Example sentences of "[adv] know the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The client who claimed he would rather know the truth was usually the type who would not . |
| 2 | Very , very soon the secret of life would be revealed , and Ruth would rather know the secret of death . |
| 3 | I 'd rather know the truth . |
| 4 | Those who seek to follow Jesus Christ , and in doing so to know the power and purpose of God in their lives , are called to a life of transformation . |
| 5 | In the tradition of Advaita or non-Dualism he refers to the soul , ( Ātman ) , and God , ( Brahman ) , as knowers rather than objects of knowledge and claims that it is not possible for mortal beings by the use of reason alone to know the knower of knowing . |
| 6 | And the smartly dressed sales staff who swarm like pilot fish around shoppers are expected not only to know the names of regulars but also their sizes and colour preferences . |
| 7 | Her letter asked : ‘ Do you personally know the origin of your surname and what is it like being called ‘ Dudley Fishburn ’ ? ’ . |
| 8 | We will only know the answer to this and many other questions when televising has continued for a much longer time . |
| 9 | We can only know the truth about ourselves from an outside source . |
| 10 | You need only know the first , who is Alex Raneleigh , based in Brussels . |
| 11 | The customer must not only know the protections he is giving up ( see ( 2 ) below ) but must also be aware of the effect of giving them up ; ( 2 ) The firm has given him a clear written warning of the private customer protections he will lose ; all the main protections must be listed ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) and not just those specified by SFA itself in its guidance . |
| 12 | Applicants do not necessarily know the relative lengths of queues or their chances of obtaining housing in one sub-district rather than another . |
| 13 | Jakobson 's answer to this argument is , however , a powerful one : all users of a language must necessarily know the system of categories into which its different elements are divided , even if only unconsciously ; and his analysis of poetry does not claim to represent what goes on in the reader 's mind , but to account for the special effect which the poetry , for reasons of which he may well be unaware , exercises on him . |
| 14 | You 'd better know the theory and the practice of the venue 's fire regulations . |
| 15 | ‘ Since I am like to be murdered for it , I had better know the tune ! ’ |
| 16 | I 've faced Willie often enough to know the meaning of pain . |
| 17 | He was certainly clever enough and wise enough to know the risk he was taking and yet he took it . |
| 18 | As a small band , we were united in the struggle : and we were all poor enough to know the horrors of freedom in democracy . |
| 19 | I have been a manager long enough to know the fans only look on me as a punch bag , constantly on the end of the verbal one-two . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been here long enough to know the colours of the underground , darling . ’ |
| 21 | I can see the land is in good heart , and I remember enough to know the extent of the estates . |
| 22 | Even if that does not happen — I am realistic enough to know the vagaries of elections — the legislation will not be implemented in the form in which the House is discussing it tonight . |
| 23 | Does n't she think I 'm old enough to know the truth ? ’ |
| 24 | The person concerned will obviously know the time and property concerned . |
| 25 | Erm we more or less know the young the young thug element as such . |
| 26 | My world of science is so much richer than theirs , because I not only know the systematic names , but I am also fluent in the trivial ones , the scientific nicknames which allow us to chat about science over coffee . |
| 27 | But if we only know the bell according to those systems we call logic or science , then we can only talk about bells . |
| 28 | ‘ But I only know the songs I sing at school , ’ I told her warily . |
| 29 | In between the two mosques , in the great arc of roofs and terraces which surmounted the houses of Shahjehanabad , I saw for the first time that secret Delhi which lies hidden from those who only know the city from ground level . |
| 30 | As compared with the more usual situation in which we only know the activity of people over a short period , such data raise some challenging statistical and econometric problems . |