Example sentences of "[adv] know [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | ‘ I expect you only know about rateable values an' that . ’ |
| 3 | Networks that exhibit the same terminal behaviour as some device , system or more complicated network are naturally known as equivalent circuits . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Andrew Morton became a millionaire , thanks to the runaway success of ‘ that book ’ as his Diana : Her True Story is apparently known in royal circles . |
| 7 | She had always been the sensible , down-to-earth twin , yet here she was , going away with a man she had only known for two days . |
| 8 | The rights and duties of individuals towards each other are together known as private law which in Anglo-Saxon countries , such as Britain and the United States , tends to derive from custom as incorporated by judges through time in what is known in Britain as the common law . |
| 9 | Rudbeckia fulgida deamii is better known as black-eyed Susan |
| 10 | Stuart Errington was perhaps better known as Chief Executive and Chairman of Mercantile Credit ( and at different periods Chairman of the Finance Houses Association and the Equipment Leasing Association ) , but is now Chairman of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 11 | Traditionally , this cooling requirement has been accomplished using slices of solid carbon dioxide , better known as dry ice . |
| 12 | So here 's my offering to the cause of European détente — GBFH , better known as Great Backpacking Found Here . |
| 13 | Feeling very much at home among the farm animals were Colin Skipp and Patricia Gallimore , better known as organic farmers and yoghurt makers , Pat and Tony Archer from the long-running radio series , The Archers . |
| 14 | This gas is better known to dental patients as laughing gas , but it is also a mainstay in the operating theatres of many hospitals . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Three such smoothies recently opened the doors of their brand-new consultancy , Frew Dale Macmaster , in London 's Harley Street , better known for medical doctors than image surgeons . |
| 19 | For example , Academician Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar is better known in certain circles as Igor ‘ Obmanilovich ’ Grabar . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Middlesex Street in London has a very famous market and the street 's better known by this name , what is it ? |
| 22 | Many schools preferred at that time to have two paymasters rather than one , but in 1926 they were obliged to choose : those which thereafter received grants from the Board of Education in London , and not through the Local Education Authority , were reasonably enough known as direct-grant schools . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As a boy , of course , I was not to know of such matters , such degradation , such humiliation and indignities . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ That woman did not know about such birthmarks . |
| 29 | You do not know about these things . |
| 30 | With regard to the incident this morning , we do not know at this stage whether the injured man was operating a taxi or not . |