Example sentences of "[pers pn] be not to know that " in BNC.

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1 Yes very , you know , so I mean I 'm not to know that he 'd not already told somebody else .
2 She was not to know that , once at sea , they would only be allowed on deck at certain times , like dogs let out to exercise .
3 Her will included legacies of twenty pounds each to her Frome cousins , Mary and Sarah , the daughters of her uncle John Titford ; she was not to know that Mary would die just two months before she did , though Sarah , as we shall see , survived for another five years , long enough to bless the generosity of her Surrey cousin .
4 She was not to know that Tina , sticking to her principles , had long ago slept with her cousin Jarvis .
5 But she was not to know that he had had this desire , and went into the house with head bent , feeling that she had been a failure .
6 We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial .
7 If in addition promises were made , as it seems they were , of helping to boost wage rates , and if particular grievances were also thrown into the package , it is not necessarily paradoxical that women should have agreed both to the five-year ban on entry ( they were not to know that it would really be a permanent one ) and to the assigning of all new machines to men .
8 ( He was not to know that Charles Olson , after next to no apprenticeship at all , would recklessly try to emulate him . )
9 He was not to know that because she never spoke about her feelings , she could not express them on demand .
10 He was not to know that a real fear was beginning to overwhelm Sally-Anne .
11 He was not to know that those pictures appalled her , that she had never imagined herself capable of such thoughts .
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