Example sentences of "[not/n't] know the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three schoolmasters upon whom he looked back with gratitude tell something about the boy : ( 1 ) a clear-headed Anglo-Catholic priest with a rasp of a voice who taught classics , Henry Balmforth : ( 2 ) the librarian Burd , a true classical scholar , and the only master in the school said not to know the name of the captain of cricket : ( 3 ) a gentle teacher ( Hayward ) , more expert at moths and butterflies than adolescents . |
| 2 | He will be criminally liable unless he was so insane as either ‘ not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ’ , or ‘ not to know that what he was doing was against the law ’ . |
| 3 | You 're not to know the ins and outs of my family . |
| 4 | I also found ‘ lanisticola ’ more aggressive — that being relative , as my real ‘ livingstonii ’ seemed not to know the meaning of the word . |
| 5 | Several of them were bound in a strange dry leathery material , which Ace was happy not to know the origin of . |
| 6 | In many ways , she would prefer not to know the identity or motive of her captors . |
| 7 | The equivalent level of ignorance in another subject might be not to know the name of Shakespeare or anything at all about evolution or to have any skills of basic measuring or to know that Asia is a continent . |
| 8 | They may be above the age of criminal responsibility but children aged between ten and 14 are presumed not to know the difference between right and wrong , therefore incapable of committing an offence . |
| 9 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 10 | Thompson did not know the details then because he did not want to . |
| 11 | A 27-year-old party member and ex-Red Army man had read the press regularly since 1917 , but did not know the meaning of words such as ‘ class enemy ’ , occupation , period , or most abbreviations , including the USSR . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , such people have not had their daily rhythms studied in detail and so we do not know the time-cues that are important to them . |
| 13 | The body clock has been studied very little in older volunteers and so we do not know the answer to this . |
| 14 | We do not know the exact site of the body clock in humans for the obvious reason that experiments to determine this are unethical . |
| 15 | Right now we do not know the extent of that problem . |
| 16 | Owens may not know the course intimately , but he knows Hare 's game , which relies on consistent direction off the tee and accuracy on the green . |
| 17 | Owens may not know the course intimately , but he knows Hare 's game , which relies on consistent direction off the tee and accuracy on the green . |
| 18 | Yeo Davis 's business was concerned with representing people who did not know the ropes , or even that there were any ropes ; Hutton 's predominantly with fellow professionals in other fields who just wanted the best and swiftest way through . |
| 19 | Eckert did not know the real Arthur Hardy 's share in these juvenile expeditions , nor had he seen the then unpublished A Sportman 's Tale which amplifies the sustained friendship between these two Battersea Grammar School pupils . |
| 20 | We just do not know the natures we are supposed to know , or how various properties follow from them . |
| 21 | But we do not know the real essences of the substances of natural philosophy , so all that we can do is to observe and list their properties , and form only beliefs and opinions about them . |
| 22 | He agrees with the ‘ more probable opinion … [ that ] this consciousness is annexed to , and the affection of one identical immaterial substance ’ , but , expressing his general scepticism about the extent of our knowledge , he says we really do not know the truth of the matter . |
| 23 | The careful exegete , however , will also be troubled by the fact that the Bible hardly majors on this issue , that we do not know the context of Paul 's two references to the subject , and that a strong anti-homosexual line is only possible if one has already assumed that such statements are immediately transferable into our situation straight from the biblical period . |
| 24 | You see , she did not know the driver . |
| 25 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 26 | Did it not know the truth ? |
| 27 | He had not read the Tower Commission 's report , evidently ; did not know that McFarlane had pleaded guilty to misdemeanours ; did not know the substance of the charges against Poindexter ; had not altered in any particular the mythology created when the edifice had first crashed down , in November 1986 . |
| 28 | Since even Mr Kinnock does not know the secret of what he really thinks , what chance is there of anyone else finding it out ? |
| 29 | Mr Moores said although he knew Mr Souness was ill , he did not know the extent of his condition until after the game . |
| 30 | Dr Sue Llewelyn , a lecturer in psychology at Edinburgh University , said psychologists were aware there was a problem , but did not know the extent of it . |