Example sentences of "know [conj] [pron] [is] not [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Do n't you know that there is n't a bus till dawn ? ’ he rasped .
2 He should know that it is not the Government who take action in these matters , but the Attorney-General .
3 Scandalmongers will be disappointed to know that it is not the prostitutes which I have in mind here , rather the fact that this little thing called Amendment 27 to the Maastricht bill is also receiving such a chorus of anticipation .
4 " Give him three ounces of this immediately in a pint of water , then follow it with one and a half ounces night and morning and let us know if he is n't a lot better in two days . "
5 erm you can hybridize these two , you can second generations , backcrosses and so on , the analysis has been made , and we know that there is n't a single large gene producing that effect — we know that there are quite a number of genes of reasonably small effect , we do n't know exactly how many but certainly it does n't look like a hopeful monster .
6 Therefore I know that it is not a matter of you using good sense in rejecting advances from young men because you would soon be parted from them .
7 Local accountability has gone out of the window ; Ministers no longer even talk about it , because they know that it is not a reality .
8 The natives know that it is not the actual paintings in the caves that activate the Kurunba but the rocks on which they are drawn ; the rocks being imbued with the ‘ spirit ’ of the entities depicted .
9 ‘ In our party we know that it is not the State that builds the success of a Nation .
10 We also incidentally know that it is not the beginning ( although that , being known in advance by participants , is not part of what is communicated ) , because there is no token of a conversational opening ( like hello ) , and the particle so with which utterance ( i ) begins has the function of tying the present utterance back to prior utterances .
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