Example sentences of "[be] not know for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This table gives the numbers of each moneyer 's coins in each hoard ; an x denotes that these are not known for certain . |
| 2 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 3 | Whether we get linguistic ability from our genes , or by imitating others or just from general intelligence is not known for sure . |
| 4 | Exactly what happened is not known for certain , but the most likely scenario is that Crabb was intercepted by Russian frogmen and taken on board the Ordzhonikidze through a ‘ wet chamber ’ . |
| 5 | Even if the exact number of rounds in the game is not known for certain , in real life it is often possible to make a statistical guess as to how much longer the game is likely to last . |
| 6 | It is not known for certain at what moment of time afterwards she looked at her fingers , in order to gaze admiringly at the ring . |
| 7 | It is not known for certain if the male and female form a pair bond . |
| 8 | The exact date is not known for certain , but is either July 12th or 19th 1958 . |
| 9 | Although it is not known for certain whether Yazid was present at Karbala , he is cast by the Shiites as the author of the incident , and the name is to this day a favourite Shiite epithet for a Sunni adversary — it was used in this sense during the 1980s war by the Tehran leadership when referring to that in Baghdad . |