Example sentences of "they know a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also true that many older people , who were trained rigorously in the disciplines of study fashionable before 1960 , think that they know a great deal about language , but in fact imbibed many false notions from their schooling . |
| 2 | Individuals can only do their jobs well in this context if they know a great deal about everyone else 's jobs and problems . |
| 3 | Where they do differ is that they know a great deal less about the properties of social and psychological phenomena than do the natural sciences about the properties of the natural world . |
| 4 | Individuals can only do their jobs well in this context if they know a great deal about everyone else 's jobs and problems . |
| 5 | I know that my right hon. Friend and the Downing street team , the socialists with their council contracts , and the Liberal Democrats because they know a good bandwagon when they see one — and they must have seen one , because not a single Liberal Democrat is present — all claim to have sired the citizens charter concept . |
| 6 | However logical they know a mass killing of Ruddy Ducks is likely to ruffle a few feathers |
| 7 | Caving , of course , does nothing for pristine clothing , but the bedraggled and apparent roughnecks seen in the streets of Ingleton after a hard day can afford to ignore the caustic comments of observers : they know a wonderful world their critics will never see . |
| 8 | They know a white sierra car was seen stalking the area and are warning other house owners to be on their guard . |
| 9 | They knew a great deal about their cancer , and several of them were quite evidently very ill with it . |
| 10 | SYDNEY WOODERSON and Zola Budd did not have much in common but they knew a special achievement and a peculiar failure . |
| 11 | When they did use credit , it tended to be HP ( again borne out by the small number of West Indians interviewed for the main survey ) , and they knew a fair amount about their rights in an HP transaction , though they felt that the language of the agreements should be simpler to understand . |
| 12 | So on the rare occasions they did report themselves in a State of Readiness they knew an Agile Blade was likely . |