Example sentences of "not know the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several of them were bound in a strange dry leathery material , which Ace was happy not to know the origin of . |
| 2 | The three schoolmasters upon whom he looked back with gratitude tell something about the boy : ( 1 ) a clear-headed Anglo-Catholic priest with a rasp of a voice who taught classics , Henry Balmforth : ( 2 ) the librarian Burd , a true classical scholar , and the only master in the school said not to know the name of the captain of cricket : ( 3 ) a gentle teacher ( Hayward ) , more expert at moths and butterflies than adolescents . |
| 3 | The equivalent level of ignorance in another subject might be not to know the name of Shakespeare or anything at all about evolution or to have any skills of basic measuring or to know that Asia is a continent . |
| 4 | I also found ‘ lanisticola ’ more aggressive — that being relative , as my real ‘ livingstonii ’ seemed not to know the meaning of the word . |
| 5 | There is nothing to be said for propounding the philosophy of history if you do not know the date of the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 6 | When he said he did not know the date of Adam 's return , Lewis Verne-Smith had not lied to the police . |
| 7 | ‘ You , ’ said Rincewind , dismounting , ‘ do not know the half of it . |
| 8 | Since even Mr Kinnock does not know the secret of what he really thinks , what chance is there of anyone else finding it out ? |
| 9 | He found himself glad that he did not know the location of Surere 's hide-out . |
| 10 | If we now take the opposite extreme , that of a gas , we do not know the positions of atoms , merely their mean velocities , and the only relation we can obtain between load and displacement derives from the gas law from which we can obtain the " bulk modulus ' of the gas and this " modulus ' is entirely entropic in origin , no elastic forces being involved . |
| 11 | He had not read the Tower Commission 's report , evidently ; did not know that McFarlane had pleaded guilty to misdemeanours ; did not know the substance of the charges against Poindexter ; had not altered in any particular the mythology created when the edifice had first crashed down , in November 1986 . |
| 12 | When she told me how she came to be a refugee , she paused reflectively before each statement , conscious that as a foreigner I might not know the history of Palestine before 1948 . |
| 13 | What is interesting about this is that they clearly do not know the history of the form ; they are unaware that the rule was made so rigidly in the first place to suit the whims of anti-feminists . |
| 14 | some of you may not know the history of this decision . |
| 15 | In an interview with The Art Newspaper on 28 September , Christopher Davidge , managing director of Christies International , explained , ‘ by the end of the decade we will have a whole set of new clients who will not know the tradition of Christie 's and Sotheby 's as does our current base . |
| 16 | The Royal Commission expresses its surprise at the ignorance of water authorities , which still do not know the scale of the problem . |
| 17 | An adult nowadays can not really say , or even someone in school , in secondary school can not say that they do not know the dangers of cigarettes . |
| 18 | But she had no wish to go further into the pseudo-science , and did not know the hour of her birth anyway — only that she had Sol in Cancer . |
| 19 | The driver did not know the colour of the man 's eyes . |
| 20 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you not know the story of the Persian warrior who was marching to battle ? ’ |
| 22 | Even if a person did not know the consequences of giving up their autonomy , it is in fact these consequences which make the relinquishing of autonomy wrong . |
| 23 | COUNSEL : Turning now to another part of the same statement , although you do not know the magnitude of the forces , perhaps you can tell the Court what you meant when you used the words " from time to time " ? |
| 24 | Some manufacturers could come up trumps and it is regrettable that we do not know the name of the supplier of a truly splendid set of stamped gilt copper grip-plates with integral coronets and a trinity of really charming chinoiserie bells on the 1777 coffin of the Second Earl De La Warr at Withyam , Sussex . |
| 25 | The dogs might then been associated with a Phoenician temple , although Stager admits he does not know the name of the deity or the location of the temple . |
| 26 | I do not know the name of his new Chief Wife , but I think that apart from her , he only maintains concubines . |
| 27 | The requirements upon issue are : ( 1 ) filing by the applicant of the originating application ( N312 ) , a copy of each named respondent and two further copies ; ( 2 ) an affidavit in support with the same number of copies for service ; the affidavit should state : ( a ) the applicant 's interest in the land ; ( b ) the circumstances in which the land has been occupied without licence or consent and in which his claim to possession arises ; and ( c ) if it be that the name of any person occupying the land is not stated in the originating application , that the applicant does not know the name of such person . |
| 28 | The federation had asked to meet the council after a local sample survey showed that three out of five school children did not know the name of their townland . |
| 29 | ‘ Central Office did not know the name of the child until Wednesday morning when we read it first in the Independent and subsequently in the Daily Express . ’ |
| 30 | From the analysis we do not know the proportion of pregnant women who participated in this form of screening , but it seems that around 48% of cases might be detected if triple screening was universal . |