Example sentences of "sure [prep] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm all I 'm sure about is that there was this change going on in the rurar econ |
| 2 | One thing you can be sure of is that the panel will know the words of these characters very well ( they will probably be able to prompt you at any given moment should you ‘ dry ’ ) but each and every time the lines are spoken by a new voice they are different in their texture , humour , drama and music . |
| 3 | The only thing you can be sure of is that US interest will always come first . |
| 4 | What we can be sure of is that Tangshan rates as no more than third in the cataclysmic league . |
| 5 | Olson , for instance , does admit at one point that all we can really be sure of is that some academics have made claims for objectivity while the question of assessing those claims is a different matter : |
| 6 | All I am sure of is that in the face of that child , as he lay dead upon the couch , I saw something of my own future . |
| 7 | The present evidence therefore suggests that the universe will probably expand forever , but all we can really be sure of is that even if the universe is going to recollapse , it wo n't do so for at least another ten thousand million years , since it has already been expanding for at least that long . |
| 8 | One thing I am sure of is that would agree that the job of Treasurer of the Bar Council would be quite impossible without the daily support and guidance of the Chief Executive and of his Finance Officer , , and his deputy , . |
| 9 | The first thing we must er be sure of is that the coefficients within the sample are reasonably , er reasonably constant , right . |
| 10 | ‘ I know now to expect the unexpected , but the one thing I can be sure of is that we all have lots of laughs making the show . ’ |
| 11 | What he was sure of was that she 'd disappeared , and that was inconvenient to him . |
| 12 | One thing we were both sure of was that we would return in the near future with no carp tackle , but to fish purely for the cats , that is if we can get booked of course . |
| 13 | What Lupus could be sure of was that invitations would be sent : the attendance-lists of assemblies are evidence of invitations received and obeyed . |
| 14 | Adam Burns was a hard man to get to know , but one thing she was instinctively sure of was that he 'd never back away from something simply because it was dangerous . |