Example sentences of "[indef pn] know [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Under the shadow of the very great crisis ’ , Lyle argued at the North West Ham Conservative Club , ‘ nobody knew what the result might have been ’ : |
| 2 | So I thought I 'd wait a year or two and let people get into the techno thing and get used to being more receptive to what it is , as opposed to what it was in ‘ 86 , when nobody knew what the term was and everybody was scared of technology . |
| 3 | Thomas was sent for tests but nobody knew what the problem was . |
| 4 | Nobody knows what the Nile perch will feed on when the haplochromines have been further reduced in biomass . |
| 5 | ‘ But nobody knows what the long term risks of eating irradiated food will be . |
| 6 | It is in fact something called Mad Meg 's Cairn and nobody knows what the hell it 's doing there . |
| 7 | Mr Major told him : ‘ As a former shadow chancellor , if you do n't know that , until those things are unwound , nobody knows what the figures would be , you should not be sitting where you are . ’ |
| 8 | Erm the answer would be no , they 've got to be sold at sometime and nobody knows what the market is going to do . |
| 9 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 10 | In most cases , on most issues , nobody knows what the president has decided . |
| 11 | Actually it 's a bit of a unorganised chaos nobody knows what the heck they 're doing ! |
| 12 | Well nobody knows what the rooms are like . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's our great local mystery at the moment ; nobody knows who the father is except , perhaps , Cissie , and if she knows she 's not telling . ’ |
| 14 | He , Aragorn and Théoden also state proverbs about freshness , with respectively ‘ Rede oft is found at the rising of the sun ’ , ‘ None knows what the new day shall bring him ’ , and ‘ In the morning counsels are best … ’ |
| 15 | If each family was to have the services of a senior and a junior counsel , the costs would be enormous , and at that stage no one knew what the position would be regarding the question of Legal Aid . |
| 16 | No one knew what the quarrel had been about and no one cared . |
| 17 | It was doubtful , he said , whether the Vietnamese government could succeed without the most generous , if not passionate , French assistance ; and yet how France 's partners within the French Union could evolve had never been defined : indeed no one knew what the French Union meant . |
| 18 | The platform 's motion was easily carried , as amended , though no one knew what the amendment was , and the bulk of the hall filed patiently out in search of cups of tea and a Bath bun . |
| 19 | But no one knows what the biological effects would be on the astronauts undertaking such a trip Christopher Joyce |
| 20 | But no one knows what the biological effects would be on the astronauts undertaking such a trip |
| 21 | Since no one knows what the myc product is , this idea can not be directly tested . |
| 22 | No one knows what the real debts are ( who really owes Bankers Trust their £60m , for instance ? ) , no one knows what the pension fund 's real deficit or obligations are and no one can predict how expensive the inevitable legislation will be . |
| 23 | No one knows what the real debts are ( who really owes Bankers Trust their £60m , for instance ? ) , no one knows what the pension fund 's real deficit or obligations are and no one can predict how expensive the inevitable legislation will be . |
| 24 | Norman added : ‘ I have got to keep fighting as no one knows what the future holds . |
| 25 | Moreover , the notion of corrigibility is itself suspect : strictly speaking , one can only correct an utterance when one knows what the speaker intended to say , and this is not the case with the specially constructed sentences used in semantic analysis . |
| 26 | But he did not find out what was the problem which had brought the jury back into court and it is therefore impossible to tell whether anything said by the judge resolved the problem or not , because no one knows what the problem was . |
| 27 | Perhaps the hon. Member for Cardiff , North agrees with me that , although one knows what the problem is and the damage that it is causing , it is very difficult to get anything done about it . |
| 28 | and what would happen to the programme it would be wrong at this point in time , to accept the paper before one knows what the is of the County Council as a whole will be . |
| 29 | the defence industry is suffering because no one knows what the governmentwants to spend |
| 30 | The whole effect of Biddesden is ravishing , and it matters not that no one knows who the architect was . |