Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [adv] know " in BNC.

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1 They do not just know the ropes : they make the ropes .
2 Still , I have no intention of prescribing a correct attitude towards difference , even less a correct theory of difference ; I do not even know what the latter could possibly be .
3 Most Americans do not even know what a company car is . )
4 From my understanding , more than a quarter of a million TM practitioners in England are in ignorance , currently invoking heathen deities twice a day , and the majority do not even know it !
5 Often , the manufacturers do not even know to what extent their equipment will stand up to RFI .
6 Why , you do not even know what will happen tomorrow .
7 A feature of suburbia is that many people do not even know their own neighbours ; certainly not those across the way .
8 The truth is that we do not even know what our ancestors actually looked like .
9 ‘ By marrying him , you will have made enemies of women you do not even know , ’ she continued .
10 Although there is no direct evidence on the subject of Richard 's upbringing and education — we do not even know the names of his tutors as we do in his father 's case — it is none the less possible , by using romances and treatises , to reconstruct the type of education which he must have undergone .
11 The girl whom he was to have married vanishes from the pages of history and we do not even know her name .
12 We do not even know whether it was deposited in that great Ptolemaic foundation , the library of Alexandria .
13 I do not even know if I should . ’
14 We do not even know whether the Stoner report will be available to the Select Committee when it begins to sit .
15 In some cases , I do not even know what my own opinion is .
16 No access to the Internet can leave you on the outside looking in , ignorance of the Internet means you do not even know there is a window on this information world .
17 And yet , you do not even know his full name . ’
18 Although we do not presently know the functional in vivo sites for pou[c] binding , the results reported here strongly suggest that these sites should be related to the TAATGARAT- and/or degenerate octamer-TAATGA motifs rather than the canonical octamer motif .
19 The horizontal love scenes , which now ‘ educate ’ any teenyboppers who do not already know the facts of life , would have earned instant dismissal in his day .
20 An intensive course in Russian is provided for those who do not already know the language .
21 ‘ This place tells us nothing that we do not already know , ’ said Holmes .
22 We do not yet know what we fight for .
23 She disagrees with Leach 's statement that ‘ two-year-olds can not be good or naughty on purpose because they do not yet know right from wrong or understand what makes the difference ’ .
24 I 'm afraid that the answer to most of their questions is : ‘ We do not yet know . ’ '
25 I do not yet know in what form this particular section will be published , whether as a foreword or as an interpolation into the body of my work , but I can begin to see that even here I can make something triumphant out of necessity .
26 We do not yet know how good a Prime Minister he is .
27 We do not yet know to what extent chimps use their potential in the wild .
28 We do not yet know whether this can happen , but we could not risk invalidating the experiment by using a sexually experienced woman .
29 Other seed baits I have used successfully on the Severn are tares and maple peas , but I have not used the latter two very often and do not yet know if they are going to be consistently successful .
30 This can be an expensive way of producing local history studies — especially if a duplicate copy is made for the county record office — and we do not yet know how long video film can be stored before it deteriorates .
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