Example sentences of "knows for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Average income in the private sector is probably about three times that in the state sector , but no one knows for sure . |
| 2 | No one knows for sure when the levels become safe . |
| 3 | No one knows for sure . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No-one knows for sure exactly what happened . |
| 6 | He is unsure of the ‘ philosophical ’ position that Novell will take and figures it could be a year before the industry knows for sure . |
| 7 | This is an extravagant way to behave , though it may be justified : no one knows for sure . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ No one knows for sure . |
| 10 | ‘ No one knows for sure . |
| 11 | No one really knows for sure . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | No-one knows for sure the exact age of the tree . |
| 15 | No one knows for certain how much the misuse of alcohol costs society , but it 's a great deal . |
| 16 | It is too early to test the political waters , nobody even knows for certain if the Communist Party has been dissolved or not . |
| 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 | 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 | No-one knows for certain where she was going or what happened that summer of 1983 . |
| 21 | 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 |