Example sentences of "[pron] does not [adv] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that a child acquiring language who does not yet know what chair means but will acquire the knowledge must already have represented in his ‘ language of thought ’ a predicate of the kind ‘ is a portable seat for one ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ A guide who has not encountered his own passions , his own inner conflicts , who does not truly know his darkness and his light , will be of no value in the spiritual battle . ’ |
| 3 | It will be better , perhaps , if she does not wholly know that the will is in question . ’ |
| 4 | Amongst the working classes in this area , there seems to be no stigma attaching to a woman with a child she does not even know the father of ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ At the moment she does not even know where she was raped . ’ |
| 6 | The new mother is often terrified of making a mistake but she does not really know what is the best thing to do . |
| 7 | But if one is dealing with anything other than empirical knowledge of this kind — if , in short , one does not personally know in the sense just explained — the only honest thing one can say is that one does not know . |
| 8 | The only question is whether they will tell the Labour leader what he wants to hear or whether he does not even know what he believes about the state of Britain after 13 years of Tory rule . |
| 9 | Is not the truth of the matter not only that the Secretary of State is doing nothing about the housing needs of the service men and women who will be made redundant , but that he does not even know the facts ? |
| 10 | He does not even know where it is . |
| 11 | When he gets to Iona , Johnson will walk for the second time in footsteps he does not yet know about , those of the man who caused the folklore — Columba was here . |
| 12 | ‘ He does not yet know himself , ’ thought Lord Henry , with a smile . |
| 13 | He does not quite know how to ask . |
| 14 | The student often becomes bored with the endless repetition of drills ; he is not necessarily able to transfer the patterns he has practised into creative communication outside a classroom situation ; and he does not necessarily know how and when it is appropriate to use the structures he has practised . |
| 15 | If he can only argue to himself that they seem ’ interesting' it is highly likely that he does not really know why he is putting them in , or what he will do with the answers when he gets them . |
| 16 | Are , then , cell signals instructive in that they tell the cell something it does not already know ? |