Example sentences of "[noun] not know " in BNC.

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1 However , there are difficulties with latent defects , for example , characteristics not known to be harmful at the time of delivery , or immunities to harmful substances being subsequently discovered .
2 And I think it was really rather refreshing to see the kids not know what was the right idea and actually dream up all sorts of fantasies for themselves , many of which were had their own validity .
3 ‘ All the better not to know him then , ’ said Lili .
4 Richard not known as Mersey Tunnel Gob or anything !
5 Two disciplines not known for their loving attachment to high , or any other height , technology .
6 The NME succumbed to The Smiths success by parading a lengthy Smiths interview by Biba Kopf , a writer not known for his enthusiasm for the Smiths .
7 It was a technological triumph and a magnificent intelligence coup , or would have been had the Russians not know about it all the time .
8 Moreover , the enzymatic cofactors that need to be added in vitro are in many cases not known and tRNA-substrates that specifically lack the nucleoside modification of interest are scarce ( 5–8 ) .
9 Burrows believes that smacking is as necessary as kissing and cuddling , and finds it ironic that the same kind of arguments about parents not knowing when to stop are used to undermine our instincts in both cases .
10 It must be an awful strain for the parents not knowing if they have the right baby . ’
11 She would mince about in her old fashioned winkle-picker shoes not knowing the first thing about dancing .
12 One of the points which might be made here is that Labov sets out explicitly to provide a model for handling communities not known to the investigator .
13 Which brings us to one vital and final point on the matter of taking our fauna aloft and then casting them off to the winds not knowing exactly where they are going to land .
14 Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others .
15 Had Canon Wheeler not known , or had he known and not passed on the information ?
16 Tough it may be , but Washington is one who defied the odds to achieve world status in a sport not known for its liberal representation of blacks .
17 For a girl not to know about periods before she has them ?
18 We just doe n't know what 's going to happen .
19 A hand took him by the shoulder and shook him awake , and he started up with a cry , for a moment not knowing where he was or what was happening to him .
20 Or , perhaps all our democratic rights have now been superseded by an even more compelling one — the right not to know .
21 For a teacher not to know which national policies exist and how financial considerations affect those policies creates — as far as parents are concerned who want information and advice — an unreliable ignorance .
22 Indeed , according to traditional scientific thought , not only does nature not know best ( science does ) , but it is blind , fickle , and must be ‘ vexed ’ , as Francis Bacon put it — rigorously put to the test in controlled experimental conditions — to make it reveal its secrets .
23 Every day we change a little , but you would n't expect Matthew not to know us , would you , eh ? ’
24 Does Mr not know , er I think he does , because I 've told him
25 Coroner claims friendly-fire truth not known
26 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 .
27 Crops of corn and vegetables were cultivated , along with many herbs and plants not known in Britain before .
28 But er basically the message did n't get passed on to him when I left it er the last time and he then did the tour Monday not knowing that we could have been recording it because
29 In the highly oxygenated water below a weir swim the little fish not known for nothing as the ‘ miller 's thumb ’ : the flattened head of the fish was often compared with the thumb of the miller , worn it was said from testing the flour .
30 Soon Richard Darman , the budget director not known for his light touch , will resume his attack .
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