Example sentences of "be [not/n't] known " 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 Unfortunately , their names are not known .
3 Dai Qing 's whereabouts , like thousands of others arrested since June , are not known .
4 Although the populations and the status of the boto are not known , probably numbers are declining .
5 TICKET touts are not known for their flair for public relations .
6 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 .
7 This table gives the numbers of each moneyer 's coins in each hoard ; an x denotes that these are not known for certain .
8 Hakim was used to transactions where ‘ all parameters are not known , you leave it for the times that things are known ’ , but this business proceeded on a plane that was ‘ intangible ’ .
9 Actual flight numbers are not known at the time of going to press .
10 During the reign of George III a breeder imported a white , horned Indian zebu to experiment by crossing it with Galloway bulls , but the results are not known .
11 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 .
12 As many readers will know , most research in academic institutions and also in industry is concerned with the development of incremental advances ; that is , its essential framework is well established but the details are not known .
13 The exact circumstances concerning the building of the monument are not known .
14 Sexual differences are not known .
15 Rickenbacker , who incidentally celebrate their 60th anniversary this year , are not known for their impetuosity when it comes to new guitar and bass designs .
16 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 .
17 Customs accept that where the optional details are not known , this box can be left blank ( see panel 2 ) .
18 Saliva , tears and urine are not known to be infectious .
19 In favour of the latter explanation is the sudden appearance of the Cretan round tomb in about 3000 BC : they are not known in Crete before that time .
20 The identity of proteins which are up- or downregulated during this period are not known , but several have been separated on two-dimensional gels .
21 Additional support for this model comes from the observations that the ranges in radiogenic isotopic compositions of the Bultfontein Floors metasomites overlap with those of the contemporaneous host group I kimberlites at Kimberley , but contrast strongly with the older , micaceous group II kimberlites of southern Africa ( which are not known to contain zircons ) , implying geochemical differences between the mantle source rocks of the two groups .
22 In contrast , evaporite deposits or permafrost structures are not known from Upper Permian sequences in southern Africa .
23 If at any time the whereabouts of a child on the register are not known , it is the custodian 's specific responsibility to set in hand immediate action to try to trace the child .
24 However , it is not possible to accurately chart the spread of heroin use through a community without recourse to more detailed information about new heroin users who are not known to official agencies- the largest group of heroin users , according to research in the USA .
25 Birth-rates by the number of previous children ( parity ) are not routinely available because the appropriate denominators — the number of women by age and number of previous children — are not known without appropriate questions in the census ( as in 1911 , 1951 , 1961 , and 1971 ) .
26 Studies have found pregnant women have different thermoregulatory and metabolic responses , but their effects on the fetus during exercise are not known .
27 The affiliations of his father are not known , but Thomas was immediately committed to the duke 's ‘ rule and guiding ’ by his mother .
28 Eliot 's own reactions to this meeting are not known , although it must have profoundly embarrassed and unnerved him — not least because further public encounters of that kind were always possible .
29 Protein deposition in the cuticle is related to changes in the amino acids of the blood though the mechanisms of synthesis are not known .
30 The details of his early life are not known , but by 1450 he was apprenticed to Robert Botiller , a goldsmith in London , and by 1458 had become a lowys ( the term used in the records of the Goldsmiths ' Company to describe someone allowed to practise the craft ) .
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