Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] not know " in BNC.

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1 On the more nebulous issue of value for money of George Street Research said there was clear evidence , of which the opening quotation forms only a part , that clients do not know what goes into a piece of legal work to justify the fee , other than the fact that the job is done .
2 When this happens , the parties do not know and have no opportunity to address the judge on the matter .
3 The vice of uncertainty in relation to the duration of a term is that the parties do not know where they stand .
4 Unfortunately the authors do not know of any existing Green oil painting .
5 But what the rest of the candidates did not know was that Pilger had already earmarked someone for the job — the man who had gatecrashed the capitalization-day party — Keith Sutton of the Wapping Post .
6 The zeks did not know of the bitter trial of the breakdown .
7 The parents do not know what to expect of you and you do n't know what to expect of them .
8 If the parents do not know what has happened they should either not interfere in the upset or equally attribute blame knowing that a row can not happen without two parties being involved .
9 The engineers did not know ; they could give no intelligible reply .
10 In support of this contention he quotes research done by Thorpe , who found in a study of long-term foster-children that only 27 per cent had contact with their parents every six months or more frequently and that over 60 per cent of natural parents did not know where their children were living , with only 21 per cent feeling encouraged by their social worker to maintain contact .
11 Her parents did not know which guest house among the thousands in the resort Nicola had stayed in .
12 ‘ It has been claimed that their parents did not know the full extent of the dealings or what was on the films . ’
13 Yet railway enthusiasts do not know exactly which month it opened .
14 But the two companies did not know of the other 's needs until they were brought together by Darlington Business Link .
15 Nails did not know where it was .
16 Those who afterwards blamed Lambeth 1958 for platitudes did not know what they were talking about .
17 Those in other countries who pressure us to take more refugees do not know of Britain 's problems .
18 Fortunately these Austrians did not know how to wield the lash .
19 It is … no defense of consigning either humans or animals to environments that ignore their biological , social , or psychological interests … to claim that these individuals do not know what they are missing and so can not be any worse off for not having it .
20 Yet for many years most Europeans did not know the system existed and it was no substitute for full EMU .
21 The results showed that 49% of farmers did not know that ADAS offered public good advice .
22 Here two out of every three farmers/part-time farmers did not know about training activities .
23 Some of them are missing six years and their families do not know if they are alive . ’
24 ‘ You would find enterprise agencies did not know what to do with a disabled person they would refer them elsewhere and lose the problem . ’
25 ‘ We have established beyond doubt that current TV programmes do not satisfy their demands , apparently because the producers do not know what young people want , ’ he added .
26 In Darwin 's lifetime , physicists did not know about radioactivity , and therefore thought that the earth would cool down rather quickly .
27 Most often the owners do not know how to care for these exotic pets , and care even less that tremendous suffering is involved .
28 On the whole their families did not know what they did at work .
29 This is despite the fact that according to the law report the police officers did not know to which specific pits the pickets were travelling and that some of the evidence of violence on which the police officers relied was that which they had gathered from press and television reports .
30 Many firms do not know how much it costs to relocate staff .
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