Example sentences of "not know for " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Rickenbacker , who incidentally celebrate their 60th anniversary this year , are not known for their impetuosity when it comes to new guitar and bass designs . |
| 33 | In the familiar world in which we live , ducklings are not known for their propensity for attacking farmers ; they are classed among the victims of the killing process . |
| 34 | It is not known for certain if the male and female form a pair bond . |
| 35 | Tough it may be , but Washington is one who defied the odds to achieve world status in a sport not known for its liberal representation of blacks . |
| 36 | Very soon he will be known as one of the greatest seducers of our times and in a town — Los Angeles — not known for the lack of competition . |
| 37 | Mr Ueberroth may have spoken a bit too bluntly for his own good — and was not known for his sensitivity in dealing with the urban poor . |
| 38 | Straight humeral shaft and convex deltoid plane : not known for Graecopithecus but present in Dryopithecus . |
| 39 | The exact date is not known for certain , but is either July 12th or 19th 1958 . |
| 40 | Exactly how it happened we still do not known for sure but you can find examples of the kind of organisms it produced in almost any patch of fresh water . |
| 41 | If you are contemplating having sex with someone who you have not known for very long , and do not know much about , you are strongly advised to use a condom during intercourse . |
| 42 | This approach has been popular with teaching staff who are not known for being slow to complain about their administrative load . |
| 43 | Then he remembered Wittisham was one of Emma Pryde 's portégés and that Emma was not known for encouraging entirely vacuous young men . |
| 44 | Three million unemployed , homelessness and poverty on a scale not known for a generation . |
| 45 | Whether we get linguistic ability from our genes , or by imitating others or just from general intelligence is not known for sure . |
| 46 | Homer Scott was delighted when he saw the building for the first time at the May Day meeting and even the course bookmakers who are not known for lavishing praise on anything , are impressed by what has been built . |
| 47 | Mind you , not known for their generous pay awards , these Councils according to the government are a main obstacle to economic hope and prosperity in Britain . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | With the auction taking place in the hangar nearest the airfield flightline , the auctioneer fought a verbal battle at times with the public address system on the airfield and the constant opening and closing of the hangar doors , the latter not known for their quietness ! |
| 50 | But armed forces are not known for being bastions of sentiment and it is definitely true that had the SAAF really needed to replace both types , it would have found a way to do so . |
| 51 | You are not known for having such a co-operative spirit . ’ |
| 52 | We 're not known for our pace . |
| 53 | British rowing officials are not known for making sweeping changes and for the time being they say Henley will stay as it is … |
| 54 | Barnsley are not known for their fancy football or flair , but they 're well drilled and organised and Oxford just could n't find a way through . |
| 55 | Charles Dickens was not known for his brevity . |
| 56 | The players , not known for their tolerance of youth , have shown him , on occasion , bared teeth . |