Example sentences of "know how [art] " in BNC.

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1 When you 've had an industrialist as a father and you know how a business works , you ca n't expect farmers to ignore every business principle to be Green .
2 ‘ We know how a building works on a shake table .
3 Make sure you know how a piece of jewellery is intended to be worn .
4 Perhaps they know how a guitarist 's mind works : the more daunting something is , the more they want it .
5 When I know how a lustful man may feel towards his neighbour 's pretty young wife I can understand a leer , but if asked what it means there is nothing I can say .
6 ‘ But you know how a stubbed toe hurts .
7 The few cases where we know how a girl entered the trade show a mixture of influences .
8 I mean you know how a lot of , a lot of these stories end , and the moral of the story is , etcetera , etcetera , etcetera !
9 You know how a contact can be lost . ’
10 Not know how a woman could suffer !
11 You know how a man can say nothing and you hear it all over the house for weeks ?
12 ‘ Now it 's your turn , ’ he said , ‘ although I suspect I know how a woman gets to be an international model .
13 I know how a basic computer works I think .
14 But you know how every dream
15 I know how the funicular is operating .
16 ‘ Now you know how the average rail customer feels . ’
17 It is almost true to say that we know how the genetic program determines the shape of a ribosome .
18 We now know how the causal effect works : poor jobs lead to more stress-related disorders , and these in turn lead to absence from work .
19 Though pharmacologists now know how the present antimalarials work , quinine was initially based on a folk remedy and the rest were developed by producing chemicals and testing their effects .
20 He knew more than most : the stores and the munitions are locked , and only the Genoese in the castle know how the supplies really go .
21 With Elton , the joy of it is that at least you 're quite familiar with a lot of the stuff , and even if you have n't actually sat down and worked through it you know how the songs go .
22 ‘ But you never know how the gig 's going to go .
23 The short answer to this question is that we do not know how homoeopathic remedies work any more than we know how the majority of orthodox pharmaceuticals work .
24 But the shares are a high risk for investors because you never know how the clubs will perform .
25 None know how the struggle will end .
26 This is coming dangerously close to saying that we can not find out how the brain works until we know how the brain works !
27 You know how the other journalists take the mickey occasionally , ’ I suggested .
28 All of us know how the police and traffic wardens behave , whether or not we actually know police or traffic wardens .
29 When they know how the pen will respond they no longer need to think about it , and will eventually be unaware of skilful minor corrective movements .
30 We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion .
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