Example sentences of "[adv] know [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Workers who can be exposed to excessively cold weather conditions have not only to know about survival measures during over-exposure , but be able and willing to carry them out . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | I received a strong impression that it was not enough to know about injustice and suffering ; practical solutions had to be found . |
4 | Been in combat long enough to know about fall-back positions in case things go wrong . ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Using this statement , you can , for instance , erase and rename files whose names you only know at run-time . |
7 | And like , Scott told me and thinking about it if I 'd of been in in the frame , frame of mind that I 'm in know for example , I would of sort of pah ! |
8 | Political philosophy can be ‘ grounded on its own principles sufficiently known by experience ’ . |
9 | This is Mr Grimwood — apparently known as Papa . |
10 | The other Swanwic estate was Carents Court , now only known as Court . |
11 | Once again , if you want to rename files whose names are only known at run-time , you must use the OSCLI command . |
12 | While he 's often only known for number of aces he blasts — 929 so far this year — last night his all-round game was on show and he served only six aces . |
13 | They should n't have found a single gun that day — we 'd have buried the lot if we 'd only known in time . ’ |
14 | It was acknowledged that dock identification was unsatisfactory but the identification of a person through a name which was only known by hearsay was almost equivalent to a dock identification . |
15 | Similarly , his principle of " concomitant variation " proposed that whatever phenomenon varies whenever another phenomenon varies , is either the cause or the effect of that phenomenon — a principle more familiarly known as correlation . |
16 | GEORGE WENDT , better known as Norm , barfly supreme in Cheers , joined together with the reformed MADNESS for the pilot of new music programme Spunk recently . |
17 | Among those present either lunching , or braving the elements to watch the match , or both , were the new Argentine Ambassador Señor Mario Campora , , she is better known as TV sports presenter Sally Jones ; Mr and Mrs Brian Jenks , whom I had enjoyed meeting at Royal Ascot earlier in the week ; , Mr Brian Morrison , he owns the Royal Berkshire Polo ground ; Major Ronald Ferguson , who runs the polo here very efficiently ; . |
18 | THE Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery , better known as film director Henry Herbert , has found an unusual cast member for a short film about his ancestors . |
19 | Pointing the way ahead at the front is 17-month-old Emily , better known as Kitten , sitting on the knee of her mum , Nikki ‘ Scorpio ’ Diamond . |
20 | On to Wing On Street , better known as Cloth Alley , where you can find silks , linens and wools at incredibly low prices , and where the salesmen know exactly how much you need for a shirt or a suit . |
21 | In 1909 Cumming was appointed head of what became the foreign section of the Secret Service Bureau ( the forerunner of the Secret Intelligence Service , better known as SIS or MI6 ) . |
22 | The sitting Tory MP is Rupert Allason , better known as spy writer Nigel West . |
23 | The label 's ‘ Shostakovich Film Festival ’ ( ) is music from The Gadfly , Five Days and Five Nights , Hamlet — and , more dubiously , the Tahiti Trot ( which Shostakovich simply orchestrated for a wager after hearing a gramophone record of it — there 's no evidence he ever saw the son , better known as Tea for Two , performed on film or intended that his own version of it should be ) , and the First Piano Concerto ( some of the themes of which were recycled for a Soviet cartoon in 1933 ! ) . |
24 | Had he not been followed as a Surrey opener by Jack Hobbs , then perhaps he would be better known to posterity . |
25 | Despite his aspirations to poetry , he became better-known as a prose writer in his minutes and despatches as a statesman , for ‘ Owen Meredith ’ , better known to history as Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton , first Earl of Lytton ( 1831–91 ) , became a distinguished diplomat , the climax of his career coming in 1876–80 when he served as Viceroy of India and in that capacity proclaimed Queen Victoria as Empress at Delhi in 1877 . |
26 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
27 | They need to be ‘ better known to nature ’ too , prior in the order of things to the conclusions established on their basis . |
28 | He is probably right , too , in thinking that she would be far better known in art historical terms had she stayed in France , where her daring move into abstraction was more appreciated , than returning dutifully to the provincial inertia of Dublin . |
29 | These kids not only knew about rock'n'roll , they could play it . |
30 | He only knows about money , Arts Council grants , stuffy councillors going on about ‘ bums on seats ’ . ’ |