Example sentences of "not know [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a teacher not to know which national policies exist and how financial considerations affect those policies creates — as far as parents are concerned who want information and advice — an unreliable ignorance . |
| 2 | Although a search may be successful , we do not know which key rule led to its success . |
| 3 | Clifford said he did not know which academic dress to wear as he had three London degrees , and ‘ I ca n't wear them all at once ’ . |
| 4 | He sensed vaguely that he was inferior , as do the majority of those who are on the threshold of the bourgeoisie but who do not know its inner secrets . |
| 5 | v. Lowthian the defendants knew of the existence of the contract between the plaintiffs and their co-contractors but they did not know its precise terms and said that they assumed from their experience in other cases that it could be terminated at short notice . |
| 6 | We do not know what legal or moral basis there was for it . |
| 7 | ‘ We have established beyond doubt that current TV programmes do not satisfy their demands , apparently because the producers do not know what young people want , ’ he added . |
| 8 | As a result their supervisors feel threatened and do not know what new skills to supervise them on . |
| 9 | In that context — I do not know what Labour Members are saying . |
| 10 | A senior administration official has also said , privately , that it is impossible , this time round , to argue that the world does not know what ethnic cleansing means . |
| 11 | That is to say , we do not know how these patterns of variation function within the community : we do not know what social meanings the variation carries for in-group members . |
| 12 | She thinks it all very romantic — she does not know what hard work being a servant is — and nor did I , for that matter . |
| 13 | I have a particular interest in South Africa 's erm foreign policy and one of the , from the past , one of the things that South African decision makers have said to me , our dilemma is we do not know what American policy is because if we listen to the Pentagon we get a different voice coming out than if we listen to , let us say , congressional members who are visiting from the committee of foreign affairs . |
| 14 | If the Vendor does not know what intellectual property rights it should be using , how can the Purchaser ? |
| 15 | If the Vendor does not know what intellectual property rights it should be using , how can the Purchaser ? |
| 16 | Their predecessors are still to be found , sometimes cheaply with those who do not know their true significance and worth . |
| 17 | She did not know his real name , and did not ask either Madge or Mr Mortimer , both of whom had already taken him home , what it was . |
| 18 | A BANK accused a man of using his hole-in-the-wall cash card to defraud it of hundreds of pounds — even though he did not know his personal number . |
| 19 | It is a poor leader who does not know his opposite numbers , and while I do not go to the extent of General Montgomery in the desert with a picture of my primary competitors hanging on the wall of my office , I know them all , and have a healthy respect for them . |
| 20 | Heywood 's successor was called Bamford , but we do not know his Christian name . |
| 21 | That I think perhaps is one of the striking differences between that and living in a house in Harlow , where you may or may not know your immediate neighbours . |
| 22 | If you do not know your term-time address at the time of registration please notify your Faculty Office and the University Registry of your address as soon as it is known . |
| 23 | ‘ On 16 April we left Greenock on the old aircraft carrier ‘ Argus ’ with twenty-four Hurricanes , twenty-five pilots and an appropriate number of fitters and riggers for Gibraltar ( although we did not know our precise destination at the time , of course . |
| 24 | We restricted our comments to the design of pending trials in the United States that are a matter of considerable debate , and suggested that such trials should be comparative precisely because , as and say , ‘ it is not known which specific immune responses are required for therapeutic benefit ’ . |
| 25 | I took a couple of pictures anyway , not knowing what possible good they would do , then kicked the Shogun in the driver 's door just for the hell of it . |
| 26 | But then we do n't know which other areas are ready , do we ? |
| 27 | I still do n't know which specific events led to my becoming anorexic . |
| 28 | WE STILL do n't know which Tory backsliders dared to second Sir Anthony Meyer 's nomination papers in his bid for ultimate power . |
| 29 | But he could n't know her personal feelings for him . |
| 30 | He knows she has been married since graduating but does n't know her present surname or whereabouts . |