Example sentences of "knows for sure " 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 . |