Example sentences of "[not/n't] know [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Police said they did not know why the gun had gone off , but believed it might have been triggered by the wind . |
| 3 | We still do not know why the large cerebellar Purkinje neurons and CA1 hippocampal neurons have such large numbers of IP 3 Rs . |
| 4 | Having listened to the arguments of my Hon. Friends I do not know why the Minister has not leapt to his feet to say that he accepts the new clause . |
| 5 | I do not know why the amendment has been tabled . |
| 6 | I do not know why the Minister is making such heavy weather of this matter . |
| 7 | I do not know why the Leader of the House bothers with his Committees , given that he has apparently introduced a major constitutional innovation without any agreement from them . |
| 8 | ‘ I do not know when the Lord will take me . ’ |
| 9 | Thirdly , something James could not know when the season began , 1976 was going to be one of the most contentious seasons , politically and administratively , that I have ever known in the sport , and there were several times in the year when it really looked as though the fates were conspiring to make it impossible for Hunt to win . |
| 10 | Employees are unlikely to decide whether or not to move with their firm if they do not know when the move is taking place ; where the company is moving to ; who is affected ; what are the financial inducements to relocate ( if any ) ; what are the redundancy terms for those eligible for them who stay behind ; what are the medium and long-term prospects of the job in the new location ; and many other points of concern . |
| 11 | Adopters , however , do not make this transition to parenthood : they do not know when the child is expected , find it too distressing to attend standard parentcraft classes with pregnant women and may lack basic childcare knowledge . |
| 12 | Consider , for example , finding the following notice on someone 's office door : ( I ) I 'll be back in an hour Because we do n't know when it was written , we can not know when the writer will return . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Once we did not know where the Battlebus was going to stop during a tour of Suffolk until minutes before it arrived . |
| 15 | Of course , you vary the cast at first , until you discover the hotspot , but if you have not noted each cast fairly precisely you will not know where the fish came from when you do catch one . |
| 16 | Take Bart 's away and I do not know where the patients would go . |
| 17 | Children may learn to pass urine and faeces in it but accidents will still happen when they are preoccupied in play or are in a place where they do not know where the lavatory is . |
| 18 | They do not know where the money is ‘ invested ’ , whether in British enterprises or overseas , in speculation on property or ‘ art treasures ’ , or in lending to the government to finance unemployment . |
| 19 | But she did not know where the young men slept , either . |
| 20 | ‘ Does he , or does he not know where the ship is ? ’ |
| 21 | I really do not know where the hon. Gentleman found the ’ 44 ’ figure . |
| 22 | The explanation is that you lack control or feel at the end of the stick , and the reason is that you do not know where the end is . |
| 23 | So my answer to the question A is , I am not against a new settlement , of the right scale in the right location , but it is not a panacea , it is not an answer to all the questions , now it 's being offered in terms of a balanced strategy , I say that balanced strategy as put forward does not work , certainly beyond two thousand and six , and may grind to a halt well before two thousand and six if rates of development proceed er as they have done in certain years in the past , so it 's very important to look at that , can we just revisit the public acceptance of the new settlement , of course the public have accepted it and welcomed it , it has certain attractions , I support those attractions , however it 's easy for the public to accept that when measured against certain sites specific proposals that were put to them when they did not know where the new settlement would be , and still do not know , when new settlement locations are put forward it will be quite a different scenario . |
| 24 | BNFL admitted it did not know where the waste originated . |
| 25 | I do not know how the customs people work these things out , but I have never paid import duties on these overseas postal purchases . |
| 26 | Again , we do not know how the time-cues work but there are schemes that can very reasonably be suggested . |
| 27 | Thus although we do not know how the DNA controls development , we are reasonably sure that it does carry almost all the information which has been produced by selection , and which is needed to control development . |
| 28 | Before its commencement we did not know how the ENP would be received in the department or indeed whether the proposed scheme would turn out to be a workable one . |
| 29 | Out on the river earlier in the battle , Commander Ryder had ordered the MGB back alongside Campbeltown ‘ and gone ashore with Leading Seaman Pike — an expert in German signals , part of the bluff — to make sure the destroyer was locked into the southern caisson , but he did not know how the battle was going ashore . |
| 30 | The Collector did not know how the magazine had been blown up but he did not stop to wonder . |