Example sentences of "[not/n't] know the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thompson did not know the details then because he did not want to . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The body clock has been studied very little in older volunteers and so we do not know the answer to this . |
| 6 | We do not know the exact site of the body clock in humans for the obvious reason that experiments to determine this are unethical . |
| 7 | Right now we do not know the extent of that problem . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Eckert did not know the real Arthur Hardy 's share in these juvenile expeditions , nor had he seen the then unpublished A Sportman 's Tale which amplifies the sustained friendship between these two Battersea Grammar School pupils . |
| 12 | We just do not know the natures we are supposed to know , or how various properties follow from them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You see , she did not know the driver . |
| 17 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 18 | Did it not know the truth ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Since even Mr Kinnock does not know the secret of what he really thinks , what chance is there of anyone else finding it out ? |
| 21 | Mr Moores said although he knew Mr Souness was ill , he did not know the extent of his condition until after the game . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mr Bartell said : ‘ We do not know the command structure in these circumstances . |
| 24 | Obviously , I do not know the answer , nor do I trust the American claim that only one in 10 therapists over there has taken advantage of the opportunities afforded . |
| 25 | Since we also hope that this account may be of interest to those who do not know the area , it includes , especially at the beginning , some historical and other background information about Lewis and Harris , in the wider contexts of the Western Isles as a whole and of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 26 | This is of course very useful diagnostically where the teacher does not know the class . |
| 27 | We simply do not know the answer to this question but brief mention of the complexity of a human individual 's environment may suffice at this point to indicate how elaborate the considerations will have to be . |
| 28 | In other words , if a minister does not know the right question to ask MI5 about a particular operation or allegation then MI5 will not volunteer any information on its own . |
| 29 | When she told me how she came to be a refugee , she paused reflectively before each statement , conscious that as a foreigner I might not know the history of Palestine before 1948 . |
| 30 | Yet although the problem is officially recognised , workers may not know the risks , say researchers . |