Example sentences of "[adv] know [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result of all this is that because of the divergence of Belfast English from other varieties and the internal divergence within it , we do not know beforehand what is the correct lexical input to any phonological variable , we do not necessarily know what the variants of the variable are , and we may not be at all certain about what precisely might count as a variable . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're a good twenty years younger , and they 've only known them a year or two . |
| 3 | God alone knew what the girl did after the golden boy had gone off to sell his 57 varieties , heaven only knew why she could n't get herself dressed before ten o'clock . |
| 4 | God alone knew what the traffic would be like on the freeway , through the mean streets of Edgware , down to the inferno that was the A406 , on through gloomy Tolworth and Chessington , out to the no-man's-land that was Leatherhead . |
| 5 | God only knows what the KGB will do to them , poor wretches . ’ |
| 6 | Many seemed not to know what the knives and forks were for and took the napkins for handkerchiefs . |
| 7 | Roger : Yes , but it 's too soon to know what the differences will be . |
| 8 | He was our college barber ; and at a time when most of us were penniless he cut hair for a shilling ( = 5p , to those who do not know what a shilling was ) . |
| 9 | If you do not know what a tree or shrub is , exercise clemency and give it a year 's grace to demonstrate its worth before you turn it over to the axeman . |
| 10 | Alain did not know what a shock it had been to be dragged up those stairs and to find a room like a small time capsule , the very essence of the man she had not known still lingering there . |
| 11 | This is grievous news , grievous not only for this and other universities but for the nation ; for it is a grave national misfortune to be governed by those who do not know what a university is and what distinguishes it from other institutions of learning and study , not to mention training . |
| 12 | The wise man in Proverbs twenty seven , he says , do not boast about tomorrow for you do not know what a day may bring forth . |
| 13 | These eagles would not know what a zoo was , or believe that he had escaped from one in a place where no eagles lived naturally . |
| 14 | He may not know what a lying , idle little slummock he 's taken under his wing . ’ |
| 15 | He does not know what a hyena can do to a human body . ’ |
| 16 | ( Some , in this less heroic age , may not know what a Guest Tea was . |
| 17 | Military privilege was undefined ; civilians did not know what an officer was entitled to , what they could safely refuse , what belonged to the armed forces , and what claims were backed only by an officer 's pretensions . |
| 18 | One could not know what an experience was like without knowing whether it was pleasurable or not , but one could know what it was like without recognizing its value , even though this follows necessarily from its being like just what it was . |
| 19 | One can not know what an adjective is being applied to just by considering its lexical meaning : the support of an adjective is defined by something outside the adjective 's own lexical content . |
| 20 | We do not know what the consultants originally said when they first produced a draft for the promoter , and what they were then asked to add afterwards to make it a little more toothsome for the promoters , to make it a safer version of the environmental impact assessment . |
| 21 | We still do not know what the Government 's aims and objectives at Maastricht are . |
| 22 | He could not interpret the hand gestures and did not know what the offworlder was thinking . |
| 23 | We do not know what the staying-on rate will be until the autumn , and it is capable of further revision during the year . |
| 24 | The captain did not know what the craft was carrying , though that was not unusual , and the line was under contract partly for its discretion . |
| 25 | I do not know what the majority here or in the country may think about it . |
| 26 | She did not know what the message was : Lee in this state was no longer a lovelorn friend but a trauma . |
| 27 | I do not know what the Anglo-Saxons called a rabbit , a candidate for description , I should have thought . |
| 28 | I do not know what the hilarity is about , but please carry on . |
| 29 | The institutions did not know what the criteria or standards were , and the process of validation normally meant two or three visits to the institution — with the first visit being a learning process for the institution , to hear what the process was all about . |
| 30 | The very freedom from mass accountability which allows it to do so also makes it difficult for leaders to know what society is thinking : without mechanisms for making needs known and understood , Polish and Soviet leaders simply can not know what the consequences of a rise in food prices or of other policy shifts will be . |