Example sentences of "do not know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not know even today whether or not this is the case , but Pons certainly felt very strongly that it should be lithium deuteroxide , LiOD . |
| 2 | If you do not know they are there , or if you do not know where they are , you will miss them . |
| 3 | I do not know where they get these dogs . |
| 4 | ‘ I do not know where my wife is , I only wish I did , ’ Carter was replying to the constable 's question . |
| 5 | If you really do not know where you were or what you were doing , begin by imagining the object itself . |
| 6 | Even in your decisions , you find you are often in turmoil and do not know where to turn . |
| 7 | I really do not know where Mrs Fawcett found the energy to do what she did . |
| 8 | I do not know where Henry Green picked up the erroneous information that Ivy had been a governess , but thinking of some of her sibylline utterances it was tempting to imagine her as a royal and imperial governess at Thebes and Mycenae . |
| 9 | Take Bart 's away and I do not know where the patients would go . |
| 10 | Muon catalysed fusion may be only one miracle short of practical realisation , but as yet we do not know where that miracle will come from , nor even whether it exists . |
| 11 | Children may learn to pass urine and faeces in it but accidents will still happen when they are preoccupied in play or are in a place where they do not know where the lavatory is . |
| 12 | Most are difficult to trace ; their names are apt to be commonplace and we do not know where to commence looking for them . |
| 13 | We do not know where he went to next , nor whether Richard was still with him . |
| 14 | His uncertainty principle ( discussed in detail in Chapter 5 ) says that if I know where an electron is I have no idea of what it is doing and , conversely , if I know what it is doing I do not know where it is . |
| 15 | They do not know where the money is ‘ invested ’ , whether in British enterprises or overseas , in speculation on property or ‘ art treasures ’ , or in lending to the government to finance unemployment . |
| 16 | If you do not know where your subject is located , use the index volumes 41–42 to the 3rd edition and the index to such of the volumes of the 4th edition as have been published . |
| 17 | If you change course later on in the essay , it will be obvious that you do not know where you are going or that you have not planned your essay with enough care . |
| 18 | It is his mysterious wind , which man can not get under his own tidy control : as Nicodemus was reminded by Jesus , ‘ The wind ( pneuma ) blows where it will , and you hear its sound but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going . |
| 19 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |
| 20 | I really do not know where the hon. Gentleman found the ’ 44 ’ figure . |
| 21 | I do not know where all the Labour Back-Bench Members , supposedly so angry about the Bill , can have gone . |
| 22 | After his speech today , we still do not know where he stands on that matter — not on the draft to which he was referring but on the principle of extended majority voting . |
| 23 | We certainly do not know where he stands today . |
| 24 | The explanation is that you lack control or feel at the end of the stick , and the reason is that you do not know where the end is . |
| 25 | What the three thousand four hundred are saying is that the County Council and British Coal do not know where they 're going with this thing , the full implications of it have either not been properly assessed or indeed not been released to the to the local communities . |
| 26 | Who can be surprised that ordinary people do not know where they stand ? |
| 27 | The vice of uncertainty in relation to the duration of a term is that the parties do not know where they stand . |
| 28 | ‘ If you do not know where you are then you 're quite likely to wander on to something you can not cope with . ’ |
| 29 | Police do not know where she went . |
| 30 | One is believed to live in England , the other abroad , although police do not know where . |