Example sentences of "but [pron] be [adv] certain that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of that I have no doubt , but I am equally certain that it was his own hands which fastened his belt around his neck and fumbled for the window bar . |
| 2 | This figure was repeated by des Forges and Harber , and quoted by Parslow ( 1973 ) , but I am reasonably certain that it was a considerable over-estimate . |
| 3 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 4 | But he 's pretty certain that , without all this hassle , without the music , he 'd have been stuck in prison by now , so he 's thankful for everything which comes his way . |
| 5 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 6 | Nobody knows exactly who built South Luffenham , but it is almost certain that an architect called John Sturges supplied the drawings . |
| 7 | There is no record of John having been apprehended and/or fined at that time , but it is almost certain that he would be dealt with in some way . |
| 8 | As in the case of Sugar , the ORB 's of both of these Squadrons are incomplete regarding ED888 , but it is fairly certain that it completed at least 140 operations . |
| 9 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
| 10 | Swindon Health Authority says Mrs Friel 's notes have since been destroyed , but it 's almost certain that the hormone she was injected with was n't gonadotrophin . |
| 11 | It di we do n't get all the details in the story that Jesus tells of here , but it 's quite certain that it was n't just a case of wandering along a nice path until he found the sheep and then bringing it home . |