Example sentences of "[not/n't] know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they did not know beforehand that one of the children they were about to take suffered from asthma . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In such situations we typically do not know beforehand what all the linguistic variants involved actually are , so we must use very careful and accountable methods of selection and analysis . |
| 4 | And as we believe that erm the earth and the sun were formed at the same time , so we 're starting to know a lot more about the original material from which the sun and the earth were formed , and here we find that it 's just full of prebiotic molecules which we did not know beforehand and therefore puts a different perspective on what we think the earth 's early atmosphere might have been . |
| 5 | It is at least possible that he did not know otherwise and that his father was responsible for this fiction , assuring his son that he truly was the child of British parents , though American-born . |
| 6 | We do not know just how much cohesion is necessary for a society to exist , but we know that some cohesion is necessary . |
| 7 | There was only so much she could take , and she did not know just when her breaking-point might come . |
| 8 | ‘ The wreck is important because we do not know just why it was there and how it was sunk ’ , explains Noel . |
| 9 | One can not know completely either the information that was available or the value that should have to be associated with obtaining more information prior to the decision being taken . |
| 10 | What they did not know — and perhaps Mr Desai did not know either — was that urine contains large amounts of melatonin — a chemical secreted by the pineal gland which is involved ( no one knows how ) in setting the body 's natural rhythms . |
| 11 | They also show that when people do not know either the APR or the total credit cost , they can not always sniff out the better-value end of the repayment period scale ( in terms of much lower APR ) simply from the level of the instalment payments offered . |
| 12 | He clearly did not know either . |
| 13 | In any event , knowledge within the firm of the identity of the intermediary 's client may not identify him if the salesman or perhaps the dealer concerned did not know either that the intermediary was acting as intermediary or the identity of the client ; this is a Chinese wall-type question . |
| 14 | It 's interesting that gay men on Switchboard found it much easier to accept that they did n't automatically know best for lesbians than white people on Switchboard find it to accept that they might not know best for Black people . |
| 15 | What we do not know passionately , offers us no resistance , we pass through it as through air . |
| 16 | The woman is looking me straight in the eyes , Alida thought , she does not know even the basic elements of courtesy , she has paid no attention at all to the very relevant account of my condition . |
| 17 | We do not know even today whether or not this is the case , but Pons certainly felt very strongly that it should be lithium deuteroxide , LiOD . |
| 18 | When the future Cardinal Richelieu entered government service for the first time in 1616 he found available so little essential documentation on foreign policy that he had to ask French representatives abroad to send him copies of the instructions they had been given : without this he could not know even what the policies of his immediate predecessor had been . |
| 19 | I I 'm grateful Mr Deputy Speaker and I I will certainly er stay in order but the British electorate coming up to June the ninth and the European er elections will not know even if we pass these particular proposals tonight er in which constituencies they will be voting and if I may give an illustration as the honourable member for Truro did er er as far as his European constituency is concerned er the European constituency of Derbyshire Ashfield will d be divided into three different directions as the result of this particular order in council if we pass it tonight . |
| 20 | Even those who most strongly advocate their use as research tools would admit that we do not know exactly what neural processes generate them and that any particular fluctuation will be the result of a multiplicity of different kinds of changes occurring in several different and possibly independent systems . |
| 21 | Here again , however , difficult practical problems may be encountered , since we do not know exactly how many dies a coin die could make . |
| 22 | He did not know exactly what school was . |
| 23 | As we do not know exactly what will appear in second-hand booksellers ' catalogues , the choice of books will of necessity have to be left to us , but your certificate will state the title of the book which you have presented . |
| 24 | For example , we do not know exactly how God made the world , but that does n't stop us believing that he DID make the world . |
| 25 | In the first place I do not know exactly what it was like in all its details . |
| 26 | We do not know exactly when Julian was immured . |
| 27 | She did not know exactly how she had arrived at the last overwhelming conviction , only that she had . |
| 28 | We may not know exactly how evolution took place , but it is at least now clear that humanity evolved in some way from the higher apes ; that there were female and male of other species on the earth before the appearance of women and men . |
| 29 | We do not know exactly how many of those who re-applied were supporting children , who are mentioned only occasionally in the sources . |
| 30 | Before her marriage Anna had been taken up as one of the handful of pet Americans and now , although they did not know exactly what had happened , everybody in London sided with her . |