Example sentences of "[pron] be [not/n't] know [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not to know that Tina , sticking to her principles , had long ago slept with her cousin Jarvis . |
| 2 | Her will included legacies of twenty pounds each to her Frome cousins , Mary and Sarah , the daughters of her uncle John Titford ; she was not to know that Mary would die just two months before she did , though Sarah , as we shall see , survived for another five years , long enough to bless the generosity of her Surrey cousin . |
| 3 | If it were not known that pupil-dilation was intimately related to neurological functioning of the brain its absence in some cases of head injury might go unremarked ; but once its significance is appreciated , such a seemingly slight symptom assumes drastic importance . |
| 4 | It 's not known if Nixon or Reagan ever read this passage . |
| 5 | It is not known whether A " . |
| 6 | It is not known whether Lady Tynte investigated just what had happened to the bird 's genitalia but subsequent studies of female pheasants showing similar transvestite tendencies revealed that only sexual differences developing at or after puberty were affected and that the reproductive organs themselves remained unaltered ( Yarrell , 1827 ) . |
| 7 | It is not known whether Acca 's expulsion was connected with the temporary deposition of Ceolwulf or with his subsequent restoration in the same year , or whether it was a totally unrelated crisis . |
| 8 | Editor , — Fritz H Schröder rightly emphasises that it is not known whether treatment of early prostatic cancer is beneficial or whether screening for the disease offers any advantage . |
| 9 | At present it is not known whether Mercury has any such crust . |
| 10 | It is not known whether Nucella shows a similar pattern of behaviour , but the two genera are very similar in many other respects . |
| 11 | It is not known whether Flaubear ever ate his namesake . |
| 12 | But it is not known whether TCR- β gene rearrangement or expression is required for such a transition , and no information is yet available on a role for TCR- α gene rearrangement or expression . |
| 13 | It is not known whether retrovirus can be assembled in which all the subunits of the viral envelope protein are fused to antibody , and if so whether the virus would infect cells . |
| 14 | Husameddin 's argument , moreover , ignores the facts that Shams al-Din is known to have been part of Molla Fenari 's name but not , so far as can be discovered , of that of his son and that the son was regularly referred to as Mehmed Sah whereas it is not known that Molla Fenari ever was . |
| 15 | ‘ At this stage it is not known if charges will follow as this will depend upon the results these interviews and other inquiries . ’ |
| 16 | Apart from the symphonies , Mozart 's compositions of 1788 include the Piano Concerto in C , K.503 , written in February ( it is not known if Mozart ever played it in public ) ; several new numbers for the Vienna première of Don Giovanni in May ( despite starring Caterina Cavalieri as Donna Elvira and Aloysia Lange as Donna Anna , the opera was even less successful there than Figaro , having only 15 further performances ) ; three piano trios written for Puchberg ; a piano sonata , and a quantity of light vocal music . |
| 17 | For example it is not known if landlords will be prevented from making unfair rent rises to cover what they claim is the cost of the Council Tax . |
| 18 | It is not known if Mrs Thatcher continues to practise this self-denying ordinance . |
| 19 | It is not known when Raedwald died but it must be significant that when Eadwine sought a new bride ( before c . |
| 20 | It is not known when Christianity first established itself in Ireland — or , for that matter , anywhere else in the British Isles . |
| 21 | It is not known when Napoleon managed to extricate himself from this chaos . |
| 22 | As the suspension of a unit trust over a pricing error is unprecedented , it is not known when units can be traded again . |
| 23 | When the plans were made it was not known that Myrtle Mott would be unable to teach during the year or that one of the days selected would coincide with an invitation for the N.D.T. to appear in Scotland . |
| 24 | It was not known if Koos van der Merwe , an advocate of the negotiations process who was expelled from the CP in April [ see p. 38850 ] , had joined to the new party . |
| 25 | ( He was not to know that Charles Olson , after next to no apprenticeship at all , would recklessly try to emulate him . ) |