Example sentences of "[not/n't] know [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to know that is to be ignorant of the whole point of the affirmation . |
| 2 | It had come to harm enough , but he was not to know that . |
| 3 | ‘ Shame on you , ’ came the bantering reply , ‘ not to know one of your own local poets . |
| 4 | He stresses that ‘ our business here is not to know all things , but those which concern our conduct ’ . |
| 5 | To watch them pretending not to know all the things about me which I take not the least trouble to conceal . |
| 6 | Paul ‘ determined not to know any thing … save Jesus Christ and him crucified . ’ ( 1 Corinthians 2 v. 2 ) . |
| 7 | The blood on my face was not mine — though she was not to know this . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the week before the race , she became embroiled in a controversy over the skill of her opponent , the American Leigh Weiss , who had also steered international women 's crews but who was deemed not to know enough of the Boat Race course on London 's tideway . |
| 10 | The Pereires , however , did not know modern commercial banking , which developed at about the same time across the channel in England . |
| 11 | I arrived at my quarter at what time I do not know due to me being very intoxicated and when I awoke some hours later I discovered the following ’ . |
| 12 | She had been secure , certain of her facts , her life built on the reality of the past , and now things were all tilted , wavering , with a man she did not know issuing orders that would take her towards a place she had no desire to visit . |
| 13 | Because he does not know other countries ' systems or customs , he has a certain narrowness of thinking , which we Europeans do not have , of course . |
| 14 | He himself had a beautiful voice , but he did not know all that amount of technique . |
| 15 | More generally , Arrow ( 1984 ) calls it hidden information or hidden knowledge — the principal does not know all that the agent knows . |
| 16 | Again , because of the nature of the allegations and counter-allegations , it seems probable that the hearing would be lengthy and bitter , and in view of their ages it seems to me impossible that the children would not know all about the hearing and the issues raised by it and be caught up in that bitterness . |
| 17 | If they did not know all of his plans , they would be placing themselves in great danger . |
| 18 | Usually we do not know all the sites , and we do not know if they were all contemporary or only used seasonally . |
| 19 | as if he did not know all this for himself , and was not endlessly wrestling , valiantly and incredulously , with the problem of his own chronic poverty ! |
| 20 | I feel I do not know all the secrets of your heart . |
| 21 | We do not know all the scientific nuances of the problem . |
| 22 | to Coronation Street do not know all the facts of course , we are ignorant of the finer points of the time gone by , but why is Deirdre so lasted to Ken I 've yet to catch up with Wednesday night 's proceedings on my video contraption , but the last thing that I heard Deirdre say to Ken as he was recovering on a put-u-up in her front room was , I 'm stuck with you till you back on your feet and as far as I 'm concerned it ca n't come soon enough for me , Ken lay there immobile , stunned , a cruel carry on , what 's the poor chap done , but then I 've missed too much |
| 23 | And Gaily took her quick reply for unwillingness , too , and decided that they did not know one another well enough yet to ask such questions , such casual , family questions , as between friends . |
| 24 | Those blessed with a prophetic vision of soccer 's future , like Mike Channon and myself , are often completely ignored or misunderstood , whereas charlatans who would not know one end of a football from another , the Reg Pybuses and Howard Wilkinsons of this world , suck up to mediocrity and call it talent . |
| 25 | In a partnership consisting of several hundred partners — sometimes over a thousand in the US — the partners can not know each other . |
| 26 | Birth is the acknowledgement of separation ; without this , mother and child can not know each other properly . |
| 27 | We did not know each other . |
| 28 | When Ross and Minton set off in August 1947 , stopping first in Paris where they obtained a passage to Ajaccio from the French Minister of Culture , Louis Joxe , they did not know each other well . |
| 29 | Sadly , there are many within our community who do not know each other . |
| 30 | Lord Taylor said that Kennedy and Mr Quinn , who did not know each other , were arrested separately for drunkenness and were in a cell known as the tank when the fatal injuries were inflicted . |