Example sentences of "known [prep] certain " 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 | Unless Blake chooses to make the details public they will never be known for certain . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some other marines are reputed to be mouthbrooders , including Grammas and Jawfish , although little is known for certain about the breeding of many marine fish . |
| 7 | The spread is estimated to be , say , 160 basis points above the gilt but will not be known for certain until issue day . |
| 8 | It is not known for certain if the male and female form a pair bond . |
| 9 | All that is known for certain is that Sigmar eventually put aside his crown and journeyed eastwards , supposedly to Karaz a Karak to meet his old friend Kurgan Ironbeard . |
| 10 | The few pieces that are known for certain to be by Lombardo — in a Doge 's tomb in Venice and two busts in Vienna — show no sign of the naturalist force that the tomb artist gave to Guidarello 's face . |
| 11 | Little is known for certain about his early upbringing or education although we do know that John Howard was criticized for both neglecting him ( because of his many absences ) and for imposing an unduly repressive regime when he was at home . |
| 12 | The exact date is not known for certain , but is either July 12th or 19th 1958 . |
| 13 | No portrait of Bennet is known for certain to be extant . |
| 14 | , Walter ( fl. 1476–1499 ) , church musician and composer , Nothing is known for certain of his family , birth , and education ; there is no compelling reason to concur with speculation that the composer may be identifiable with the boy of this name who , having been born in Salisbury around 15 August 1451 or 1452 , was elected a King 's scholar of Eton College on 8 July 1467 . |
| 15 | ( fl. 1260–1278 ) , cartographic patron , is known for certain only as the author or at least the patron of the late thirteenth-century world map preserved in Hereford Cathedral . |
| 16 | Nothing is known for certain about his parentage and birth , but David Fallows has suggested that he may have been the same man as John Boddenham , born in Oxford in 1422 , chorister and scholar of Winchester College and later scholar and fellow of New College , Oxford . |
| 17 | String theories also lead to infinities , but it is thought they will all cancel out in versions like the heterotic string ( though this is not yet known for certain ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But he 'd never known for certain and still did n't know now . |
| 20 | A full survey of the Braer will be needed before it is known for certain no oil remains , but a survey can not be carried out until the weather is suitable , which could take up to three months . |
| 21 | For example , Academician Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar is better known in certain circles as Igor ‘ Obmanilovich ’ Grabar . |
| 22 | This may be due to the very low population density — below 0.03 per acre ; similar ( slight ) differences between rural and urban areas are well known in certain childhood infectious diseases . |