Example sentences of "not know [adv] [pron] [is] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The result of all this is that because of the divergence of Belfast English from other varieties and the internal divergence within it , we do not know beforehand what is the correct lexical input to any phonological variable , we do not necessarily know what the variants of the variable are , and we may not be at all certain about what precisely might count as a variable . |
| 2 | The cat will see a bird and pursue it , to that extent knowing what it wants ; but it will not know why it is doing it , and to that extent what it is doing . |
| 3 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 4 | Jim Knox , an Oldham director , says that the club have fulfilled their financial obligations to Round and do not know why he is behaving in this way . |
| 5 | He does not know why he is like this . |
| 6 | And walks around in the darkness , he does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded him . |
| 7 | This solution might be acceptable if the Vendor is prepared to take some responsibility for the accuracy of the management accounts — because otherwise the Purchaser will not know where he is |
| 8 | His uncertainty principle ( discussed in detail in Chapter 5 ) says that if I know where an electron is I have no idea of what it is doing and , conversely , if I know what it is doing I do not know where it is . |
| 9 | Then even the moth will not know where it is going : and the most effective means of confusing someone else about where you are going is not to know yourself . ) |
| 10 | But a reply of no would be an invitation to A to explain why she is looking for Ann , or why she does not know where she is . |
| 11 | If you do not know exactly what is going to happen it is well to keep your options open . |
| 12 | ‘ Ah , ’ said Halema , with her eyes laughing , ‘ she does not know how she is protected by our prayers from Boudariah . ’ |
| 13 | ONE IN 50 Britons suffers from sugar diabetes and , despite 100 years of scientific study , we still do not know how it is caused . |
| 14 | ‘ Non , Mr Multhrop , I do not know how it is . |
| 15 | The health authority is entitled to object and does object to being subject to an order of the court with penal consequences in the event of disobedience when it does not know precisely what is required of it . |
| 16 | Sometimes he just wanders off for days on end — we get frantic , not knowing where he is . |
| 17 | It 's with not knowing how one is that one has to go to the banks and so on . |