Example sentences of "for [pers pn] [prep] [be] sure " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers . |
| 2 | It is difficult for me to be sure that I 'm objective , so I think I will go by what other people said . |
| 3 | Peering closer he thought he could see a smear roughly the same length on the jacket pocket , but the cloth was too dirty for him to be sure . |
| 4 | Or his own self-deception ; she had unseated him too deeply for him to be sure any longer of the distinction . |
| 5 | If only she and Michael had more time together , time for her feelings to rise close enough to the surface for her to be sure of what they were . |
| 6 | The numbers involved ( in detailed cross-tabulations not reproduced in Appendix I ) were too small for us to be sure about this . |
| 7 | In general , it can often be difficult for us to be sure just what is going on in supposed examples of communication . |