Example sentences of "know how [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would also like to know how critical the timing of the distributor pump is , as I have tried adjusting it ( by trial and error ) about a couple of degrees , with some improvement in performance , but do not want to take it too far . |
| 2 | Even Tom Fearon , who ought to know how good a rider Harriet had been if anyone did , had said wonderingly and without the slightest intention of double-entendre , ‘ Harriet had a first-class seat . |
| 3 | Ideally we would like to know how good the approximation is over all x . |
| 4 | For example , if you want to know how big a kiwi fruit is , I can outline its shape with my fingers , or show you another object which I believe has similar proportions . |
| 5 | I would like to know how old the pump is and what the original price would have been . |
| 6 | I want to know how important the jade is to you . |
| 7 | Ngugi said he had never taken drugs and did not know how serious the refusal was until he was barred from the meeting . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know how strong the Bridge is , but it ca n't be designed to absorb this much stress . ’ |
| 9 | The problem here is an obvious one and has already been alluded to , namely how do we know how good an indicator is if we can not compare the phenomenon with the indicator ? |
| 10 | ‘ I know Alf 's a figure of fun but people do n't know how good an actor Bryan is . |
| 11 | If Kylie did n't know how desperate the press is to write something about her , she might believe she had a double . |
| 12 | Oh , you do not know how great a relief that is ! ’ |
| 13 | I did n't know how old the sugar cubes were . |
| 14 | But I will know one thing about it ( and at least the certainty brings comfort ) : I will know how bad the secret is . |
| 15 | ‘ But I wo n't know how bad the damage is until I see the physio tomorrow , and then I may have an idea if I have a chance of playing in the first league game . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't know how reliable the post is here , as I have only received one postcard from you here — it was posted on 16 March , and was awaiting us on arrival . |
| 17 | He could n't know how tempting the thought of laying down her burden was , but it would mean admitting guilt where there was none — to a man who would as soon see her sink as swim . |
| 18 | He did n't know how high a temperature they could take before they went into shut-down , and he supposed he would n't get a chance to record his findings if he did pursue the experiment to the end . |
| 19 | I do n't know how high the pass was , but even with the sun casting long , black shadows , there was none of the fearsomeness of the journey we had made only that morning . |
| 20 | If you measure a web built outdoors , you will know how large the cage must be . |
| 21 | It is too early to say why I lost and I do not know how big a part the race issue played , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Because you do n't know how big a share is until you know how many people are sharing it . |
| 23 | We do not know how big a slice of the cake British Coal will be able to secure . |
| 24 | I do n't know how big the uptake is because actually it does n't make a lot of sense you know , it 's not that much cheaper . |
| 25 | That way we 'll know how big the universe is . |
| 26 | Erm , do we know how big the department 's going to be , because that governs the salary ? |
| 27 | Moreover , studies of the spectra of the stars can tell us a great deal about their real luminosities , and hence about their distances ; once you know how powerful an object really is , and compare it with its apparent brilliancy , you can work out how far away it must be , provided that due allowance is made for complicating factors such as the absorption of light by material spread thinly through space . |
| 28 | That came as no surprise to us , as we know how good the business climate in this country has been in recent years with the success of deregulation and low taxation and the attractiveness of Britain as a home of inward investment . |
| 29 | For instance , in one of the lectures we were talking about how you know how heavy an atom is , and my colleague , Mike Pendlebury , was describing how you can actually do this by weighing a crystal and counting the number of atoms in it , erm this is certainly not the traditional way , it 's a way that 's been developed over the last few years . |
| 30 | As an historian I know how valuable a commodity — and I mean valuable in terms of hard cash — it ought to be in these days when the whole of life , our own present as well as the past , seems to reach us pre-packaged in the form of interviews and telly-probe . |