Example sentences of "[be] sure that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure that hon. Members have talked to constituents , many of them young women with children , who say bitterly that they feel trapped in their environment and dare not go out at night , even to have a cup of tea with a friend . |
| 2 | Whatever political differences exist on policy , I am sure that hon. Members on both sides of the House will wish to offer them every support in that endeavour . |
| 3 | I am sure that hon. Members need no convincing by me that teenagers must be removed from the penal system . |
| 4 | I am sure that hon. Members will have noticed that in the recent announcement of environmentally sensitive areas — especially those in the Lake district , Exmoor and Dartmoor — I have clearly taken that view , with regard to not only hillsides but moorland areas . |
| 5 | I am sure that hon. Members would prefer to hear a more considered account tomorrow . |
| 6 | I am sure that hon. Members will not mind if I put one or two statistics on the record . |
| 7 | I 'm sure that young children like stories about giants so much because that 's what adults seem like to them . |
| 8 | Somehow , I 'm sure that wild animals have a sixth sense that tells them they 're safe , even in the presence of their arch-enemy , man . |
| 9 | How , for instance , can we be sure that annual budgets by the Chancellor of the Exchequer are related to our true economic circumstances ? |
| 10 | A hotel receptionist should be sure that prospective guests are aged 18 or more , since otherwise if the bill remains unpaid a court action if brought to recover the debt will fail because the contract of booking is unenforceable . |
| 11 | I can be sure that real teachers would have avoided a number of APU 's blunders . |
| 12 | I can be sure that real teachers would have avoided a number of APU 's blunders . |
| 13 | He needed to be sure that current arrangements were working as well as possible before the Government 's review next year of whether competition in basic telecoms should be extended beyond the two companies . |
| 14 | Remains of older persons present more of a problem , and when dealing with earlier populations , it is difficult to be sure that significant age-changes took place at the same time , and that they showed the same group variability , as in modem populations . |
| 15 | This is not the occasion to discuss the process by which segmentally organized societies developed into vertically structured ones , though it is sure that significant clues will be found in the elaboration of the material symbols of emulation and status embodied in precious substances . |
| 16 | Mr Maclean said the use of £2.3 million of taxpayers ' money in buying Orford Ness seemed a lot , but he was sure that future historians would regard it as money well spent . |
| 17 | I did not speak to Harold Wilson or to Lady Falkender about the matter , since I was sure that strenuous efforts would be made to prevent disclosure , but I was equally sure from Denis Hamilton 's attitude that this would not succeed and it was therefore better not to try . |
| 18 | The physicists who felt they had left their successors with little more to do than to clean up a few minor problems expressed the same mood as August Schleicher , who was sure that ancient Aryans had talked exactly the putative language which he had reconstructed for them . |