Sentence examples for could not surely from inspiring English sources

Even those who were more presentable could not, surely, be relied upon to show the same steadiness of purpose, bordering on monomania, that Thatcher found indispensable.

This couldn't, surely, be true.

It couldn't surely have been just the feeling that they were rehearsing for the Oscars.

He couldn't, surely, have been thinking of President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia or one of its oligarchs, Roman Abramovich, sitting in the V.I.P. box?

Since equivalence between English and Chinese versions of the two instruments could not be surely confirmed in the previous studies [ 14, 16], we also conducted some sensitivity analyses by fitting models that included language as well as interactions between language and the subscales as predictors to investigate whether it should be included in the mapping algorithm.

"She couldn't understand — surely there was some way to arrest him?" The program's clearly shocked host, James Naughtie, then said, "That's a fascinating piece of information, Frank".

"The wolves and coyotes howled without letup all night," he writes, "sounding in the hundreds, more than Grainier had ever heard, and maybe other creatures too, owls, eagles — what, exactly, he couldn't guess — surely every single animal with a voice along the peaks and ridges looking down on the Moyea River, as if nothing could ease any of God's beasts.

Precaution should be used, as long term effects were not analysed so far and therefore the risk of cumulative cell damage could not be evaluated surely.

Things surely could not get much worse.

Merrill Lynch, a perennial takeover candidate, surely could not survive on its own.

While it surely could not investigate every individual instance of error, it could address many well-known maladies.