Sentence examples for surely could not from inspiring English sources

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.

Yet Hooper surely could not have foreseen the tempest into which she was stepping with the Doomadgee case.

It surely could not have been for any strains picked up during the less than rigorous routine.

Attitudes about race could be pivotal in a way they almost surely could not have been in 2008, when we couldn't stop talking about it.

Their happiness surely couldn't last.

He surely couldn't catnap under his seat.

All a bit soporific, which surely couldn't be right.

One dance surely couldn't make sense of all that.

(The leadership may distrust him, but surely couldn't, in such circumstances, keep him out of cabinet).