Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] not know " in BNC.
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| 1 | If those old pros did n't know how to get Gesner back into the plot , how to adjust and improvise the act , then nobody could . |
| 2 | They tried to make the Social Work Department follow its guidelines , but some of the parents believed the social workers did n't know much about the document at all . |
| 3 | A day or two later — whenever it suits the Government — the theoretical actual vote takes place on the Floor of the House and , if a Division is called , most hon. Members do not know what they are voting about . |
| 4 | Social Services did n't know where to send me to have the baby . |
| 5 | Channel nine on the telly , mhm , there 's the right one that 's all in the right places do n't know We 're not going to see it after all |
| 6 | Yet let us always beware of jumping to conclusions , of assuming too readily that those experienced parliamentary draftsmen did not know their business and , perhaps above all , of attributing legislative intention too readily simply because we think that we , the judges , had we been the legislators , would have found such an intention sensible or morally or politically desirable . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then , when price is low firms do not know for sure whether it was because someone cheated ( produced a larger than agreed output ) , or because demand was low . |
| 9 | Since his primary physicians did n't know to what degree his pulmonary disease was indeed perhaps reversible , there was no reason not to comply with Ron ’ s wish . |
| 10 | I bet the poor devils do n't know whether they 're coming or going ! ’ |
| 11 | Bonnie Sibbald and colleagues conclude that , because general practitioners did not know the qualifications of the counsellors they employed , those counsellors were probably unqualified . |
| 12 | American kids do n't know that stuff now though , surely … |
| 13 | American students do n't know much about British history . " |
| 14 | And the other patients did n't know whether to speak to me or not . |
| 15 | The Maiden girls did n't know each other before the race but by the end many were firm friends . |
| 16 | Her courage and consideration were so remarkable that even close friends did not know until near the end that she was seriously ill . |
| 17 | But this shift of emphasis was not due to any direct influence from the Formalists whom , as I have said , the New Critics did not know ; it was due to the influence of a figure much closer to home , the poet T.S . |
| 18 | Most new mothers do not know what the Guthrie test is for : a considerable number incorrectly believe that it will detect more disorders than is the case . |
| 19 | The flats are self-contained , and the other occupants do n't know when he 's there or not . |
| 20 | Alice 's parents did n't know about toxic shock , and the fact it could be related to using a tampon , but also the parents of some other children , other women did n't know either . |
| 21 | The bemused Parisians did n't know what the fuck we were on about when we asked for the ‘ Adidas Centre ’ in several differing French accents . |