Example sentences of "[adv] know [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I desire only to know that all is well ; that it is but my own foolishness , aided by my being here at so unholy an hour , which causes me such anguish … |
| 2 | Since those at the front shout loudly , you wo n't necessarily know that those at the back ca n't . |
| 3 | Students should come not merely to know that such and such is the case , or that this procedure works , but should be able to offer their own account of why it is the case or why it works . |
| 4 | But although the structure of the city still defeated him in detail , he had got his bearings well enough to know that this could not be their destination . |
| 5 | We know enough to know that these things are not good for our life support system or for our quality of life , and that our activities have damaging effects on our wildlife . |
| 6 | ‘ We wanted these players all to know that each one of them had a chance to be in the French Davis Cup team . |
| 7 | I do n't know mate , o I only know that that 's take us Ann and Paul and Ann and John and all them all doing all the others so |
| 8 | Here outright oppression and denial of rights is less troublesome than the benevolence of a personally known and trusted employer ; a quiet word with the boss will often be preferable to calling in a more remote and impersonal organization to settle any differences . |
| 9 | The only known or suspected production sites are at Elsham in Lincolnshire comprising concentrations of burnt material and sherds of pottery ( which have not been excavated and which may represent the remains of funeral pyres ) , the excavated kiln ( ? ) at Cassington ( Arthur and Jope 1963 ) and possibly Sutton Courtenay ( Leeds 1936 , p. 28 ) . |
| 10 | As the mind progressively clears in early recovery , the sense of guilt and remorse can be so powerful that the sufferer returns to the substance or process of addiction as the only known and practised method of suppressing unpleasant feelings . |
| 11 | Better known since cheap domestic models became available these are valuable and indispensable tools that should be part of every food operation . |
| 12 | His voice was better known than that of almost any other public figure apart from Churchill and the characters of Tommy Handley 's ITMA . |
| 13 | Forty years later , when viruses were better known and several people had attributed viral origins to some tumours and perhaps leukaemia , the paper was rediscovered . |
| 14 | Ruth only knew that all her hope was pinned on Fand to get her and Adam out of this . |
| 15 | I came in knowing that that was going to happen , so erm yo I think also I had the the freedom that I had chosen to live there , and I think that made erm the difference . |
| 16 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 17 | The crew were not to know that this day would be so different from their previous raid on Berlin . |
| 18 | He was not to know that those pictures appalled her , that she had never imagined herself capable of such thoughts . |
| 19 | They were much less likely to say there were laws or regulations protecting people who take out credit agreements , and much more likely not to know whether any action could be taken over some credit agreement which they had signed but later felt was unfair . |
| 20 | He was n't telling the fans anything they do n't already know that this Everton team has been allowed to slide into mediocrity , and that the values of the old ‘ school of science ’ have been allowed to melt away like snow in the Sahara . |
| 21 | I do not know whether that is being emulated elsewhere , so I am asking rather than making a statement . |
| 22 | I do not know whether that means that he has changed his policy or is distancing himself from the official line of the Labour party on unemployment issues . |
| 23 | I do not know whether that is the answer but , as my right hon. Friend the Member for Selby ( Mr Alison ) said , in too many cases the playing field is not level enough . |
| 24 | I do not know whether that is a serious matter , but given the right hon. Gentleman 's experience and standing , I should have thought that the Opposition Front Bench spokesmen would take careful notice of what he says . |
| 25 | ‘ We just do not know whether economic wind generators , still less economic wave-power and geothermal power , is going to be developed , ’ he said . |
| 26 | I do not know whether poor , dreamy Grandma knew what it was all about , or whether she just gathered , in a vague way , the drift of things . |
| 27 | I have to say here that I honestly do not know whether such experiences are examples of genuine recall or figments of the dreamer 's imagination . |
| 28 | It is not only that other scientists can not know whether such effects occurred in the experimenter 's interaction with his subjects ; the investigator himself may not know whether these effects have occurred . |
| 29 | That same November , I escaped from Oxford life by securing permission — I do not know whether such authorization is needed these days — to go to a performance in London by the Group Theatre in Great Newport Street , under Rupert Doone , of Sweeney Agonistes . |
| 30 | Nor can the stability argument be regarded as the last word , as we do not know whether general relativity itself will be valid right up to the space-time singularity . |