Example sentences of "for sure " in BNC.

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1 There she once sat in some sort of castle , or not , reading , for sure , the literature of Romanticism , and growing up to resemble — in the opinion of the writer 's aunt , the historian C. B. A. Behrens — a character out of Lermontov .
2 ‘ We 'll always need teachers , that 's for sure . ’
3 At thirty-seven she could only say for sure who she was not and she felt that time was running out .
4 ‘ There will be a good crowd at church tomorrow , that is for sure .
5 For sure he takes pains to make Tikhon a human puzzle so that he sha n't in any obvious way speak God 's truth .
6 ‘ If they do work , that is wonderful — but we have no way of knowing for sure .
7 For sure I 'd like to win the car , ’ said Lansink , who finished third behind the Whitaker brothers in August 's European Championships on Optiebeurs Felix .
8 It 's passionately felt , for sure , but perhaps not adequately dramatised .
9 ‘ In such a phase , where final decisions have not been taken , nobody can say anything is for sure , ’ Mr Saeger said .
10 These are the best teams in Wales and as such given the best chance — better , for sure , than Wales — of upsetting the New Zealanders .
11 I know for sure if he had n't been on the scene and it was only Colonel Vaughan and myself , I would most likely have said .
12 For sure then , the post/modern , in dismantling and displacing some of the ideological formations of the Enlightenment , Romanticism , and modernism , finds itself in a paradoxical but illuminating relationship with the early modern .
13 For sure she creates disruption , signifies abnormality , and incites lewdness in others .
14 We are hopeful these figures show the numbers are reducing but it 's hard to say for sure .
15 One thing we knew for sure — beyond here was the unknown , and it looked big .
16 Then he pulled himself together and said , as they mounted the station steps under the concrete canopy : ‘ Now if we were cops inside the covers of a detective story , Mike , we 'd know for sure that Hatton was killed to stop Pertwee getting married today . ’
17 Cowboys may wear them out of necessity and convicts in the USA may have been given them as part of their uniform , but one thing 's for sure , whatever the reason , most people simply would n't live without them .
18 Although it would be a tough year for sure , revenue was not dropping anything like as much as the bookings percentage .
19 They were exploited , for sure , but their exploits were myth incarnate .
20 For sure , The Beastie Boys would have !
21 The songs on Lovesexy are fullbodied , throbbing , for sure , but the unnatural excitation of tissue , the swelling and the morbid flush that characterize Prince 's peaks , are nowhere to be seen .
22 Average income in the private sector is probably about three times that in the state sector , but no one knows for sure .
23 They may be crowded up against the window of the tour bus or milling together on the pavement , but one thing is for sure — they 're taking snapshots .
24 ‘ He 'll not sell up and go into a Home , that 's for sure , ’ said his Dad .
25 The trouble was that nobody could quite remember where it was exactly , but everybody knew it was around there somewhere , that 's for sure .
26 For sure dat explains it all ! ’
27 We ai n't gon na have no limey runnin' Europe from Detroit , that 's for sure .
28 ‘ Do n't know for sure yet , but there wo n't be any European corporate jobs left after we centralise everything in Detroit .
29 ‘ Well , he ai n't comin' here to Detroit , that 's for sure .
30 International business man , that 's for sure .
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