The phrase "are surely working" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express confidence or certainty that someone is currently engaged in a task or activity.
Example: "Given their expertise and dedication, they are surely working on a solution to the problem."
Alternatives: "are definitely working" or "are certainly working".
REM are surely a different proposition than a Bon Jovi or an Aerosmith; Public Enemy are surely working on a different level to say, the Temptations.
Knopf says that as hard as her former colleagues are surely working from Washington, the longer they have to conduct the bulk of their job by "remote control," the harder it becomes to do it effectively.
Last month, the prominent aid group Doctors Without Borders described the UN's haphazard response to the tragedy in South Sudan as "shameful". Knopf says that as hard as her former colleagues are surely working from Washington, the longer they have to conduct the bulk of their job by "remote control," the harder it becomes to do it effectively.
Though someone, somewhere, is surely working on it.
Blockbuster's management was surely working hard to make the most strategically savvy moves within the parameters of its bricks-and-mortar retail business when Netflix dealt a fatal blow of innovation by changing the rules of the game.
Mr. Romney was surely working while at home, and his campaign said he would attend debate preparation sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday in Vermont, where he and senior campaign advisers planned to gather at the home of Kerry Healey, a former Massachusetts lieutenant governor.
Although two decades separate the work in the two shows, they are surely the work of a politically conscious artist.
Despite the Fed's undoubted influence, other powerful forces are surely at work.
Both of these factors are surely at work in shaping the observed patterns.
The urge to survive, and other urges also, are surely at work in prompting this non-random source of variation.
They were among 15 players who took part in what was surely a working man's field of dreams: pickup basketball, by appointment only, made through a Web site, indoorhoops.com.
