Example sentences of "not know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was uncomfortable enough , knowing she would have to face him , but it was worse not to know when , to wonder if she would turn around suddenly and find him watching her with those cold , cold eyes … |
| 2 | Gettier argued that they show the tripartite account to be insufficient ; it is possible for someone not to know even when all the three clauses are satisfied . |
| 3 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 4 | Manual socio-economic grades were more likely to have favourable views of HP and mail order than people in non-manual grades , and were particularly likely not to know how bank loans or credit cards worked . |
| 5 | One reason why John 's air-taxi service was less than successful was his habit of pretending not to know how to fly the plane or , worse , pretending to have forgotten how to land it once he had succeeded in becoming airborne . |
| 6 | He claimed , for instance , not to know how old he was . |
| 7 | But Ianthe seemed not to know how to answer Sophia 's remark and soon they were on to another topic — the strangers in the parish and whether it was likely that they would come to church . |
| 8 | Why did you pretend not to know how to make a fire , if the outdoors is no novelty to you ? ’ |
| 9 | And I know the scores of an iron crow on stone too well not to know how these frets were made . |
| 10 | It has been said that it is best not to know too much about salami and other sausages , in the same way that ignorance about haggis aids its enjoyment and easy digestion . |
| 11 | In this state it can seem as if there is a drive not to know too much about the other person . |
| 12 | But they did not know beforehand that one of the children they were about to take suffered from asthma . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In such situations we typically do not know beforehand what all the linguistic variants involved actually are , so we must use very careful and accountable methods of selection and analysis . |
| 15 | And as we believe that erm the earth and the sun were formed at the same time , so we 're starting to know a lot more about the original material from which the sun and the earth were formed , and here we find that it 's just full of prebiotic molecules which we did not know beforehand and therefore puts a different perspective on what we think the earth 's early atmosphere might have been . |
| 16 | The wind blows where it wills , and you hear the sound of it but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes . |
| 17 | It is at least possible that he did not know otherwise and that his father was responsible for this fiction , assuring his son that he truly was the child of British parents , though American-born . |
| 18 | We do not know just how much cohesion is necessary for a society to exist , but we know that some cohesion is necessary . |
| 19 | There was only so much she could take , and she did not know just when her breaking-point might come . |
| 20 | ‘ The wreck is important because we do not know just why it was there and how it was sunk ’ , explains Noel . |
| 21 | One can not know completely either the information that was available or the value that should have to be associated with obtaining more information prior to the decision being taken . |
| 22 | What they did not know — and perhaps Mr Desai did not know either — was that urine contains large amounts of melatonin — a chemical secreted by the pineal gland which is involved ( no one knows how ) in setting the body 's natural rhythms . |
| 23 | They also show that when people do not know either the APR or the total credit cost , they can not always sniff out the better-value end of the repayment period scale ( in terms of much lower APR ) simply from the level of the instalment payments offered . |
| 24 | He clearly did not know either . |
| 25 | In any event , knowledge within the firm of the identity of the intermediary 's client may not identify him if the salesman or perhaps the dealer concerned did not know either that the intermediary was acting as intermediary or the identity of the client ; this is a Chinese wall-type question . |
| 26 | It 's interesting that gay men on Switchboard found it much easier to accept that they did n't automatically know best for lesbians than white people on Switchboard find it to accept that they might not know best for Black people . |
| 27 | One minute a well-behaved group of us — writers , intellectuals and so forth — were contentedly watching Zelda Plum dancing with the chinchilla on her head while Ken the Australian Horse Player offered odds ( 'Six to four the rat , ’ he used to say , I do not know why , and on this particular evening the rat escaped and tripped up Robin Fox , London 's most distinguished theatrical agent , who fell on top of Wales 's friend , the actress Susan George ) and the next a squad of hooligans were pushing people around and conjuring a piece of pot from Mrs Mouse 's sewing basket . |
| 28 | She did not know why she had come . |
| 29 | She did not know why she was crying . |
| 30 | The clash came as Mr Kinnock exploited the apparent contradiction between Mrs Thatcher 's claim that she did not know why Mr Lawson resigned and the former Chancellor 's assertion in last Sunday 's Walden interview that he had made it quite clear to the Prime Minister that Sir Alan Walter 's continued presence as her economic adviser was the only issue . |