Example sentences of "[adv] know [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes parents fail to give the true reason why something upsets them because they think the youngster is not old enough to know about such things . |
| 2 | This group , all known to each other , were daily injectors of ‘ speed ’ and made a conscious decision to change to what they thought was a ‘ less dangerous drug ’ . |
| 3 | The nature of Burne-Jones 's aims and predilections in art are well-enough known by this time , and have been defined by himself absolutely fitted to this thought : ‘ I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was , never will be — in a light better than any light that ever shone — in a land no one can define or remember , only desire . ’ |
| 4 | BETTER KNOWN to most readers of this paper as the label responsible for Headbutt , Mega City Four , Bizarre Inc and J Saul Kane 's various aliases , Vinyl Solution are the UK 's forgotten rap indie . |
| 5 | As Gavyn Davies , who may be better known to some Opposition Members than he is to us , has said , the interesting thing is at how high a proportion of GDP investment has settled , notwithstanding the recession . |
| 6 | Thomas Telford is better known for such engineering feats as the Menai Suspension Bridge or the Caledonian Canal , or roads and bridges throughout the Highlands . |
| 7 | The sum has been the same since 1983 , when the Government launched its Enterprise Allowance Scheme — better known in some circles as the Enterprise Allowance Scam or Enquiring Artists ' Support . |
| 8 | Middlesex Street in London has a very famous market and the street 's better known by this name , what is it ? |
| 9 | She heard the front gate squeak open , and as she saw the two young Garda officers look up at the window and come slowly up her path , Kit Hegarty suddenly knew without any doubt what they were coming to tell her . |
| 10 | Two or three months prior to the Dams Raid , when the new squadron was being formed in the spring of 1943 , ground crew personnel from all over Bomber Command were selected and sent to Scampton , the best men at their respective jobs , for what they only knew at that time was going to be one special operation . |
| 11 | As a boy , of course , I was not to know of such matters , such degradation , such humiliation and indignities . |
| 12 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 13 | I do not know about that kind of radical suggestion , but the police were very successful last year in closing down four domestic manufacturers of Ecstasy — hence the fact that most of the drug being sold on our streets comes from abroad , some from continental Europe . |
| 14 | ‘ That woman did not know about such birthmarks . |
| 15 | I did not know about any of this , because they had put a sleeping powder in my wine , and I was in a deep sleep . |
| 16 | You do not know about these things . |
| 17 | [ The ] new languages provided only very modest space for parody : these languages hardly know , and now do not know at all , sacred words , since they themselves were born to a significant extent out of a parody of the sacred word . |
| 18 | There were amused smiles , but they did not know at all why Alain had done that . |
| 19 | They were , he said , ‘ cultural orphans ’ , and ‘ the children just did not know at all how to keep a house clean . |
| 20 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 21 | With regard to the incident this morning , we do not know at this stage whether the injured man was operating a taxi or not . |
| 22 | But we shall not know for some time yet . |
| 23 | But the people who are running them often do not know of each other 's existence , or if they do , they find it difficult to cooperate with one another . |
| 24 | I do not know of that detailed work , but she has made an interesting comment on the position in the United States . |
| 25 | People from other lineages might not know of these particular marriages , but they had similar marriages of their own , similar reminders in their own genealogies that they had made a special and enduring peace with other lineages . |
| 26 | Thirdly , our young painter would not know of any other artistic centre beside Paris and would not imagine that such a place might exist . |
| 27 | But Gaily knew that he would not go , not even once , to the club , though he did not know of any reason , beyond a feeling , a shrinking-back from an uncongenial world , a novelty , the element of surprise . |
| 28 | I do not know of any direct evidence that sexually transmitted diseases increase the libido of sufferers , but I conjecture that it would be worth looking into . |
| 29 | It was my view that float fishing would not be a good idea anyhow , for I did not know of any big bream swims close enough to the bank for a float cast . |
| 30 | Unfortunately the authors do not know of any existing Green oil painting . |