Example sentences of "[modal v] know [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my hon. Friend agree that those who live in rural areas ought to know that that is what the Liberal Democrats have in mind ? |
| 2 | The number of days lost through strikes is lower than at any time since 1979 , and people ought to know that Labour policies would sweep all that away and bring back the sort of industrial anarchy that existed in 1978-79 . |
| 3 | And although they 're facing out of the wind now , you ought to know that this is n't the usual wind we get here . |
| 4 | Somewhere inside you may know that Super Ex is a stick you have created to beat yourself for imagined inadequacies . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend may know that one of my constituents , Bruce Harris , is in charge of the mission called Casa Alianza . |
| 6 | The idea is that we may know that some pleasures or pains have a generally high or low degree of purity or fecundity without its being practicable on a particular occasion to specify and evaluate specifically the precise further pleasures or pains which are likely to ensue from them . |
| 7 | Those of you who have read my papers in Nature may know that these are now known as Briant Bodies , and fall into four distinct groups , which I have labeled Alpha , Beta , Gamma and Delta . |
| 8 | Do you know , but you have to be so quick and you have to be precise and you must know that that 's what you want . |
| 9 | ‘ I am in lodgings in Chapel Street , you must know that all my possessions from Summer Lodge had to be sold ? ’ |
| 10 | I own that I had a liaison with her , but you must know that all such young men as myself have an … experienced life before they marry . |
| 11 | This might lead her to change her expectation of the average level of prices ; after all , if she is rational she must know that unpredictable movements in aggregate demand can occur and that one symptom of them is that the price in her island is higher than she was expecting the average to be . |
| 12 | Bodies often float to the surface , but you of all people must know that those who drown in the Thames can disappear altogether and are probably taken by undercurrents down through London and out to sea . ’ |
| 13 | Inevitably those few insiders who do undertake postgraduate research in the social sciences are aware that they are involved in the creation of ‘ clap trap ’ , and must know that this denigration stems from the implicit threat they pose to the structures of pedagogy and institutional power . |
| 14 | It is what makes the tragedy of this lost weekend all the deeper for Diana , who must know that this could be the pattern of the future . |
| 15 | We must know whether this company is insolvent and therefore whether it should continue trading . ’ |
| 16 | That road led only to self-destruction — she should know that better than anyone … only had to conjure up the sad , embittered look in her mother 's hazel eyes to realise the depths of pain such an entanglement could cause . |
| 17 | ‘ And I should know that better than anyone . |
| 18 | And the apologist who might wish to make Huxley the aggressor should know that one observer , the zoologist Alfred Newton , clearly reported that it was Huxley who had first been chaffed by the bishop . |
| 19 | An' you should know that this city 'as got a bigger mouth than any reporter from any newspaper . |
| 20 | Vic goes down in football 's annals as the first international player to be chosen from the ranks of the 4th Division ( for Wales against Northern Ireland in Belfast on 22 April 1959 ) , but Palace fans should know that this was no freak selection , for Vic had impressed many with his splendid performances and was in a run of 143 consecutive League games with just a single absence for us . |
| 21 | The remedy never fails , and you should know that this earth is of a red colour . ’ |
| 22 | The time of utterance in clock or calendar time does not seem relevant , but what certainly is relevant is that you should know whether this instruction still applies . |
| 23 | Your doctor should know if local hospitals or health centres run relaxation classes — or the library may have information about classes run by ‘ natural health ’ centres . |
| 24 | For example , a broker might know that one market maker has a strong demand for CDs of six month maturity , but can only find an issuer willing to issue at three months . |
| 25 | Alternative two-and-a-half-hour fuses were available , but all who might know if these were also used were killed in the action . |
| 26 | Now , the e the early versions were erm a lot less er flexible , they were the dinosaurs , and if anybody 's got an original P E P , they 'll know that all the dealing transactions , all the adjustments have all got to be noted and filed , and if anybody 's had a Lloyds Bank P E P since nineteen eighty seven , they 'll probably have a compete cabinet full of paperwork by now . |
| 27 | If you 've ever decided , in a flash of inspiration to change the furniture round in a particular room , you 'll know that this is one of the jobs you end up wishing you 'd never started . |
| 28 | Well if you get the others out you 'll know that this was all bush was n't it here ? |
| 29 | If you saw our predictions in the January issue of Hairflair you 'll know that structured curls are big news this year . |
| 30 | Well she 'd know that that 's , is that the one |