Example sentences of "[noun pl] know [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir , Just in case confusion is caused by William Boot 's news in Unauthorised Returns ( 2nd April ) that Paul Barnett has left Titan Books for the wilds of Lapland , I wonder if you would be good enough to let your readers know that the other Paul Barnett is still alive and well and working from Exeter . |
| 2 | The fly-by-night supporters might believe the hype about the current English team but the genuine rugby supporters know that the real rugby is played in the Southern Hemisphere . |
| 3 | it 's not easy to recognise solvent misusers and it 's hard for shopkeepers to know whether a young person will use a product for sniffing rather than for its legitimate purpose . |
| 4 | Your parents knew that the very first time they saw me . |
| 5 | But he also provided the second , because — with the possible exception of the United States , that land which appeared to promise the poor a personal way out of lifelong poverty , the worker a private exit from the working class , and every citizen equality with every other — the working classes knew that the liberal free market alone would not give them their rights and their needs . |
| 6 | As custodians of objective facts , statisticians know that the priceless asset of the truth must never be squandered in the interests of political expediency , not least because the public will then refuse to believe information that is actually true . |
| 7 | Both powers know that the unappealing alternative is a return to the 1970s and 1980s , when America and Russia competed in the third world through warring clients . |
| 8 | Astronomers know that the early universe was uniform because a remnant of that period , the cosmic microwave background radiation which bathes the Earth from all directions , is remarkably uniform . |
| 9 | In addition , although the test of incorporation is generally objective , special steps may be necessary where the person seeking to rely on the terms knows that the other person is under a disability ; for instance , that he can not read the language in which the terms are printed ( Geier v Kujawa [ 1970 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 364 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ The dickheads know that the best way of keeping the Americans off their backs is by buying themselves a slice of the local law . ’ |
| 11 | The spectators knew that the whole event was a staged act and yet complied : ‘ because all must be done in good order ’ . |
| 12 | The children knew that the little bunnies were coming and they were so careful of the mother when they fed her with lettuce and cabbage . |
| 13 | Again Moloney offers such an analysis of the younger DUP activists : ‘ … men like Robinson , Allister and Kane who are at the start of political careers know that the negative politics practised for so long by their leader would deny them the office and power that could be theirs . ’ |