Example sentences of "not known [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since h(n) is not known during the search we can try to estimate it in some way . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Because of the impact of Socialism in power in Britain and of the welfare state during Attlee 's post-war government , Maurice attained a celebrity not known since his death eighty years before . |
| 4 | Thereupon , Anselm went off to spend the summer months in the hill village of Liberi above Capua , and here he found a renewed peace of mind and spirit which he had not known since his days as prior of Bec . |
| 5 | WHEN Stuart Surridge led Surrey to the County Championship in 1952 , his first season of captaincy , Wisden , in choosing him alongside Tom Graveney , Fred Trueman , David Sheppard and Harold Gimblett as a Cricketer of the year , captured his salient qualities in a sentence : ‘ Though not always free from criticism as regards tactics and the manner in which he handled the bowling , he brought to Surrey a spirit of consistent enterprise and aggression such as they had not known since the days of P. G. H. Fender 's captaincy 20-odd years previously . ’ |
| 6 | Now , the Northern Empire is lost , and the Black Land is in a chaos it has not known since Nebphetyre Amosis , two hundred years ago ! ’ |
| 7 | Eileen 's death had made the lot of them aware of depths in themselves and in each other that they had not known of before . |
| 8 | But other members said that they had not known of plans to attack Mr Reagan . |
| 9 | Until the past decade , however , the vast majority of specialists in the period had not known of her existence . |
| 10 | We discussed Sophie 's affairs : I discovered , in the process , some interesting sexual practices I had not known of before which she did not indulge in with her lovers , in order , as she put it , ‘ to keep something for Jack ’ . |
| 11 | Wrapped up in his own debauchery he had not known of her plight until recently . |
| 12 | He thought she had not known of his feelings , until the night of the receiving of new candidates into the Fiana , at which Fergus , as its head , must preside . |
| 13 | Like their Western counterparts , the Israeli government was evidently taken by surprise by the invasion of Kuwait and questions were raised later in the month as to why Mossad ( the country 's intelligence service ) had not known of Saddam 's intentions . |
| 14 | A FATAL accident inquiry at Ayr into the deaths of two schoolboy friends who drowned in a flooded quarry yesterday heard that the boys ’ parents had not known of the dangers . |
| 15 | Allan McKay 's father , a gas engineer , Ian McKay , 40 , told Mrs Paton that at the time his son disappeared he had not known of the existence of the quarry . |
| 16 | Further , the employment of an agent may be such as to give him an authority to contract on behalf of his principal generally with regard to a wider or narrower class of affairs ; and as between the principal and third parties such authority can not be limited by restrictions imposed by the principal , but not known to third parties . |
| 17 | The council 's environmental health department subsequently stated that ‘ the trapping and transport of foxes within the city is not known to this department ’ . |
| 18 | There are five of these general arrest conditions : ( a ) the name of the person is not known to the police officer and he or she can not ‘ readily ascertain ’ it . |
| 19 | The extreme form of participant observation — what I have called the ‘ complete participant ’ — is , in fact , typified by the spy , who is believed by members of the group to be a genuine member of that group and is not known to be an observer at all . |
| 20 | I have consulted the most celebrated authors on comparative anatomy , but do not find any such structures of those parts described ; and as it is not known to you , I may presume that it has not been before taken notice of . |
| 21 | This curious truth about language is that it is always perfect : when a user of the language fails to express himself clearly it is because some existing linguistic resource is not known to him , not because such a resource does not exist . |
| 22 | In return , they often experience a depth of love not known to the non-celibate . |
| 23 | Why so many of the other directors chose to sell at the same time is not known to me . |
| 24 | In 1990 , 11 per cent of female homicide victims were not known to their attackers , and experts believe these figures will increase . |
| 25 | God 's invasion plans and strategies of salvation were not known to them . |
| 26 | Physical abuse is not known to be extensive and it may be felt that it has been excessively discussed in the context of ‘ dependence and independence ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Very low risk ’ activity is not known to be a risk but could occasionally result in transfer of these body fluids to another person . |
| 28 | Saliva , tears and urine are not known to be infectious . |
| 29 | ‘ My son kept a diary … three weeks before he flew to Moscow he recorded that he met an Alan Millet … four days before he left he met again with Alan Millet … why now does this Alan Millet speak of our son as if he were not known to him ? |
| 30 | As with the indecent assaults on males , the predominant feature of these reports is that they are concerned with men abusing their positions of trust rather than being some unknown sex beasts who are assaulting victims not known to them prior to the offence . |