Example sentences of "not know the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we do not know the real essences of the substances of natural philosophy , so all that we can do is to observe and list their properties , and form only beliefs and opinions about them . |
| 2 | How can the government monitor the programme , and even speed it up , if it does not know the simple facts about the number of hospitals affected ? |
| 3 | Many an age has passed since I last descended to Undersea ; I did not know the dark powers had such a grip on it . |
| 4 | Oddy did not know the stolen items were for presents and was sorry to learn the truth , Mr Furness added . |
| 5 | We have cultural stereotypes which suggest that such occasions are difficult for us , potentially embarrassing , because we do not know the appropriate responses . |
| 6 | At decision point B in Fig. 8.5. we do not know the full scores of the paths , but we can try to look ahead and estimate them or extrapolate from current scores . |
| 7 | They adopted what was becoming the catch-phrase of the moment — ‘ if you knew what we know ’ — but , as even the Convener of Orkney Islands Council , Jackie Tait , said he did not know the full details , how did some of the other councillors purport to know ? |
| 8 | Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed with the Olympus fibrescopes by two of the authors who did not know the manometric findings . |
| 9 | Negative mistakes , they say , arise from boredom with banal material , Controversially , they explore substitutions psychoanalytically , giving examples of cases where children make deviant responses , not because they do not know the original words , but because they do not want to say them . |
| 10 | When engineers build the plant and install the computer control , they do not know the precise values of these coefficients ; so they start the process running with approximate values , and write control programs which improve the values . |
| 11 | The complainant may not know the precise details of the agreement or arrangement or conduct which is damaging its competitive interests in the market place . |
| 12 | Further , as a result of his youth , he had not known the great days of English victories in France , although these had been concerned with the activities of his father , and he himself had been born in Bordeaux not long before his father had crossed to Spain to win his final victory . |
| 13 | I said I did n't know the other guys , we just happened to be in the same pub . |
| 14 | Even though words are my trade , I do n't know the right words . |
| 15 | When he gets well again , Thérèse thought : Madeleine wo n't let him remember , she does n't know the right words to say . |
| 16 | If you do n't know the chemical properties , you you might think oh I , zinc carbonate , describe zinc carbonate . |
| 17 | I did n't know the bloody blokes name ! |
| 18 | I do n't know the exact words . |
| 19 | At present we do n't know the exact details of how it works , but towards the end of the 1980s it became apparent that once that signal does get to the nucleus , what happens next in any process of cell plasticity and growth — a step first detected in rapidly dividing cancerous cells , but soon recognized to be a rather universal mechanism — is the activation of a group of ‘ immediate early genes ’ . |
| 20 | It 's not paid automatic because some people , well first of all we do n't know the precise dates when the proof is going to go out and also some people like to leave it there . |
| 21 | Erm , I er , like everybody else , are very glad to see they 're gon na get their release , but do you know Dougie , erm , I for the life of me , can not understand , and we do n't know the full circumstances , how these people wander into a country like Iraq , which has a terrible reputation , and they do n't like us very much , you know , how does this happen ? |
| 22 | They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution . |
| 23 | But before the hearing Mr Hayton who works as a farmer , said critics of the original sentence did n't know the full facts of ther case . |
| 24 | But it is guesswork because I do n't know the gentlemen concerned and I do n't know the full facts . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , I do n't know the sordid details . |
| 26 | I did n't know The Rolling Stones had started playing just down by the river . ’ |
| 27 | Believe me , Juliet , I did n't want to tell you this , but if I had n't I know Celia would , and she does n't know the true facts . ’ |