Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv] sure that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not be absolutely sure that there is no mention of Idso in the book because of its other glaring omission — there is no index . |
| 2 | Still , he could not be quite sure that he always did that with his bread . |
| 3 | While no researcher , irrespective of their gender , can ever be totally sure that respondents are being truthful ( specially so in our case ) , the research design compensated for this . |
| 4 | But the fact is no lender can ever be absolutely sure that a guarantor is not being subject to pressure from the principal debtor , and to require him to do more than properly and fairly point out to the guarantor the desirability of obtaining independent advice , and to require the documents to be executed in the presence of a solicitor , is to put upon commercial lenders a burden which would severely handicap the carrying out of what is , after all , an extremely common transaction of everyday occurrence for banks and other commercial lenders . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , but the people here are very sure that voodoo is real . |
| 6 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 7 | And then , I would n't be too sure that the food market of a big city should n't be counted as part of its artistic tradition . |
| 8 | I should n't be too sure that you are indispensable , Karl ! ’ |
| 9 | The crowd were going absolutely mad and the noise was amazing , I believe although I ca n't be too sure that there was a song about the Bradford fire at Valley parade which was quite sick . |
| 10 | And there lay the crux of her unease ; she could n't be absolutely sure that it would n't present some emotional problem . |
| 11 | While the faded old creature who bore the main brunt of night duty would be too dozy to spot anything , Ramsbum was a different matter and Amiss was pretty sure that this was his night on duty . |
| 12 | The best type of evidence comes from modern archaeological excavation , as we can then be reasonably sure that all the finds from a particular area have been recovered and their original locations and relationships recorded . |
| 13 | But can we then be quite sure that at a later stage , when the same kind of performance has been taken out of the service and then out of the church , the signal is unambiguously to ‘ art ’ ? |
| 14 | We did n't know blacks , yet were always sure that we knew their real interests and what they were thinking ! |
| 15 | Maggie had never bothered to resist their reasoning , and she folded her clothes partly from the natural instinct of obedience , and partly because she had never been entirely sure that these external appendages did indeed belong to her , Maggie Petherington , or if perhaps they were loans from the mysterious outer world ; loans that would doubtless be called in some day . |
| 16 | As was explained in Chapter 1 , we could never be quite sure that we had indeed found the correct theory , since theories ca n't be proved . |
| 17 | As she had said to Julie when she 'd phoned her yesterday , even when returning to the office from a short holiday , in the fast-moving world of the City of London you could never be entirely sure that your desk would still be there ! |