Example sentences of "not know [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many seemed not to know what the knives and forks were for and took the napkins for handkerchiefs . |
| 2 | If you do not know what a tree or shrub is , exercise clemency and give it a year 's grace to demonstrate its worth before you turn it over to the axeman . |
| 3 | He does not know what a hyena can do to a human body . ’ |
| 4 | This is grievous news , grievous not only for this and other universities but for the nation ; for it is a grave national misfortune to be governed by those who do not know what a university is and what distinguishes it from other institutions of learning and study , not to mention training . |
| 5 | He was our college barber ; and at a time when most of us were penniless he cut hair for a shilling ( = 5p , to those who do not know what a shilling was ) . |
| 6 | ( Some , in this less heroic age , may not know what a Guest Tea was . |
| 7 | These eagles would not know what a zoo was , or believe that he had escaped from one in a place where no eagles lived naturally . |
| 8 | Alain did not know what a shock it had been to be dragged up those stairs and to find a room like a small time capsule , the very essence of the man she had not known still lingering there . |
| 9 | The problem is that without measuring the heights , and their frequency , of all adult males we will not know what a representative sample would be . |
| 10 | He may not know what a lying , idle little slummock he 's taken under his wing . ’ |
| 11 | We do not know what a lightly regulated market will bring . |
| 12 | The wise man in Proverbs twenty seven , he says , do not boast about tomorrow for you do not know what a day may bring forth . |
| 13 | Military privilege was undefined ; civilians did not know what an officer was entitled to , what they could safely refuse , what belonged to the armed forces , and what claims were backed only by an officer 's pretensions . |
| 14 | One could not know what an experience was like without knowing whether it was pleasurable or not , but one could know what it was like without recognizing its value , even though this follows necessarily from its being like just what it was . |
| 15 | One can not know what an adjective is being applied to just by considering its lexical meaning : the support of an adjective is defined by something outside the adjective 's own lexical content . |
| 16 | Perhaps the English do not know what an immense treasure they possess in having maintained the choral tradition in colleges and churches , since it provides an unsurpassable musical training , an important number of truly fine choirs , and , finally , the possibility to experience ( and for the listener , to enjoy ) repertories that the long-suffering Spanish enthusiast scarcely knows since they are not performed [ in Spain ] . |
| 17 | I do not know what the sensuality of a man is . |
| 18 | I have a car badge belonging to the 159 Motor Club but do not know what the club is , or was , and have been unable to find out . |
| 19 | The captain did not know what the craft was carrying , though that was not unusual , and the line was under contract partly for its discretion . |
| 20 | JOHN SMITH is preparing to launch the biggest tax assault ever on middle income families while claiming that he does not know what the effect of his tax hike will be on incentives , confidence or on the economy . |
| 21 | So instead they hedge their comments and the end result is the person being appraised still does not know what the organization thinks of them . |
| 22 | Perhaps the right hand , in the shape of Kenneth Baker , does not know what the left-hand , in the shape of the present health minister , Norman Fowler is up to ? |
| 23 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
| 24 | It 's no excuse that the salesman did not know what the customer planned to do with the recorder , even if it is labelled with a warning about not taping copyright records or films . |
| 25 | I do not know what the Anglo-Saxons called a rabbit , a candidate for description , I should have thought . |
| 26 | She did not know what the message was : Lee in this state was no longer a lovelorn friend but a trauma . |
| 27 | If you do not know what the true variable costs are , how can you make correct decisions ? |
| 28 | At first Dinah did not understand ; the way he talked was strange to her , and in any case she did not know what the term meant . |
| 29 | Geoffrey Robertson , QC for Mr Henderson , told the judge after the acquittals : ‘ The prosecution was brought by one hand of the Government which did not know what the other hand was doing . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I do not know what the outcome will be as there are an awful lot of issues which are unclear . |