Example sentences of "[adv] know [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I personally know of a foreign company planning to establish a factory and recruit a thousand staff in Britain . |
| 3 | In Dresden , long known for a softer line than elsewhere , the Mayor , Wolfgang Berghofer , announced after talks with 20 church and New Forum opposition activists that he was willing to discuss their nine-point proposal , and release anyone arrested who was not accused of violence within 24 hours . |
| 4 | This opposition became more acute when , in 1813 , the liberated areas , where a modern administration was only known as a French imposition , came within the new constitution . |
| 5 | Thereafter he became better known as a forensic scientist achieving such professional distinctions as presidency of the Medico-Legal Society and of the Forensic Science Society ( of which Grant was a founder member and secretary ) . |
| 6 | He was better known as a spirited champion of atheism , so many people do not realize that he believed in God until he was eighteen . |
| 7 | In April and May of this year , the Junior Minister of Health , in April Tom announced from the shared platform with David , the Tory MP for Havant , but better known as a leading member of the Tory think tank , that regulations had been lifted to allow private capital to have free access to the N H S. |
| 8 | Although I realise that he can not know of a particular incident that has been drawn to my attention today , is he aware that information has been sent to deceased claimants , thus causing a great deal of distress to the families concerned ? |
| 9 | They included the pop singer Lyn Paul , best known as a former member of the New Seekers , dancer Jane Summerhayes , who appeared on the London stage in A Chorus Line , his secretary Jo-Anne Robinson , another dancer , who was in the musical Billy with him , and dancer Jane Watts , who appeared in Barnum . |
| 10 | Meades is best known as a supercilious architecture and restaurant critic , and his prose is richer than foie gras with chocolate sauce . ’ |
| 11 | Thereafter he was a schoolmaster at Worksop College , but was best known as a fast bowler for Essex and England . |
| 12 | But curiously , as in Roman days , diamond is still best known as a Mystical symbol : as a symbol of everlasting love . |
| 13 | The Shah was not known as a great listener — not as least to Iranians . |
| 14 | Methodically , he replaced the screwdriver in a toolbox in the garden shed , though he was not known as a tidy man . |
| 15 | This will depend upon the purpose of the assessment and how much is already known about a particular child . |
| 16 | Cromwell 's soldiers were close behind , and Charles , on the advice of loyal friends , sought refuge here in what was then a remote hunting lodge , already known as a safe house for Royalist fugitives . |
| 17 | Usually , you will be more concerned with compensation for loss of office colloquially known as a golden handshake . |
| 18 | This black and white Oriental tree snake is also known as a flying snake and can ‘ fly ’ considerable distances . |
| 19 | Tropical forests undergo little seasonal change so they provide a constant supply of food for creatures such as this fruit bat , also known as a flying fox ( right ) . |
| 20 | We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea . |
| 21 | Culpeper was famous for his optical instruments , especially microscopes , but also known for a wide variety of mathematical instruments in silver , brass , ivory , and wood , although it is difficult to determine at what point he moved from being a maker to a retailer . |
| 22 | The other kind of flow , with the rubbly ‘ conveyor-belt ’ surface is also known by a Polynesian name ; it is called an aa flow . |
| 23 | The flood story in Babylonia is also known from a Sumerian text telling virtually the same tale , though more briefly , and many Sumerian compositions refer to the distant days of the flood or before . |
| 24 | We 've both known for a long time how we feel about each other and all the reasons why nothing can ever come of it . |
| 25 | Although Bain is little known outside a small circle of science historians , his inventions were myriad . |
| 26 | So we 're talking about the seventeen hundred , eighteen hundred , and it was very often known as a national song , and we had a national song , probably before any other country . |
| 27 | I thought , Do n't know about a wild goose chase , this is a lame duck chase . |
| 28 | Fucking balaclava more like it , do n't know about a fucking hat ! |
| 29 | What we did n't know for a long time was that this book is his revenge on his parents . |
| 30 | I noticed how happy people were , which was something I had n't known for a long time . |