Example sentences of "[pron] know from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know from other work going on in the south of Shetland that 10 per cent of the residents there remain concerned about the possibility of major long-term health effects , ’ he said . |
| 2 | But I know from personal experience that gardens can get a bit messy — you ca n't take a dog for a walk every time it wants to ‘ go ’ , even with the best will in the world . |
| 3 | I know from personal experience that there is nothing more wearing and wearying than continually being knocked backwards and sideways just when you think you have something on the go . |
| 4 | Then : ‘ I know from personal experience how difficult it is to write a book . |
| 5 | As I know from personal experience one Bulgarian or Yugoslavian school is very much like its neighbour . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , as I know from personal experience it 's almost impossible to get to the rear of this house from the front when the door at the end of the passageway between the garage and the house wall is locked . |
| 7 | Please accept my sincere condolences at your family 's sad loss , I know from personal experience how much it hurts to lose one so close . |
| 8 | But I think it 's fair to say that the changes in the n nine , early nineteen eighties particularly those which gave the unions a predominant position in choosing the leader , were not of the unions ' making , certainly not of the G M B's making , as I know from personal experience at the time . |
| 9 | Thank you very much , Sir Leonard for that , in th in the beginning of your address you posed the question , what does a company like I B M have to do with a community and then proceeded to answer your question , I think in a most , er , comprehensive way , and I I speak as someone who lives in a county , Hampshire , where I B M has a strong er , base , and I know from personal experience as a volunteer in that county , how much we value the contacts that we have with I B M and the way in which we work together with them in the way that you have described . |
| 10 | I am always mindful of the fact that 1 may move too far and pass such a spot especially when I know from previous visits that there are good numbers of zander in the area . |
| 11 | My first rod is used to cast to within a yard or two of a predetermined spot ; a spot which I know from past experience is a productive one . |
| 12 | Now I know from past experience , that creating that mailing list is going to take approximately sixteen hours of my time . |
| 13 | I know from bitter experience there is nothing more frustrating that to keep catching fish that just miss the line when the fellow next to you only gets one , but its nose nudges over the line . |
| 14 | I know from first-hand experience about the excellent work that is done by a number of legal aid practices and law centres in supporting asylum applicants . |
| 15 | You need to come to terms with the fact that whilst time is objectively finite and inelastic , you know from personal experience that time can seem highly elastic . |
| 16 | ‘ As you know from personal experience ? ’ |
| 17 | We will have to , by law , respond to them , but you ca n't see the Children Act outside of the context of what we 're already doing with our other Children 's Services , as you know from previous discussions we 've had and from keeping track in the papers , over the last eighteen months we 've been recruiting more foster carers , reducing the number of children 's homes , developing preventative services rather than receiving children into care . |
| 18 | Anxious , because you know from past experience that when the convenient moment arrives for you to sow , the weather will turn wet or cold , even snowy , and effort and seed would be wasted , yet time is slipping by and the crops most worth raising are those that come first . |
| 19 | We know from Eastern Europe that there is an intimate connection between political liberty and economic freedom . |
| 20 | ‘ We know from recent research that some 88% of all adults know about us , and are sympathetic to the cause . |
| 21 | We know from external evidence that Milton is clearly talking about himself at this point . |
| 22 | We know from ancient tradition that in its earliest form Greek tragedy always dealt with the mythical sufferings of Dionysus . |
| 23 | Although we know from other sources that Emily Faithfull 's London apprentices and journey-women were in fact paid the full male rate ( though with some amendment of the apprenticeship system ) , it was clear that she and other promoters of the scheme did anticipate that the consequence might be to lower wages in the printing trade . |
| 24 | At this point the manuscript containing her biography is cut short , but we know from other sources that a priory for her was built at Markyate in 1145 , and that in 1155 she sent gifts of embroidery to Pope Adrian IV . |
| 25 | Since we know from other evidence that the warrior and mercantile classes of Europe were not being depleted in this period — on the contrary , were steadily rising — we can see here further evidence of the rise in population of this age , a rise all the more striking since it could continue and grow in strength even though so many men and women were following a life of celibacy . |
| 26 | Thus the reference to the ruined walls of Eblis , in Aquitaine , is not gratuitous ; and we know from other passages that Pound 's refusal in the last resort to take seriously Russia 's contribution to European culture was grounded in his notion that Russia had never produced an indigenous tradition of stone architecture . |
| 27 | Heuer and Reisberg ( 1990 ) , for example , conclude a recent study on eyewitness memory with the statement ‘ we know from prior evidence that emotional arousal triggers vivid recollection . |
| 28 | But we know from occasional appearances in the city of gay or lesbian performers that there will be a terrific demand for tickets . ’ |
| 29 | Posidonius had to interpret the strong belief in the other world which we know from independent evidence to have existed among the Celts of his time . |
| 30 | Consciousness does have a unique character about it , a character which we know from direct experience and which we can reasonably attribute by analogy to other human beings and , perhaps , to cats . |