Example sentences of "knows for " in BNC.

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1 No one knows for certain how much the misuse of alcohol costs society , but it 's a great deal .
2 It is too early to test the political waters , nobody even knows for certain if the Communist Party has been dissolved or not .
3 Average income in the private sector is probably about three times that in the state sector , but no one knows for sure .
4 No one knows for sure when the levels become safe .
5 Alexander , God knows for what reason , always spurned them ; now he is gone , Philip can weave fresh webs , gain an ally with a knife at England 's back .
6 No one knows for sure .
7 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 .
8 If Fabre wins the vote in the Federation Executive then he will take over , although no one knows for how long .
9 No-one knows for sure exactly what happened .
10 He is unsure of the ‘ philosophical ’ position that Novell will take and figures it could be a year before the industry knows for sure .
11 USL says it ‘ knows for a fact ’ NET2 contains proprietary AT&T code .
12 This is an extravagant way to behave , though it may be justified : no one knows for sure .
13 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 .
14 ‘ No one knows for sure .
15 ‘ No one knows for sure .
16 No one really knows for sure . ’
17 You 'll not be denying what everybody knows for certain ? "
18 ‘ No one knows for certain , although plenty of theories have been put forward .
19 Which he knows for a fact she does not spend on the child .
20 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 .
21 None of them knows for sure if the controlling shareholder , the French government , will keep him on or , in the Gallic equivalent of the kick upstairs , say thank-you and raise him a grade in the Legion d'Honneur .
22 God knows for what reason — he did n't lack courage .
23 I do think answer for that one er erm I 'm not aware of any paper that 's published presenting that and we came as close as we could to answering that but nobody really knows for sure .
24 No-one knows for sure the exact age of the tree .
25 Ninety may be a good age but who knows for the horse the IRA could n't kill this could only be the start of the search for pastures new .
26 No-one knows for certain where she was going or what happened that summer of 1983 .
27 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 .
28 Well I think the er right honourable gentleman knows for both I and my right honourable friend the chancellor have made the position quite clear , that the extra value added tax is a vital part of our policies to get public borrowing down but that we will be offering help to people who are vulnerable .
29 Yeah , but my old man he 's a , he 's driving he was driving the one of the that 's , that erm , Lieutenant Colonel was in at the time of the , and he , he was in there and he said my old man knows for certain that at that time they were under fire , cos they drove in and picked up two bodies and put them in the back of the jeep all under fire
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