Example sentences of "[noun pl] do [not/n't] know " in BNC.

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1 On the more nebulous issue of value for money of George Street Research said there was clear evidence , of which the opening quotation forms only a part , that clients do not know what goes into a piece of legal work to justify the fee , other than the fact that the job is done .
2 too disputed the view that all clients see lawyers as compartmentalised individuals , ‘ although I do know people who use specific lawyers for specific areas and our own recent market research has confirmed my own view that a number of our clients do n't know the full depth of service we have on offer ’ .
3 When this happens , the parties do not know and have no opportunity to address the judge on the matter .
4 The vice of uncertainty in relation to the duration of a term is that the parties do not know where they stand .
5 I used to help with sticking the the er money onto the well this used to take about , you know , an hour all these kids did n't know what two pence was , did n't know what twenty pence was and ten pence and fifty pence and then we , they were in go about groups of seven and we get all this done then it would be assembly , then it 'll be games and then that 'll be it for the whole morning !
6 Unfortunately the authors do not know of any existing Green oil painting .
7 But they ca n't see trains coming and drivers do n't know there is anyone inside the box .
8 But what the rest of the candidates did not know was that Pilger had already earmarked someone for the job — the man who had gatecrashed the capitalization-day party — Keith Sutton of the Wapping Post .
9 If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " .
10 Inspectors did n't know ;
11 Do n't never think animals do n't know . ’
12 The girls said some of them were on the pill , others were n't because their mams and dads do n't know and they dare n't go to the family planning clinic .
13 The zeks did not know of the bitter trial of the breakdown .
14 American kids do n't know that stuff now though , surely …
15 Today 's kids do n't know who they are .
16 He said huskily , ‘ The kids do n't know .
17 the shopkeepers did n't know what to do with theirself .
18 The parents do not know what to expect of you and you do n't know what to expect of them .
19 If the parents do not know what has happened they should either not interfere in the upset or equally attribute blame knowing that a row can not happen without two parties being involved .
20 At the moment , experts are not very helpful , since they tend to disagree among themselves , or to hedge their conclusions around with so many qualifications that parents do n't know how to apply them to their individual child .
21 Two girls are born , one in Poland , one in France : their parents do n't know each other , there is no connection whatsoever between the two families , but the girls grow up identical in appearance , nature and character .
22 You ca n't tell me their parents do n't know who they are .
23 The parents do n't know .
24 The engineers did not know ; they could give no intelligible reply .
25 The parents did n't know then that a List D school was considered suitable for their son .
26 Here they grow tomatoes and lettuce to provide valuable nutrients and at the same time they 're learning to grow vegetables in a way their parents did n't know how .
27 Then of course , then when they the kids went up , did n't know where they were going , and the parents did n't know but they found new found freedom because all the bloody kids had gone to the countryside
28 Alice 's parents did n't know about toxic shock , and the fact it could be related to using a tampon , but also the parents of some other children , other women did n't know either .
29 In support of this contention he quotes research done by Thorpe , who found in a study of long-term foster-children that only 27 per cent had contact with their parents every six months or more frequently and that over 60 per cent of natural parents did not know where their children were living , with only 21 per cent feeling encouraged by their social worker to maintain contact .
30 Her parents did not know which guest house among the thousands in the resort Nicola had stayed in .
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