Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] [be] sure [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
| 2 | As soon as the stigma is revealed and exposed , you can not be sure that some keen and inquisitive insect wo n't beat you to it and carry in pollen from heaven knows where . |
| 3 | And if in fact this large area of industrial development is not taken up , you can not be sure that the bits that are not taken up will be the least environmentally sensitive . |
| 4 | Remember that you can not be sure whether you or someone else has the virus just by guessing or by appearances . |
| 5 | A further way of introducing some purpose to a day 's sailing is to experiment with different ways of doing things , since you can only be sure that you have found the best way by deliberately trying different ways . |
| 6 | This is because , however often an experiment comes out right , you can never be sure that it will come out right the next time , and so you can never be sure that your hypothesis is right . |
| 7 | This is because , however often an experiment comes out right , you can never be sure that it will come out right the next time , and so you can never be sure that your hypothesis is right . |
| 8 | You see , you can never be sure when it will spawn . |
| 9 | We can eventually be sure that it is correct enough , but never that there is no other equally correct but different translation . |
| 10 | We can not settle the theory of life histories because we can not be sure whether cave organisms put more effort into reproduction than do their relatives at the surface ; nor can we be sure whether they have reduced metabolic rates , which makes it difficult to sort out the question of adaptation . |
| 11 | When Glóin describes the dwarves ' urge to revisit Moria we can not be sure whether this is the prompting of Sauron from outside or dwarvish greed and ambition from inside . |
| 12 | But Gallop had doubts , or rather confesses an ambivalence : ‘ But we can not be sure that this radical notion of ‘ heterosexuality' ’ is not just an alibi for the comforting norm' ( pp. 127 — 8 ) . |
| 13 | We can not be sure that , in choosing a place and time , God was making a point about gender . |
| 14 | But even if we tend to look for the scholarly , non-involved biography of the great man or woman we can not be sure that the work will be beyond criticism . |
| 15 | It seems probable that a mixture of the two factors is involved , but we can not be sure that this is the case and we most certainly can not say which is more important than the other — let alone quantify ( in terms of percentages ) their relative importances . |
| 16 | Until the proper motion of the pulsar is measured , we can not be sure that this star is its optical counterpart , but it seems likely . |
| 17 | We can not be sure that they do so directly for so far no adult eel has been caught in mid-Atlantic . |
| 18 | Although it is repeatedly said that at common law a man must keep his fire ‘ at his peril , ’ research shows that we can not be sure that at any period in the history of the common law a man was absolutely liable for the escape of his fire . |
| 19 | unc is equivalent to unc This law simply says that every behaviour of Q is also possible for p ; thus in observing Q we can not be sure that we are not looking at P. unc induces a natural partial order on occam terms ( factored under the equivalence induced by the domain ) . |
| 20 | Even where the name is recorded early on , however , we can not be sure that we are dealing with the same site , bearing in mind the movement implied above . |
| 21 | We can not be sure that this is a sign of ( p →d ) π bonding in the Si compound ; the delocalization could involve the SiH bonding or anti-bonding levels of e symmetry . |
| 22 | For example , even with the widely used psychological scales , such as those for measuring intelligence or extroversion , we can not be sure that an IQ of 145 points is really greater than one of 144 . |
| 23 | The main trouble with the scheme is that we can not be sure that an apparent X effect is not due to a differential influence of some extraneous factor(s) on the S 1 and S 2 groups . |
| 24 | Notice that , by chance , the N plots tend to be near the top ( ? dry ) end of the field and the K plots are towards the bottom ( ? wet ) end so that we can not be sure that any observed yield difference between N and K is not due to the moisture differential or to natural soil nutrients being washed by rain towards the low end of the field , etc . |
| 25 | The problem is that we can not be sure that there is no hidden cyclic variation in the list sequence that could cause bias . |
| 26 | Likewise , if we sample every fifth fruit tree along a row in an orchard , we can not be sure that the resulting gaps of , say , 20 metres are not coincident with some long-forgotten drainage scheme . |
| 27 | It is groaningly cold , possibly as low as — -225°C ( — -13°F ) , although we can not be sure as Tony 's thermometer is buried under a mound of tackle . |
| 28 | It may be — although we can not be sure because our knowledge is so uneven — that many of the frequently expressed fears of the effects of expanding leisure opportunities on the countryside are exaggerated , that well-publicized cases of overcrowding and ecological damage in the Lake District , in parts of the Derbyshire Peak District or on the Downs in Kent and Sussex are localized and atypical rather than the shape of things to come elsewhere . |
| 29 | They can not be sure that their children will be able to go to school or that they will receive medical treatment throughout their lives . |