Example sentences of "not know [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I do not know whether a man or a woman
2 In the absence of reasons , the citizen can not know whether a decision has been rationally , and hence lawfully made .
3 The main sponsors of the meeting , Professors Matthew Meselson of Harvard University and Carl Kaysen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , declined to answer questions about the meeting , Those who did speak to New Scientist did not know whether a summary of the discussions would be made public ,
4 We do not know whether the Lady of Vix received her gigantic vase — a Laconian one ? — through Massalia .
5 I do not know whether the Under-Secretary of State for Wales will tell us when Mr. Stoner 's report will be made available .
6 I do not know whether the Minister will come back with the news that the farmers want .
7 I do not know whether the Minister has seen today 's announcement about the loss of 370 jobs at the Volvo plant in Copeland in west Cumbria .
8 I do not know whether the Minister would agree that , until now , we have heard explanations from both sides of the Chamber about the imperfect and expensive competition which has arisen as a result of the privatisation of the electricity supply industry .
9 I do not know whether the Minister agrees with the evidence given by the hon. Member for Erewash ( Mr. Rost ) and by my hon. Friends about privatisation of the electricity supply industry .
10 I do not know whether the Minister agrees .
11 We do not know whether the lake is safe for our customers to fall into . ’
12 After three ministerial speeches , we still do not know whether the Government would veto a treaty at Maastricht that contained the word ’ federal ’ .
13 As Ingram and Redpath note , ‘ Fire out ’ was common usage for ‘ infect with a venereal disease ’ , so the line means that ‘ the poet will not know whether the Friend has slept with the woman until he sees whether he has contracted venereal disease ’ .
14 As in all business calculations , the cost of obtaining such information needs to be balanced against its benefits , ( and against the consequences of limiting the search to a point where the forecaster does not know whether the information foregone is more or less than marginally useful ) .
15 I do not know whether the pattern which we see in this country — of significant differences between girls and boys appearing only at the higher levels of achievement — would also apply to the SIMS data .
16 We do not know whether the process would have reached its conclusion if Mr. Thorpe had not had the alternative course open to him .
17 I do not know whether the director of The Tallis Scholars was gratified to find himself presented in The New Yorker as an American stereotype of the classy Englishman with a dandyish dress sense , a love of cricket , a public school education leading to Oxford , and a colloquial idiom with a touch of P. G. Wodehouse .
18 I do not know if the vicar was believed or not , but thereafter the bridge was known as Devil 's Bridge .
19 We do not know if the fragment was ever sent to ‘ Sheila ’ .
20 Ellis said he did not know if the girl took clients back to his flat and he would have ‘ gone up the wall ’ if she did .
21 In addition , as Caro ( May 29 , p 1381 ) points out , we do not know if the baseline embolic risks and responses to treatment of people with AF in the community would match those seen in highly selected study populations .
22 I do not know if the gesture is valid , but I enjoy the ritual ; it makes me feel better .
23 We do not know if the cause is genetic , the result of physical or mental antecedents such as infection or early childhood experiences or , as has been suggested by some observers , the outcome of growing up feeling disaffected and disenfranchised in a rejecting society which offers black people few prospects of work , wealth and the good things in life to which white people aspire .
24 Proponents ( and opponents ) argue fiercely that it will ( or will not ) , but we shall not know until the system is in operation in several years ' time .
25 In addition it is not known whether the influence of nutritional treatment on the disease process is as beneficial in nourished as in undernourished patients .
26 In particular it is not known whether they have been formed in relation to present sea level , in very much the same way as it is not known whether the wavecut platform round Britain was formed entirely in relation to present sea level .
27 It is not known whether the temperature continues to increase towards the centre .
28 But because the case was heard in private it is not known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family .
29 It is not known where the papingo was placed to be shot at but it was probably on top of the old steeple of the parish church ( demolished in 1721 ) or on the roof of the tolbooth which stood in High Street , between the Town 's House and the Cross .
30 It is not known where the Gospel was written but it must have been written for a Jewish Christian community .
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