Example sentences of "[not/n't] know [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 2 | The crew were not to know that this day would be so different from their previous raid on Berlin . |
| 3 | He was not to know that those pictures appalled her , that she had never imagined herself capable of such thoughts . |
| 4 | They were much less likely to say there were laws or regulations protecting people who take out credit agreements , and much more likely not to know whether any action could be taken over some credit agreement which they had signed but later felt was unfair . |
| 5 | I do not know whether that is being emulated elsewhere , so I am asking rather than making a statement . |
| 6 | I do not know whether that means that he has changed his policy or is distancing himself from the official line of the Labour party on unemployment issues . |
| 7 | I do not know whether that is the answer but , as my right hon. Friend the Member for Selby ( Mr Alison ) said , in too many cases the playing field is not level enough . |
| 8 | I do not know whether that is a serious matter , but given the right hon. Gentleman 's experience and standing , I should have thought that the Opposition Front Bench spokesmen would take careful notice of what he says . |
| 9 | ‘ We just do not know whether economic wind generators , still less economic wave-power and geothermal power , is going to be developed , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I do not know whether poor , dreamy Grandma knew what it was all about , or whether she just gathered , in a vague way , the drift of things . |
| 11 | I have to say here that I honestly do not know whether such experiences are examples of genuine recall or figments of the dreamer 's imagination . |
| 12 | It is not only that other scientists can not know whether such effects occurred in the experimenter 's interaction with his subjects ; the investigator himself may not know whether these effects have occurred . |
| 13 | That same November , I escaped from Oxford life by securing permission — I do not know whether such authorization is needed these days — to go to a performance in London by the Group Theatre in Great Newport Street , under Rupert Doone , of Sweeney Agonistes . |
| 14 | Nor can the stability argument be regarded as the last word , as we do not know whether general relativity itself will be valid right up to the space-time singularity . |
| 15 | I do not know whether fundamental reform of the CAP will ever come about . |
| 16 | In truth , however , we just do not know whether this is impossible . |
| 17 | I have heard of the practice of solicitors buying local searches from the vendor 's solicitors , in order to save time , but I do not know whether this is widespread . |
| 18 | We can not know whether this is due to difference in the real effect or differences in degree of bias . |
| 19 | Alix herself was not mimicked , or not that she could see : she did not know whether this was a sign of affection , contempt , or indifference . |
| 20 | I do not know whether this was associated with the fact that no one ever sought a tea meeting with me and that I was relieved of the obligation of conducting a rather spurious theological discussion on the basis of almost total ignorance . |
| 21 | I can not understand why some Opposition Members — we do not know whether this is the official Opposition Front-Bench policy — appear to believe that profits from private medicine must be preserved for private companies and not made available to the NHS to improve care for NHS patients . |
| 22 | We do not know whether this Bill will be any better . |
| 23 | We do not know whether most of what we have observed in this field can be generalized to other fields or , indeed , to less intensively studied parts of the same field . |
| 24 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 25 | We do not know whether those who have received an agricultural education run more profitable agricultural businesses but I imagine most people assume they do . |
| 26 | I do not know whether Conservative Members have given any thought to what the present discount system is likely to do — it is more likely to accelerate the disintegration of the family than to bring people together . |
| 27 | It is not only that other scientists can not know whether such effects occurred in the experimenter 's interaction with his subjects ; the investigator himself may not know whether these effects have occurred . |
| 28 | We do not know whether these underlying conditions are responsible for the low CD4 counts . |
| 29 | I find Dr. Proudie and some of the characters such as Mr. Harding and Eleanor Bold rather pathetic and not worthy of sympathy — I do not know whether these are the sentiments Trollope hoped to arouse , but though I obviously dislike Mrs. Proudie as we are supposed to , I find that I can admire her and sympathise with her for having the bad luck to be surrounded by such people . |
| 30 | A nuclear explosion is what it could have been , but you do not know that that is what it was . ’ |