Example sentences of "they knew that the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They knew that the accusation was untrue .
2 Now they knew that the women had been right , Jesus had indeed risen from the dead .
3 They knew that the village police sergeant and constable were there not only to deal with ordinary crime but to report on any political activity in their district .
4 They knew that the story of the radar station at Rudow was a blind .
5 Surely it is possible that a jury might decline to convict of murder a person who intentionally killed under gross provocation , even though they knew that the judge could give a lenient sentence , because they wished to signify the reduction in the defendant 's culpability by using the less stigmatic label of manslaughter .
6 They knew that the voice that spoke to them with their own voice was not their own but the voice of a being that had its abode in a world of light .
7 Probably some , who considered the idea of Making Ends Meet unacceptable and unbecoming , i.e. those enjoying the thrusting Live-Now-Pay-Later lifestyle of the 1990s , would think differently if they knew that the cost of borrowing the £5,000 that would extricate them from the consequences of their cavalier attitude would cost them almost another £5,000 .
8 And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’
9 It seems possible that people located hostility in groups because they knew that the others , their opponents , would expect reprisals from any members of the group they opposed .
10 as if they knew that the problem was not resolved a letter arrived yesterday from the headquarters of British Bakeries .
11 They knew that the government censored radio and newspapers .
12 They knew that the government which had passed the order prohibiting the supply of oil to Southern Rhodesia was sufficiently realistic to know it could not be enforced .
13 The British administrators were patient because they knew that the whole of the Masai respect for them lay in
14 Indeed , some went so far as to ‘ play dumb ’ when they were with male students because they knew that the men did n't like clever women .
15 They knew that the boom in students would n't last .
16 If they knew that the unemployment rates were twenty or thirty percent in urban areas that they would n't migrate but because they do n't have that information that 's , that 's the reason .
17 As teachers left Northwich , they knew that the weeks and months ahead will be full of opportunities to discover and enjoy the riches of this new programme .
18 He is concerned about its merits , but , perhaps more important in the context of his constituents ' practice , he is concerned about whether they knew that the limitation on the payments due existed within the scheme that we were operating .
19 Like the rest of London 's river children , they knew that the mud was a source of wealth , but were too shrewd to go into competition with the locals from Partisan Street for coins , medals and lugworms .
20 But equally , ’ his voice surged , ‘ they knew that the Lord would provide .
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