Example sentences of "know about the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you know about the heroin in those tubes of toothpaste ? ’ he asked . |
| 2 | ‘ Did you know about the heroin in those tubes of toothpaste ? ’ |
| 3 | I know that all my readers are keen to know about the knitting in Australia , but it was a working holiday , and I must tell you a little about the ‘ holiday ’ . |
| 4 | She had been so certain she 'd known all there was to know about the man in her arms — but she had n't . |
| 5 | They could n't read or write , but Topaz longed to know about the world in which she lived , learn about strange lands beyond the seas , and the even more puzzling ways of the gaujos who spent their whole time shut up in houses made of bricks or stone , as if they had condemned themselves to perpetual imprisonment . |
| 6 | Did you yourself come to know about the article in the Telegraph ? |
| 7 | It therefore seems sensible to reject a strong form of the clausal hypothesis as inconsistent with what we know about the way in which the syntax and semantics of clauses is analysed . |
| 8 | Whereas , in a crystal we may choose the axes of symmetry , in an amorphous polymer there is by definition no symmetry and all we know about the atom in a chain is where its topological nearest neighbours are but not where its spatial neighbours are , except that they lie within a " van der Waals radius ' of the chosen atom . |
| 9 | We all know about the crisis in agriculture which has been well described by many hon. Members . |
| 10 | Another approach , exemplified by Vygotsky and Donaldson , supposes that children 's pictures — like all other aspects of their behaviour — must be interpreted in the light of what we know about the context in which the picture is produced and the culture in which the child operates . |
| 11 | However , we now wish to complicate the picture of language processing even further by considering what is known about the way in which speakers produce language . |
| 12 | Little was known about the substance in those days , but this form of defence , relying mainly on the naivety of the jury , was met with the derision it deserved . |
| 13 | The research is being conducted within the theoretical context of ‘ discourse models ’ — the mental representations which a listener constructs on the basis of what he knows about the world in general , what the speaker is actually saying and what he thinks the speaker is intending to say . |