Example sentences of "sure [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Sure enough to the left of the backbone , somewhere about my nipple there was a large round blob .
2 In spite of six weeks of unceasing rain Wade was , by October 1732 , able to write , ‘ I still hope in a fortnight to pass the Coriarick Mountain in my coach ’ , and sure enough by the end of October the road was finished , ‘ made through a part of the country , ’ as he justly claimed in his report to the Treasury , ‘ that was scarcely passable for man or horse … now made as easy and practicable for wheel carriages as any road in the country ’ .
3 We would teach the electronics necessary to devise the tests and how it worked and things like that , and sure enough by the end of the time some of them had built devices , well all sorts of devices .
4 Somehow he kept thinking about the whole affair and he was n't sure anymore about the skull ; should he have moved it ?
5 Descartes refused to be sure even of the reality of the external universe until he had proved a priori to his own satisfaction that he was not dreaming it .
6 We can not be sure either about the speed of this mass Christianization or the means which brought it about .
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