Example sentences of "know from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are other outlets , if you want to learn the media game , in terms of speech and view , as it were , hospital radio , I do n't know whether you have any hospitals in your region but increasingly hospital radio offers an opportunity and a challenge , and welcomes people who would like to try their hand at becoming sort of D.J.s , or features editors , or are prepared to talk interestingly about subjects , and this you would only know from a local point of view . |
| 2 | We know from a contemporary historian that , under Nicephorus III , ‘ expenditure exceeded revenue by several times . |
| 3 | The flood story in Babylonia is also known from a Sumerian text telling virtually the same tale , though more briefly , and many Sumerian compositions refer to the distant days of the flood or before . |
| 4 | Portraits of the famous Roman emperors are known from a large number of other sources , principally sculpture , but for many of the Hellenistic kings or Roman emperors of the third century AD , coins provide the only portrait evidence . |
| 5 | Or possibly it was of Norman origin , for it is known from a twelfth-century description of London that bull-baiting was practised by them . |
| 6 | He had known from an early age that Jamel , as the older brother , would take over as leader of Zimbala once their father died . |
| 7 | In setting a precedent , the BWG created the opportunity for others to make their demands and needs widely known from an organized base . |
| 8 | I knew from an early age his music and his work as a conductor . |
| 9 | Perhaps because I knew from an early age that he was not long for this world , I tried to make his time in it as pleasant as possible , and thus ended up treating him far better than most young boys treat their younger brothers . |