Example sentences of "is surely that " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The essence of the patent for you is surely that you believe the heat is there and if it can be scaled up , as you hope it can , that is something that could have manifest benefits to everybody .
2 The answer is surely that they occupied a very special place in the lives of many young middle-class men and especially in the lives of those of them who were budding artists , writers , or intellectuals , who in short were Bohemians .
3 The point is surely that the properties of being good and being yellow are not complex properties as being a horse is , which is ( we may take him to be supposing ) a matter of having a whole lot of simpler properties , such as having a certain sort of head , a certain sort of tail , and so forth .
4 The lesson that emerges from this affair is surely that more than ever before , there is a pressing need for complete openness and accountability when restoration work is undertaken .
5 The answer to all of this is surely that it is not the legal qualities of limited liability or separate personality in themselves that justify intervention , but the concentration of power in private hands that has come about partly as a result of their existence .
6 The conclusion is surely that they do not place great store by our profession or its body .
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