the dark stuff of The Waste Land , another London poem . |