Example sentences of "[not/n't] know [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What kind of fool do you think me , not to know what 's closest to your heart ? ’ |
| 2 | In the Epilogue to his great biography of Adolf Hitler , Alan Bullock comments : ‘ The Germans , however , were not the only people who preferred in the 1930s not to know what was happening ad refused to call evil things by their true names . ’ |
| 3 | It must have been hard for her — uprooted and transported to a strange country — not to know what was happening to her and her mother , apart from the fact that somehow or other they 'd been able to join up again with the father . |
| 4 | As it happened , Clara was wrong , but she was not to know she was wrong , and she suffered as much as though she had been right . |
| 5 | It 's certainly the case that I appear to be hitched up with Tod like this , but he 's not to know I 'm here . |
| 6 | She 's not to know I was supposed to catch yesterday 's plane . ’ |
| 7 | Ought they not to know who is right ? |
| 8 | If you do not know they are there , or if you do not know where they are , you will miss them . |
| 9 | Although such a statement is transparently obvious , as we have demonstrated earlier there are a vast number of crimes where people do not know they are victims , such as minor thefts , and many white-collar crimes . |
| 10 | The computer industry has only recently realised that , on the whole , ordinary people do not like computers and are only comfortable using them when they do not know they are doing so . |
| 11 | In a study by Taylor of library guides in London polytechnic libraries she found that the users often did not read them because they did not know they were there . |
| 12 | Small numbers were imported into Europe years ago , but I did not know they were available again . |
| 13 | ‘ I did not know they were going . |
| 14 | But they did not know they were to be presented with tickets to whisk two people off to Claridge 's . |
| 15 | They were sold at the New Caledonian Market in Southwark during the half light before sunrise to an art dealer who did not know they were stolen . |
| 16 | Some outstations were so far out of the way , the public did not know they were there , said Prestatyn Coun Richard Edwards . |
| 17 | I certainly did not know they were counterfeits . ’ |
| 18 | But as the London Food Commission points out : ‘ The problem for consumers at the moment is that they do not know which are the PVC clingfilms . |
| 19 | There were two bridges over the R. Dovey ; I do not know which was the one whose state of disrepair forced the closure . |
| 20 | And I do not know of any other argument , not relying on PC k , which Nozick could use to show that we do not know we are not brains in a vat without showing that we do not know most other things either . |
| 21 | Stroud ( 1984 , ch. 2 ) considers a similar argument against the sceptic 's attempt to generalize from the fact that we do not know we are not brains in a vat . |
| 22 | Did you not know we were here ? ’ |
| 23 | The postal service was rather vague in these remote villages , and perhaps a letter had gone astray , for when we arrived at what we thought would be our host 's house , we found that the old perpetua did not know we were coming . |
| 24 | ‘ I do not know what 's wrong with it ! ’ she gritted . |
| 25 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
| 26 | So far we do not know what is going to happen about this . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If this is not direct political control of a broadcasting network I do not know what is , ’ he said . |
| 28 | I do not know what is wrong but I do n't feel right ’ , he said . |
| 29 | If that is not over the score I do not know what is . |
| 30 | They also do not know what is going on or what to do next . |