Example sentences of "know the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I do n't know the deaf and dumb alphabet . ’ |
| 2 | Nor do they know the complete genetic formula of any animal . |
| 3 | If we can understand the topology and stability of the various components of A , then we will know the long-term behaviour of all trajectories . |
| 4 | Neighbour Eleanor Kane said : ‘ I did n't know the young woman but the police have been to the flat a few times . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know the bloody title but I wish to see the ones Hopkins studied ! ’ |
| 6 | I did n't know the bloody blokes name ! |
| 7 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 8 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 9 | In an army in peacetime you have to arselick and know the right people if you want to get on . |
| 10 | In other words , if a minister does not know the right question to ask MI5 about a particular operation or allegation then MI5 will not volunteer any information on its own . |
| 11 | But how can the machine know the right order in which to look at the various possibilities ? |
| 12 | Even though words are my trade , I do n't know the right words . |
| 13 | ‘ If you paid to get in tonight you do n't know the right people , ’ he snaps , in a litany of barbed missiles that sting hardened fans and industry leeches alike . |
| 14 | And to point out to her now that she did n't know the right thing to do when visiting people like the Kirkleys would be , in a way , against the advice she had just given her , although it was n't to do with talking ; more like behaviour and deportment or some such . |
| 15 | A good stringer will know the right string and tension for you . |
| 16 | One basic defect in these methods of scrutiny is that M.P.s must know the right questions to ask . |
| 17 | used to teach there and she 'd probably know the right person to write to . |
| 18 | You can make hard work of an easy job if you do n't know the right way to go . |
| 19 | When he gets well again , Thérèse thought : Madeleine wo n't let him remember , she does n't know the right words to say . |
| 20 | ‘ Then how did you know the right dose ? ’ |
| 21 | She thought I might know the right channels . ’ |
| 22 | And being with Gittel was like — oh , I do n't know the right words-like the first day when the sun turns warm enough to start the ice melting off the eaves . |
| 23 | If they are to study evidence they must know the right questions to ask . |
| 24 | Now we do n't know the long term effect of that , but the experience with the protocol violators suggests that they wo n't come to any great harm , but obviously the number is small . |
| 25 | Eckert did not know the real Arthur Hardy 's share in these juvenile expeditions , nor had he seen the then unpublished A Sportman 's Tale which amplifies the sustained friendship between these two Battersea Grammar School pupils . |
| 26 | But we do not know the real essences of the substances of natural philosophy , so all that we can do is to observe and list their properties , and form only beliefs and opinions about them . |
| 27 | Like many other aspects of twentieth-century thought and culture , both modernism and postmodernism negotiate with the problem that ‘ we can know the real ’ , as Linda Hutcheon puts it , ‘ only through signs ’ , and , based on arbitrary relations between signifier and signified , language and sign may sheer away from the reality they seek to represent ( Hutcheon 1988 : 230 ) . |
| 28 | Simply take something off or put something on , and your companion will never know the real reason you stopped . |
| 29 | They would know the real meaning of religious freedom , something which has never really existed throughout religious history . |
| 30 | To enclose something , to keep something out or even to trap something , we may never know the real reason for erecting the Horngarth . |