Example sentences of "know or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one was likely to know or care . |
| 2 | ‘ He genuinely had no idea whatsoever as to who I was , and nor should he be expected to know or care about me . |
| 3 | Neither the retailer nor the consumer needs to know or care where the product comes from , though some countries now have ‘ country of origin' rules making mandatory the display of this information . |
| 4 | With sin and corruption , doom and catastrophe , threatening on every side , the only danger from the clergy came if they failed to know or do their job . |
| 5 | The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says . |
| 6 | We are called to resist him ( 1 Pet 5:9 ) , not to know or understand him . |
| 7 | The northern English towns might not know or care that Wall Street had crashed . |
| 8 | ‘ What do the public know or care about when I 'm out training in the cold ; what do they care when I am injured ? ’ |
| 9 | He watched her mouth fall open like an idiot 's , while her hand let the brush clatter to the floor ; she fell sideways , whether in a real or assumed faint he did not know or care . |
| 10 | It does n't matter what Mrs Jones thinks because Mrs Jones does n't know or care . |
| 11 | Why the American woman was so keen to become a link in the Nazi spy network he did n't know or care . |
| 12 | Molassi did n't know or care what that meant . |
| 13 | He did n't know or care whether Dickens liked this stuff , but he was damned certain he did n't . |
| 14 | He was going to be responsible for something that he did n't know or care the first thing about . |
| 15 | The informant of this space wondered if any today would know or care where the Brontes lived . |
| 16 | How it had got to London from Houston he did not know or want to know . |
| 17 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 18 | Force the other party to try hard to get your attention and let them know or think that they could lose out to someone else . |
| 19 | In the absence of a specially commissioned cost analysis on the impact of a particular patent , it is submitted that few employers will know or retain the detailed financial data which will assist the employee in his claim for compensation . |
| 20 | In other words , although you can not absolutely know or control the meanings that your novel communicates to its readers , you can not not know that you are involved in an activity of communication , otherwise you will have no criteria of relevance , logic , cohesion , success and failure , in the composition of your fictional discourse . |
| 21 | Do not truly know or love him . |
| 22 | After all she ca n't possibly stay up in Dublin with people we do n't know or have never heard of . |
| 23 | The tippee need not only knowingly obtain the information from an individual connected with a company ( as defined above ) who he knows or has reasonable cause to believe holds the information by being so connected , he must also know or have reasonable cause to expect that individual not to disclose that information save for the proper performance of that individuals duties . |
| 24 | In other words the tippee must , first , obtain from an individual , information which he knows to be unpublished price sensitive information ; secondly , he must know that the individual is a ‘ connected individual ’ within the meaning of the legislation ; thirdly , he must know or have reasonable cause to believe that that individual holds the information by virtue of being so connected ; and finally , he must know or have reasonable cause to expect that that individual should not have disclosed the information save for the proper performance of that individual 's duties . |
| 25 | In other words the tippee must , first , obtain from an individual , information which he knows to be unpublished price sensitive information ; secondly , he must know that the individual is a ‘ connected individual ’ within the meaning of the legislation ; thirdly , he must know or have reasonable cause to believe that that individual holds the information by virtue of being so connected ; and finally , he must know or have reasonable cause to expect that that individual should not have disclosed the information save for the proper performance of that individual 's duties . |
| 26 | Most computer operators do not know or wish to know about the mechanisms , and in any case these are not accessible to vision and manipulation . |
| 27 | Now we know differently , having opened our door after dark to persons we did not know or recognise . |
| 28 | I still sometimes think — ‘ I 'll ask Mum about that , ’ only to realize that she is dead and no one remains who could possibly know or take interest in such small family details . |
| 29 | The other partners are only safe if the individual who acted had no authority in fact and the party with whom he dealt either knew about the absence of authority or else did not know or believe the individual to be a partner . |
| 30 | ( a ) The Agency Principle Section 5 of the Partnership Act ( power of partner to bind the firm ) states that : Every partner is an agent of the firm and his other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership ; and the acts of every partner who does any act for carrying on in the usual way of business of the kind carried on by the firm of which he is a member bind the firm and his partners , unless the partner so acting has in fact no authority to act for the firm in the particular matter , and the person with whom he is dealing either knows that he has no authority , or does not know or believe him to be a partner . |