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

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1 He said last night : ‘ I did not know that a policewoman had been stabbed but something serious had obviously happened .
2 The practice might not know that a need exists and may be able to help .
3 The practice might not know that a need exists and may be able to help .
4 Similarly , the Prevention of Terrorism Act requires bankers to prove that they did not know that a client 's funds were serving terrorism .
5 I would not have told you place or time if I did not know that every man of them is far into the mountains and out of your reach long before this .
6 Most people are fascinated by the way words change their meanings and their form and spelling : your pupils may not know that the history of any one word can be a story in itself ( like the etymology of the word " history " ) .
7 Isabella does not know that the Duke had played the role of the Friar instructing her in the foiling of Angelo 's plots , and so , lacking any independent evidence , she realizes how feeble her case must seem ; yet she still affirms that But the Duke , behaving as Angelo had predicted , and as he would have to behave if he had no evidence , sweeps aside her complaint , leaving her with only heaven to appeal to : The evil is indeed finally ‘ unfolded ’ , not by heaven but by the Duke , although Angelo ( as if recalling that passage in Luke 's gospel ) ascribes divine omniscience to him : But the Duke has only used deception and disguise , legitimately , as Shakespeare makes him say : ‘ Craft against vice I must apply ’ ( III.ii.270 ) .
8 Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago .
9 This , at least , is the view of Gair ( 1978 ) , who reports that a Gallup Poll in May 1978 showed that 40 per cent of Americans did not know that the United States imported oil at all , and that hardly any of them knew that it imported about half its crude oil and refined products at that time .
10 If the person whose liberty is interfered with does not know that the person who constrains him is a constable and believes that he is under attack , he will have the defence that , since he acted in self defence , he committed no assault .
11 It is irrelevant that the defendant did not know that the brochure had been read ( i.e. that the false statement had been made ) .
12 I am happy to accept that they did not know that the payment that they stood entitled to receive was limited by the list size criterion .
13 The shipowners knew that there was a sugar market at the port of destination but did not know that the merchants wanted to sell the sugar immediately on its arrival .
14 Yet it is true to say that the nuances of the legal institutions were imperfectly understood : if the epitomator of Gaius knew that there were differences between legacies and trusts , he still did not know that the word fideicommissarius should refer to the beneficiary of a trust and not to the trustee .
15 If the issuer did not know that the issue of the certificate triggered completion of the sale , or that it would be likely to do so , he would probably not be liable : see 14.11 .
16 Tommy and Iain do not know that the cheque will never come .
17 Obviously , as a young woman , with only enthusiasm and few resources , I did not know that the Blackwomen 's Creativity Project would be creating history by staging exhibitions and events .
18 ‘ But , ’ said the stranger , ‘ do you or do you not know that the law of England supposes every man to be innocent until he is proved — proved — to be guilty ? ’
19 Such a distorted sequence might have profound effects on the student 's musical abilities , especially in the earlier stages , and would certainly make the pedagogic method seem problematic to anyone who did not know that the order of grades had been transposed .
20 And they did not know that the portion which ebbed , never to flow again , made its way to an account in Hertford town , where Sir George Beador also banked .
21 The accused need not know that the act is unlawful : Newbury , DPP v Daley [ 1980 ] AC 237 ( PC ) .
22 The party who supplies the infant does so at his peril ; it will not avail him that he did not know that he was dealing with an infant , or that he thought that his position in life was such as to make the goods necessary , or that he did not know that the infant was already sufficiently supplied .
23 He may even be compelled to pay interest on arrears of rent even though he did not know that the rent was in arrear ( Allied London Investments Ltd v Hambro Life Assurance plc [ 1985 ] 2 EGLR 45 ) .
24 It did not know that the purchaser of the scrap had left some behind .
25 They all require us to make sense of the realist thought that it is always possible that , unknown to us , the world differs radically from the way it appears to us , and argue from this that we can not know that the world really is the way it appears to us .
26 The interesting feature of the case is that the corporation exacted the payments under a mistake of fact — they did not know that the limestone was to be burnt into lime , while the plaintiff made the payments under a mistake of law — he did not know of the exemption .
27 As Cameron opened with his usual explanation of the Act , he did not know that the Reverend William McIvor , a tall whiskery man with coarse orange hair and very pale blue eyes , had stayed outside his manse , in the cover of a thick yew tree , and was listening hard with a hand cupped round his ear .
28 The accused need not know that the victim was present .
29 I have told my hon. Friend in private and I am happy to tell him in public that if the doctors concerned say that when they installed the computer they did not know that the list size criterion existed , I am happy to accept that as a statement of fact .
30 The accused need not know that the owner does not consent or know that the conveyance has been taken without authority .
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