Example sentences of "are [not/n't] [adv] know " in BNC.

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1 The causes of endometriosis are not completely known , but seem to be linked to an abnormal flow of menstrual blood .
2 VICE-CHANCELLORS are not normally known for their speed of action and this is how it should be : universities are reflective , discursive communities .
3 Christians today are not normally known for their candour about doubt or for their confident ability to resolve it .
4 Exact beginnings are not clearly known but by the mid-thirteenth century Lübeck and Hamburg in Germany were co-operating together and soon other German towns were joining : Lüneburg , Wismar , Stralsund , Soest and Dortmund .
5 While at this end of the neck the Grover adjustable machineheads are smooth , and although budget guitars are not exactly known for their tuning stability , this guitar is reassuringly accurate .
6 Again unlike Madame Loulou , they are not generally known .
7 When food is irradiated , various compounds are formed whose effects are not yet known or understood .
8 The film would then be available for members , but details of the costs are not yet known .
9 The reasons for this high density are not yet known .
10 This trial was only started shortly before I left post and the results are not yet known .
11 The exact boundaries of Barama 's concession are not yet known , but it is believed to contain groups of Warrau , Lokono , Karinya and Akawaio Indians .
12 ‘ The precise numbers of those involved are not yet known , ’ explained chief executive Dr Brian Eyre .
13 Deletions of two distinct regions of 6q have been identified in B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma but the target genes are not yet known .
14 The environmental factors which produce arrested larvae in subtropical zones are not yet known .
15 The long term effects of the injuries are not yet known .
16 Details of ticket prices etc. for the Celebrating Age Festival to be held at the Royal Albert Hall are not yet known ; they will appear in the September Medau News .
17 You may think that there were quite a lot of us , but illegal hare coursers are not well known for verbal or physical reticence .
18 There are a number of examples of effective group and cooperative production organisations in rural Europe , but they are not well known , and are often isolated experiments whose replication has not been attempted or has failed .
19 Miscue analysis entails a systematic record and evaluation of children 's ‘ errors ’ when reading aloud from texts which are not well known to them and which are not at their reading frustration level .
20 As far as the true chemical tonics are concerned , there are several kinds of active substances available , although most of them are not well known .
21 The details are not well known , nor is the general picture clear .
22 The remaining buildings , defences and streets of the town are not well known , much of the information being derived from aerial photographs .
23 Many of Gloucestershire 's smaller streams and rivers are not widely known beyond the county boundaries .
24 Only three respondents expressed reservations about the nature of HMI support and one must suppose that the critiques of HMI practices in the formation of education opinion and the relevance of these criticisms to the concept of ‘ broad and balanced ’ are not widely known .
25 Secondly , the biological takeup and pathways of polonium are not fully known .
26 The necessary techniques are not fully known .
27 Having had the pleasure of meeting Willy De Roos several years ago he made a great impression on me and although little is publicised about his achievements , it is a shame that they are not better known .
28 That her novels are not better known is due largely to her extreme modesty about her literary abilities ; but there is no doubt that her concise , deceptively light prose style , reliance on dialogue to carry the plot , and delight in satirical exaggeration influenced both Firbank and Evelyn Waugh [ q.v. ] , and that she has thus left her mark on the development of the twentieth-century novel .
29 Physical weathering encompasses a range of mechanisms , the relative effectiveness of which are not accurately known but clearly vary significantly as a function of environmental conditions .
30 German losses in the fighting at Ypres are not precisely known , but their total losses on the Western Front from mid-October to 30 November appear to have been not far short of 150,000 .
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