Example sentences of "[adv] know the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Those who seek to follow Jesus Christ , and in doing so to know the power and purpose of God in their lives , are called to a life of transformation .
2 You 'd better know the theory and the practice of the venue 's fire regulations .
3 The person concerned will obviously know the time and property concerned .
4 I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming .
5 You 're not to know the ins and outs of my family .
6 In many ways , she would prefer not to know the identity or motive of her captors .
7 He will be criminally liable unless he was so insane as either ‘ not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ’ , or ‘ not to know that what he was doing was against the law ’ .
8 Everyone will soon know the truth if they start asking me questions . ’
9 This should lead us to harbour severe doubts about the ‘ scientific ’ nature of such research , since it seems to already know the answer before it goes out to investigate .
10 Certainly Premack 's findings are under this cloud since Sarah 's performance suffered considerably when in the presence of a trainer who did not know the answers that she was supposed to give , and it would seem natural to expect that the more broadbrush methods of the gestural teaching would be equally suspect .
11 Libby did not know the calls but George said it was the gone-away .
12 The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost .
13 ‘ These unfortunate people have come from the north , and they do not know the road as we do . ’
14 How could he bind himself , when he did not know the day or the hour when Isambard might come home ?
15 I do not know the facts and the background and have not met the people at other firms , but I am impressed by the quality of the management and the attitude of the employees at Strathtay .
16 If the subject does not know the junction and is attempting to decide how risky it is likely to be in other circumstances it would make sense to extrapolate from the information in the film to decide for example how busy the junction generally is , or to simply generalize from their current feelings of risk .
17 I do not write to you because you do not know the truth but because you do know that it and because no lie comes from that truth .
18 I do not know the individuals or firms responsible for the tipping , but I should be grateful if you could look into the matter .
19 Unfortunately , such people have not had their daily rhythms studied in detail and so we do not know the time-cues that are important to them .
20 The Minister may be surprised into revealing more than he intended or reduced to admitting he does not know the answer or even misleading the House .
21 Her brother did not know the reason and needed a woman to get close to her , and he was prepared to put up with both Mitch and herself to get to the bottom of things .
22 A woman from another tribe might not easily fit into her partner 's home environment , where she would not know the language and where the local women might not accept her .
23 They were ill-informed in the sense that the conceptual basis for understanding such meaning was not carefully theorised , as well as in the more obvious sense that the travellers often simply did not know the language and did not spend enough time living in a particular society .
24 When schoolteachers ask questions , they already know the answers and are simply checking to make sure you know them , too .
25 For the accused to be declared insane , he must be so diseased ‘ as to not know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or if he did know it , that he did not know he was doing what was wrong . ’
26 This was certainly a strange case , but he had not known the Pitts and he saw plenty of messy deaths .
27 Despite not knowing the circuit and rain during practice , he scored another second place behind Stewart , who had recovered from an ulcer .
28 Not frightened about not knowing the answers but frightened about not hearing the questions in the first place . ’
29 I 'd listen outside , still not knowing the instrument or the name of the tune he practised .
30 I jus just wondered , not knowing the area as well as you do wondered if there was a little
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