Example sentences of "be [adv] certain that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got the impression that Jean-Claude had been so certain that his relationship with his sister was the most singular she would ever make , that the mere fact of their not living under the same roof would do nothing to erode what they had together . |
| 2 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |
| 3 | He had been so certain that his food could not be tampered with . |
| 4 | She 'd been so certain that , as the years went by , she would at last have broken free of his spell . |
| 5 | She 'd been so certain that he would have contacted her by now . |
| 6 | It may be tiring but keep signalling until you 're absolutely certain that somebody has seen you and is on their way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Would she even have started the relationship if she had not been reasonably certain that in the end he would not leave his wife ? |
| 9 | At least when face-to-face contact is made you are fairly certain that the message gets through . |
| 10 | Paleontologists are now certain that vertebrate bone started as a form of armour , and may not have been ‘ designed ’ to enable sea creatures to walk on land . |
| 11 | How can they be so certain that their judgements are fair and just ? |
| 12 | Moreover , most of us seem to be so certain that a first edition is really a first edition . |
| 13 | The Anglican Henry Dannett provided a further fall-back epistemological basis for vindicating antislavery perceptions of the moral order by arguing that even ‘ if scriptural decisions should appear to contradict our ideas of right and wrong we are still bound to follow those ideas because we can not be so certain that we rightly understand and justly limit those scriptural decisions as we are of our own ideas of right and wrong ’ . |
| 14 | But how could she be so certain that her intention would be transparent to me , and how did I understand her meaning so accurately ? |
| 15 | But how could she be so certain that her intention would be transparent to me , and how did I understand her meaning so accurately ? |
| 16 | Therefore , not only were the more skilled elements of the tasks robotised first to save the wages of the more highly paid skilled labour , but by using robots management could be more certain that a critical weld on a critical component was being done to specification . |
| 17 | Moreover , by choosing an option that has been shown to be the best in terms of quality of life days gained general practitioners would be more certain that they were acting with beneficence ; at present , using simply their ‘ unaided intuitive judgment ’ to make such decisions , they can only hope that this is the case . |
| 18 | The average rejection rate per journal could be used as a weighting factor in assessing the impact of a particular thesis , or indeed paper , but it would be difficult to be totally certain that the comparison criteria had objective validity . |
| 19 | The average rejection rate per journal could be used as a weighting factor in assessing the impact of a particular thesis , or indeed paper , but it would be difficult to be totally certain that the comparison criteria had objective validity . |
| 20 | ‘ On both counts , I can be reasonably certain that death occurred around ten o'clock last night . ’ |
| 21 | The idea is to let the initial sample of urine that is passed wash away any bacteria that are found around the urethral meatus or in the urethra , so that , if any bacteria are grown in the laboratory , it will be reasonably certain that they reflect infection actually inside the bladder or kidneys . |
| 22 | This question needs to be tackled if we are to be reasonably certain that observed variation reflects a speaker 's norm rather than random fluctuation in the data . |
| 23 | This year I 'm nearly certain that there 's been some money , not too much — about five thousand pounds — taken out of the system . |
| 24 | As it seemed to be fairly certain that the children would now not come that way and the main rides need be watched no longer , the Leader went back and called the thin man in . |
| 25 | Although the Irish elk is no longer with us , just from the size of its horns we can be fairly certain that it was polygamous , and that a few males mated with most of the females . |
| 26 | We can be fairly certain that the pulvinar is not homologous with anything in the rat , or indeed in any other group , because its embryonic origins are so distinct ( Rakic 1974 ) . |
| 27 | Others have thought the figure an akroterion , and one can be fairly certain that the idea of making a free-standing statue in motion was first developed in that architectural context . |
| 28 | We can be fairly certain that the lives of most of the people were dominated by the need to provide the means of subsistence and somewhere to shelter . |
| 29 | We can be fairly certain that the lives of most of the people were dominated by the need to provide the means of subsistence and somewhere to shelter . |
| 30 | We can be fairly certain that such a reaction did occur , not merely because it is observable among modern primates , but because it had to exist if young males were , in due course of time , to supplant the fathers , and this , for the purposes of reproduction , they had to do . |