Example sentences of "[adv] know [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But if one is dealing with anything other than empirical knowledge of this kind — if , in short , one does not personally know in the sense just explained — the only honest thing one can say is that one does not know .
2 ‘ Stiff knee , ’ he said , watching for obstacles he might only know about by walking into them .
3 There are other outlets , if you want to learn the media game , in terms of speech and view , as it were , hospital radio , I do n't know whether you have any hospitals in your region but increasingly hospital radio offers an opportunity and a challenge , and welcomes people who would like to try their hand at becoming sort of D.J.s , or features editors , or are prepared to talk interestingly about subjects , and this you would only know from a local point of view .
4 What this meal means in real terms is a member does n't necessarily know for sure why they have lost .
5 The haulier will not necessarily know from week to week what products are to be transported — if any — but must have a range of vehicles available to cover all eventualities .
6 The lists are outside and the the venues , and please take the opportunity during the lunch-break to make contact with your , to make contact with your Chair of Electoral Colleges , your Chairs , er , especially those perhaps , who are new members , the Chairs on their name-tag have a red star , and I think you will all know from the resolution this morning , who are the new Chairs , if they , if they have changed .
7 Just before we go we are going to hear a recording of a song that 's been referred to which I think is called the greatest love of all which I 'm told we 'll all know by heart er this time next year hmm erm anyway on that note if I may thank you very , very much indeed and I leave you with best wishes for a highly , highly successful birthday year .
8 In general elections we , we do n't normally know for sure until a few weeks beforehand what the date of the election is going to be .
9 All will want something different , and the only way to help everyone , whatever they might already know about roses , is to start at the beginning .
10 Paradoxically , if such a person were to fail to give notice , he might then be said to be committing an offence even though , because of the hypothesised publicity , it is most unlikely that the police will not already know about his proposed march .
11 How much do you already know about it ? "
12 ‘ What can any manager in Scotland try that others wo n't already know about ? ’ says Walter Smith .
13 There may be yet more complicated objects than us on other planets , and some of them may already know about us .
14 Extending these ideas , there have also been suggestions from socio-cultural anthropologists who have a leaning towards sociobiology , that , although the details of customs and moral rules and relational behaviours have to be learned afresh by each individual they are matters of culture — we may already know in advance how to organize such conventions into structured patterns by virtue of a genetically endowed predisposition to become enculturated .
15 I must tell you , if you do n't already know from the newspapers , that he is cared for by a most responsive nurse who has been enabled by hormone therapy to breast feed him .
16 Thus , the work of Fama et al on the significance of scrip issues indicated that the issues themselves did not tell the market anything it did not already know from its analysis of the company 's performance during the 30 months before the split .
17 And does Armitage somehow know about their affair ?
18 ‘ You can not possibly know to what I am referring . ’
19 I 'm not blaming her , it is n't her fault , locked away up there , miles from anywhere but , I ask you , Constance , what can she possibly know about the realities of life in 1945 ?
20 How can the researcher possibly know in advance what the important questions are ?
21 Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing .
22 That such insights are available to gay people ( whether we are writers or not ) should come as no surprise — from birth we are relentlessly socialized into a heterosexual identity that we may later choose to reject but which remains an always familiar landscape — those on the margins of a culture know more about its centre than the centre can ever know about the margins .
23 Between zabaglione and coffee she said , ‘ Did you ever know about Jeanne Kennedy ? ’
24 Many more than either you or I will ever know about .
25 I wonder if anyone will ever know about the emptiness of my life .
26 For the vast majority of people , who have no conception of good design , the images and logos of advertising are all they 'll ever know of art .
27 You could say , all they 'll ever know of beauty .
28 No one will ever know for sure .
29 Nobody will ever know for sure how much Ken tried to rid himself of the camp , ‘ Carry On ’ image .
30 ‘ But I doubt I 'll ever know for sure because I 'll never see her again and only by coming face to face with her will I know the truth . ’
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