Example sentences of "[be] not know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Results are not known for at least four days , and to prevent the eggs going off the consignments are allowed through . |
| 2 | TICKET touts are not known for their flair for public relations . |
| 3 | The Democratic Unionist Party is in the curious position of being dominated by evangelicals and hence being more favourable to temperance and sabbatarianism than the Official Unionists and at the same time being better supported than the Officials by working-class loyalists who are not known for their piety and who are prepared to support acts of criminal violence . |
| 4 | This table gives the numbers of each moneyer 's coins in each hoard ; an x denotes that these are not known for certain . |
| 5 | That way , they query nothing and never answer back ; as a result they are not known for their political judgement , but , during the Depression they were jolted into social awareness . |
| 6 | Rickenbacker , who incidentally celebrate their 60th anniversary this year , are not known for their impetuosity when it comes to new guitar and bass designs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This approach has been popular with teaching staff who are not known for being slow to complain about their administrative load . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You are not known for having such a co-operative spirit . ’ |
| 12 | British rowing officials are not known for making sweeping changes and for the time being they say Henley will stay as it is … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We 're not known for our pace . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is not known for certain if the male and female form a pair bond . |
| 20 | The exact date is not known for certain , but is either July 12th or 19th 1958 . |
| 21 | Whether we get linguistic ability from our genes , or by imitating others or just from general intelligence is not known for sure . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Then he remembered Wittisham was one of Emma Pryde 's portégés and that Emma was not known for encouraging entirely vacuous young men . |
| 25 | Charles Dickens was not known for his brevity . |