Example sentences of "not be known " in BNC.

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1 The vicissitudes of climate and harvest continued into the seventeenth century and Pussot goes on to record the contrast between the abundant vintage of 1604 , when the vignerons were ‘ at their wits ’ end for vessels to contain their wine' , and the devastating harvest three years later when the vintage was considered so poor that it ‘ had not been known within the memory of man ’ .
2 What has not been known , until now , is the nature of the mechanism by which this occurs .
3 On 2 February 1799 Parson Woodforde , by then in Norfolk , wrote in his diary : ‘ Such severe weather has not been known for the last sixty years till the present ’ .
4 THE general election in Spain on June 6th will be the first since 1979 in which the winner has not been known in advance .
5 If a Conservative MP X or Y , who has not been known to take ideological stands , approaches a minister or a whip and expresses grave doubts , this is viewed with considerable worry and it is assumed that these objections have been put forward by the MP only after the points have been put to him with equal or greater force in his constituency .
6 Surprisingly , Jean 's existence has not been known until now : Martin was thought to have been the only son of Jean and Marguerite Delalande to have held a court position .
7 It can not be known beforehand , he wrote .
8 Who is really winning will not be known before the free vote on the embryo Bill in the new year .
9 It is a group based on matrilineal descent , which means that one belongs to the group because one 's mother belonged to it and not because of the identity of the father , since this can not be known .
10 Because the polling system is new and complex , the results will not be known for several days , but most observers expect the local party 's candidates to come in far behind the Popular Front and other unofficial groups .
11 Whether this deal had a more serious chance than the 1970 one of being put into force can not be known .
12 They were officially produced , and thus often give information about official events which otherwise would not be known ; the designs and legends they bear provide an unequalled number of images and inscriptions from lost societies .
13 His last name may not be known , but there is a place in Kylie history for the ten year old who managed to sweep her off her feet .
14 However , the election will be desperately close and the final result may not be known until the last constituencies ' counts are declared tomorrow .
15 Although the final result may not not be known until mid-morning , computer predictions indicated Mr Major was on his way back to Downing Street with a small majority .
16 Brain , the team 's only international , has been on the point of resigning both as a player and as the club 's salaried steward , and his decision will not be known until today .
17 The difficulty with defining God is that the theist is perfectly entitled to claim that ‘ God ’ refers to something that can not be known in the way that other things are known .
18 The present number of centenarians will not be known until the publication of the 1991 census .
19 They had to travel with civilian number plates on the Land Rover , with civilian papers , and out of uniform , so that their military connections would not be known .
20 Competition has been healthy rather than intense , and results are that close in some of the classes , that the overall winners will not be known until the Sunday evening .
21 The final result of Sugar 's plan to buy out Amstrad for 30p a share will not be known until this morning , but the board has already accepted defeat .
22 The spread is estimated to be , say , 160 basis points above the gilt but will not be known for certain until issue day .
23 She would not be known now to many at Queen 's Park but that would be to our impoverishment .
24 But if the polls are wrong and it 's a fight to the finish , the verdict may not be known until the West Coast results are in .
25 In our Part-number example , its properties would not be known by other tools that used Part-numbers , except in the unlikely case that such tools made the effort to understand Guide 's context-tables .
26 If therefore , ‘ I ’ can not be known by description , it must be known by acquaintance , and I must be aware of it .
27 Similarly the range of tasks for which the device is required may not be known in the kind of detail which is available from comprehensive task descriptions but the designer will consider the extremes of what it is likely to be used for and the environment in which it will be used , for example designing a machine-tool for use in a factory has different requirements from designing a powered garden tool where the user could be wearing heavy gloves , will not be wearing safety-boots and will not receive any formal training .
28 And the language will not be known as Cobol++ , COOL or anything other than Cobol .
29 In the best traditions of the state 's statistics , a truthful answer will not be known for several years ( ie , when it is of little practical use ) .
30 Since it can not be known as a concept that will realize itself in the future , Sartre argues instead that the totality only produces itself in the moment : ‘ The incarnation as such is at once unrealizable except as totalization of everything and irreducible to a pure abstract unity of that which it totalizes ’ ( II , 58 ) .
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