Example sentences of "one know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing , how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected ? |
| 2 | Of course , rumours abounded about what went on behind the barriers which prevented the common people from entering the districts where the Communist élite lived , but no one knew for sure . |
| 3 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 4 | He would lie here , no one knew for how long , until the tribe had painstakingly amassed the financial and ritual wherewithal necessary to launch a dead king 's soul back to the stars . |
| 5 | All that was important of human knowledge had been handed down — no one knew for certain whence old science had come — and only in interpretation was there ever anything which was novel or innovative . |
| 6 | When my father arrived in Abyssinia in mid-December 1909 to take up his post as British Minister in charge of the Legation , the Emperor Menelik , the greatest ruler the country had known for centuries , was reported to be still alive ; but no one knew for certain , and all men asked what would happen when he died . |
| 7 | No one knew for certain what volume of water was pent up , but the old mine must have been full to the random of the 17th Century Cobblers Level . |
| 8 | No one knows for certain how much the misuse of alcohol costs society , but it 's a great deal . |
| 9 | Average income in the private sector is probably about three times that in the state sector , but no one knows for sure . |
| 10 | No one knows for sure when the levels become safe . |
| 11 | No one knows for sure . |
| 12 | That may be the constitutional position — though no one knows for sure as the situation has not arisen since Henry VIII created the C of E for this purpose — but it is certainly not one which is acceptable . |
| 13 | If Fabre wins the vote in the Federation Executive then he will take over , although no one knows for how long . |
| 14 | This is an extravagant way to behave , though it may be justified : no one knows for sure . |
| 15 | The number of destitute people with serious mental disorder now living more or less permanently in this way is reckoned to be 60–90,000 , but no one knows for sure : a large number of people but still a quite small proportion of the total number of people in our society in need of a home . |
| 16 | ‘ No one knows for sure . |
| 17 | ‘ No one knows for sure . |
| 18 | ‘ No one knows for certain , although plenty of theories have been put forward . |
| 19 | Half a million different laws ( although no one knows for certain how many ) have insured that the legal system is rigged , keeping the cost of formality far beyond the reach of the average small Peruvain entrepreneur . |
| 20 | With troops deployed in Bosnia for a year already , and no one knows for how much longer , the defence secretary Malcolm Rifkind is openly arguing against more cuts unless commitments like this are cut as well . |