Example sentences of "know [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But many of the Premier Division players claim they know nothing about the current drug-testing programme . |
| 2 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
| 3 | In summary , the questions in studies of more and less have revolved around three issues : ( a ) whether children have full or only partial lexical knowledge about the pertinent word meanings ; ( b ) the extent to which children rely on non-linguistic strategies in the absence of lexical information ( clearly children know none of the pertinent meanings at first for a domain , and several studies have documented the kinds of non-linguistic strategies they then rely on in responding to instructions — see Clark , 1973b , 1979,1980 ; Donaldson and McGarrigle , 1974 ) ; and ( c ) whether children observe the principle of Contrast . |
| 4 | That as compared with the one you can put in that you know one at the top one at the side and . |
| 5 | As we now know something of the appalling story of his hounding by cultural officialdom , the raucous irony of the middle works and the bitter blackness of the last become entirely comprehensible . |
| 6 | If you know something about the deeper inner workings of computers then you can make use of this fact to guess what sort of things might cause a program some difficulties . |
| 7 | From collections of legal formulae we know something about the local archives of a city , in which wills and other actions were registered , and we find various officials , the defensor , curator , magister militum and other members of the local curia being called upon to open the archives for the registration of new grants , but we have Formularies only from a small number of civitates , and their contents are not often datable , except to the period before the ninth century , when most of them were written down . |
| 8 | If any readers know anything of the current whereabouts of Tin Tin , Milly Molly Mandy , Jennings and/or Derbyshire , Rupert Bear , any of the Famous Five or Secret Seven , Billy Bunter , My Naughty Little Sister ( presumably now in freelance tax-free employment round the back of King 's Cross ? ) or any of the many others , I 'd like to hear about it . |
| 9 | None of this implies of course that babies know anything about the external world at all . |
| 10 | I ask if they know anything about the snowy owl . |
| 11 | ‘ I only meant that not many people know anything about the old gods these days . ’ |