Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The haulier will not necessarily know from week to week what products are to be transported — if any — but must have a range of vehicles available to cover all eventualities . |
| 2 | But if one is dealing with anything other than empirical knowledge of this kind — if , in short , one does not personally know in the sense just explained — the only honest thing one can say is that one does not know . |
| 3 | Paradoxically , if such a person were to fail to give notice , he might then be said to be committing an offence even though , because of the hypothesised publicity , it is most unlikely that the police will not already know about his proposed march . |
| 4 | Thus , the work of Fama et al on the significance of scrip issues indicated that the issues themselves did not tell the market anything it did not already know from its analysis of the company 's performance during the 30 months before the split . |
| 5 | ‘ You can not possibly know to what I am referring . ’ |
| 6 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 7 | Often , the manufacturers do not even know to what extent their equipment will stand up to RFI . |
| 8 | Many consumers did not even know of the charge until after the winter of 1948/9 when it was imposed ; because of cyclic meter reading , many received their winter bills only as the charge was lowered ; and some were never surcharged at all . |
| 9 | I reject the argument put forward both by Mr. Beloff and Mr. Philipson that the Bank of England will suffer no ‘ inconvenience ’ if they have to apply to vary an injunction before they can set the section 39 process in motion ; in most cases they will probably not even know of the existence of an injunction until after the notice is served ; and it is idle to suggest that , once this present case is decided , no similar points to those taken here by the plaintiffs will be raised in future . |
| 10 | To this end , we urge you not only to use the Line yourself for shopping , sightseeing etc. , but also to encourage your friends , acquaintances , neighbours and relatives , who may not even know of the existence of the Line , to use it . |
| 11 | She frequently waited for the King outside Buckingham Palace , even though he did not even know of her existence . |
| 12 | They may not even know of the bogs . ’ |
| 13 | And some who did not even know of the movie 's existence , who were not even born when it was made , are dead too , or mutilated , or orphaned … |
| 14 | A recent survey showed that over 40% of patients did not even know about the NHS reforms , let alone fundholding . |
| 15 | No doubt Angelina Langham , the upstart , did not even know about Thomas 's delicate stomach . |
| 16 | I was in favour of a world religion — an all-enfolding religion rejecting no one , but I did not then know of a church or religion which would include all men . |
| 17 | We do not yet know to what extent chimps use their potential in the wild . |
| 18 | When he gets to Iona , Johnson will walk for the second time in footsteps he does not yet know about , those of the man who caused the folklore — Columba was here . |
| 19 | I do not yet know in what form this particular section will be published , whether as a foreword or as an interpolation into the body of my work , but I can begin to see that even here I can make something triumphant out of necessity . |
| 20 | We do not therefore know at this stage whether the station will meet the Government 's investment criteria . ’ |
| 21 | What this meal means in real terms is a member does n't necessarily know for sure why they have lost . |
| 22 | ‘ What can any manager in Scotland try that others wo n't already know about ? ’ says Walter Smith . |
| 23 | I must tell you , if you do n't already know from the newspapers , that he is cared for by a most responsive nurse who has been enabled by hormone therapy to breast feed him . |
| 24 | In general elections we , we do n't normally know for sure until a few weeks beforehand what the date of the election is going to be . |
| 25 | And as , as we said before , erm , many of the , erm people who lived in the poorer parts of erm the country , whether in urban or rural En erm England did n't really know about basic nutrition and and health I mean you just ate what was available but you did n't know why and so the government started this campaign to introduce you know knowledge about diet and how important it was . |
| 26 | She [ mother ] did n't really know about it until one day the doctor came here and … she said … |
| 27 | She did n't really know about that . |
| 28 | ‘ You mean , you do n't really know at all ? ’ |
| 29 | And that 's something we must do before the next meeting so that I can answer the questions , cos we do n't really know at this moment . |
| 30 | Erm , I do n't really know at the moment , I got ta look up and see what it needs , like and things to do and study , things like that . |