Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | While they were working on this case there were some things which Nikos had better not know . |
| 2 | This will ease traffic flow and communications since passengers will only have to give the name of person they wish to see , and the taxi driver will not only immediately know the destination , and that of his cousins and his workmates . |
| 3 | We shall perhaps never know what sparked his enthusiasm for collecting , but is certainly to be thanked for saving the many carriages , vans and carts which would otherwise have been broken up or left to rot . |
| 4 | But he would rather not know . |
| 5 | You never know , you might find out something you 'd rather not know . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't know the driver and I would rather not know him . |
| 7 | I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd rather not know , thanks . |
| 9 | But even if you would rather not know , in the next century you have at least a chance of benefiting from some of the advances the team are suggesting in surgical techniques . |
| 10 | As a church do we put ourselves with Jesus on the side of people in need or do we allow ourselves to be paralysed by fear or the temptations of wealth and forget what we would rather not know ? |
| 11 | Macbeth , for example , asks us some very difficult questions about ( amongst other things ) the relationship between power and sexuality , about acquiescence in the face of evil and turning a blind eye to things we 'd rather not know about . |
| 12 | ‘ It takes a lot of courage to confront these issues ; to ask yourself things you would rather not know the answers to . |
| 13 | But , er , do n't , I 'd rather not know why . |
| 14 | It will be better , perhaps , if she does not wholly know that the will is in question . ’ |
| 15 | Prison officers will not necessarily know how long any person will be detained and immigration officers do not seem willing to say . |
| 16 | There are many different ways in which speakers may exploit , in varying social functions , the resources of variation that are available to them , and we do not necessarily know beforehand what these are , how they interact , or what the limitations on possible variants may be . |
| 17 | The result of all this is that because of the divergence of Belfast English from other varieties and the internal divergence within it , we do not know beforehand what is the correct lexical input to any phonological variable , we do not necessarily know what the variants of the variable are , and we may not be at all certain about what precisely might count as a variable . |
| 18 | Applicants do not necessarily know the relative lengths of queues or their chances of obtaining housing in one sub-district rather than another . |
| 19 | The student often becomes bored with the endless repetition of drills ; he is not necessarily able to transfer the patterns he has practised into creative communication outside a classroom situation ; and he does not necessarily know how and when it is appropriate to use the structures he has practised . |
| 20 | One problem is that we do not necessarily know what a particular wavefunction looks like , and it is here that the LCAO approach to the construction of molecular orbitals is very useful . |
| 21 | The haulier will not necessarily know from week to week what products are to be transported — if any — but must have a range of vehicles available to cover all eventualities . |
| 22 | But if one is dealing with anything other than empirical knowledge of this kind — if , in short , one does not personally know in the sense just explained — the only honest thing one can say is that one does not know . |
| 23 | Visitors will not only know where they are going but will be able to recognise and name the person they are seeking . |
| 24 | After doing an audit to see which modules of your existing machine you can keep you will not only know if a motherboard upgrade is worthwhile , you will also know exactly what your shopping list is ! |
| 25 | The customer must not only know the protections he is giving up ( see ( 2 ) below ) but must also be aware of the effect of giving them up ; ( 2 ) The firm has given him a clear written warning of the private customer protections he will lose ; all the main protections must be listed ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) and not just those specified by SFA itself in its guidance . |
| 26 | In order to draft effectively , and to make intelligent use of precedents , the drafter must not only know what to say but why it is necessary to say it , how to say it , and what will be the result of saying it differently . |
| 27 | Thus the salesperson must not only know his products ' benefits but the types of situation in which each would be appropriate . |
| 28 | If Wullie Robertson was not to her liking he would soon enough know what he could do with his bloody trumpet . |
| 29 | But it is a necessary price to pay , if we want students to emerge with minds of their own , who do not merely know but understand in some depth what they know , and who are able to form and develop their own ideas . |
| 30 | Death will quickly draw the veil and make us see how near we were to God and one another , and did not sufficiently know it . |