Example sentences of "[adj] to be sure " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television is excellent for this , and Chomsky for long has had that great domain in which to show how governments and the big businesses linked to most television powers are very , very careful to be sure that few views are presented which violate the currently useful consensus . |
| 2 | I think we must be careful to be sure that we 're talking about a particular group in society in a sense , because you 've used words like ‘ graphical ’ and ‘ functions ’ and so forth and that seems to me to be limiting the section of society that we 're talking about — perhaps , what are we talking about , one in ten , one in four , certainly not more than that ? |
| 3 | Although it is impossible to be sure what happened , this latest incident follows a developing pattern of violence in the camps . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The end result is a novel in which it is impossible to be sure of anything . |
| 6 | Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was impossible to be sure whether these were new recruits to the Krishnapur field , perhaps freed from the victorious siege of the feringhees somewhere else on the plain , or simply men who had deserted during the rains returning now to finish the job . |
| 9 | It was impossible to be sure . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the absence of any research findings , it is impossible to be sure about this , let alone quantify it . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a little early to be sure , but there certainly seems to be a pattern to it . |
| 13 | With Nigeria , after only just over two years of the new system , it is still too early to be sure , but in general governments at federal and state level appear to be respecting the guarantees of freedom of expression . |
| 14 | It is too early to be sure whether this new technology will establish itself in our schools but , if you are investigating the potential of video in an institution , you should certainly know what videodisc is capable of . |
| 15 | To date , the Board has had three meetings , while the Committee has only met once , so that it is still too early to be sure how it will operate . |
| 16 | ‘ Given the levels of consumer debt and the continuing rise in unemployment , it is too early to be sure we are seeing a sustainable recovery in consumer spending . |
| 17 | High street sales last month showed their strongest year-on-year growth since May , but Nigel Whittaker , chairman of the the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , who carried out the survey , said : ‘ Given the levels of consumer debt and the continuing rise in unemployment , it is too early to be sure we are seeing a sustainable recovery in consumer spending . ’ |
| 18 | In any case it is not easy to be sure about how an illness will progress or what the outcome of a treatment will be . |
| 19 | It is not easy to be sure of their function or functions . |
| 20 | At the very moment that the weak and young and old were brought from the Sprinkleroom to the railway station , as good as new , so their menfolk completed the appointed term of labour service and ventured forth to claim them , on the ramp , a trifle dishevelled to be sure , but strong and sleek from their regime of hard work and strict diet . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is hard to be sure about the year the photograph was taken , since the monuments of both Pahlavis were pulled down several times , whenever the occasion presented itself to the people . ’ |
| 24 | After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing . |
| 25 | But even there it is hard to be sure that there was no ultimate control from the temples . |
| 26 | Because the hair , too , was black it was hard to be sure that it was not simply matted and dried insects . |
| 27 | It 's so hard to be sure . |
| 28 | At some point ( it is hard to be sure when ) we started to move slowly east . |
| 29 | It was hard to be sure why she was such an unattractive child . |
| 30 | Even after she had switched off the small lamp beside the bed , so that the room was completely dark , it was hard to be sure if she was really seeing something , or if her eyes were just playing tricks . |