Example sentences of "[noun sg] do not know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot did not know what Psalms were , but she felt she was beginning to understand about quiet and gentle greenness because she saw it all around her . |
| 2 | Chief executive Mr Richard Sutherland said the partners at the practice did not know he had worked as a locum at Bolton Royal Infirmary and the doctor had not told the infirmary he was HIV positive . |
| 3 | Yet , according to French sources , when François Mitterrand complained about the tone of Mr Bartholomew 's warnings at his recent meeting with President Bush on Martinique , the American president did not know what had been going on . |
| 4 | more reluctant to so infer , particularly where the applicant did not know of his right to object at that stage . |
| 5 | It is irrelevant that the defendant did not know that the brochure had been read ( i.e. that the false statement had been made ) . |
| 6 | In the case of innocent infringement ( if the defendant did not know and had no reason to believe that the semiconductor design right subsisted in the article ) damages are not available although other remedies may be , such as an account of profits . |
| 7 | Under the special defence , the issue is whether the defendant did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have discovered , the false trade description . |
| 8 | The requirements upon issue are : ( 1 ) filing by the applicant of the originating application ( N312 ) , a copy of each named respondent and two further copies ; ( 2 ) an affidavit in support with the same number of copies for service ; the affidavit should state : ( a ) the applicant 's interest in the land ; ( b ) the circumstances in which the land has been occupied without licence or consent and in which his claim to possession arises ; and ( c ) if it be that the name of any person occupying the land is not stated in the originating application , that the applicant does not know the name of such person . |
| 9 | The problem is that the president does not know how to implement ‘ change in the appropriate way ’ . |
| 10 | As ESM equipment does not send out any signals of its own , an enemy does not know that its radar emissions have been detected . |
| 11 | The bachelor did not know the little family , and he did not want to know them . |
| 12 | Er , I understand there was problem because of the computer breakdown which caused a certain record to be lost but then I discover that there is no copy of man manual copy of orders sent to the contractors for repairs kept so that having lost the computer record the council do not know what lights have been reported to contractor for repair and then find out the basic clients |
| 13 | It is a pity the council do not know . ’ |
| 14 | If a child did not know what to make of this question Piaget would prompt him : ‘ When you walk , you walk with feet ; well then , when you think , what do you think with ? ’ |
| 15 | Until an alleged audit failure is investigated , the Institute does not know whether there has been negligence . |
| 16 | The hon. Lady does not know what she is talking about . |
| 17 | Anatoly Kornienko , first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party ( CP ) committee in Kiev city and the first speaker after Gorbachev , complained that the platform had no ideological foundation and gave the impression that " the central committee does not know which way to turn " . |
| 18 | You have all the knowledge , and all the choices are available , and the trouble is that with all this knowledge a child does not know what to do , how to make a decision . |
| 19 | If the child does not know or is too shy to talk a suggestion that ‘ Perhaps mum or dad can remind you ? ’ and encouraging the parents to talk is one way around the problem . |
| 20 | If a child does not know any other black people , he or she does not value them ; all his or her values descend from the adoptive parents . |
| 21 | The Lords in both cases argued that the seller would not have proceeded with the sale , had he known of the lack of authority , but the argument is hypothetical because the seller did not know . |
| 22 | The maître did not know . |
| 23 | In all probability , the author did not know who was responsible for the original compilation : he merely assumed that legislation was an appropriate activity for the founder of a kingdom . |
| 24 | The Collector did not know how the magazine had been blown up but he did not stop to wonder . |
| 25 | ‘ In determining the total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) above , or the liability or total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 2 ) above , no account shall be taken of any liability in respect of a deposit if … ( c ) the institution is a former authorised institution and the deposit was made after it ceased to be an authorised institution or a recognised bank or licensed institution under the Banking Act 1979 unless , at the time the deposit was made , the depositor did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that it had ceased to be an authorised institution , recognised bank or licensed institution . ’ |
| 26 | It is no earthly use appointing a particular officer if the childen do not know how to complain to him or her and can not do so . |
| 27 | If the Vendor does not know what intellectual property rights it should be using , how can the Purchaser ? |
| 28 | If the Vendor does not know what intellectual property rights it should be using , how can the Purchaser ? |
| 29 | If the vendor does not know of the proposed management buy-out , or is aware but has not given approval , then the members of the management team almost certainly risk action against them for breach of their service agreements . |
| 30 | Bedivere does not know what to do when Arthur dies . |