Example sentences of "to know [conj] [art] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway it 's nice to know that no time has been wasted though I do n't imagine there will be much energy left for the Finer Things . |
| 2 | But it is one thing for us to know that a person needs God 's conviction and another thing to say so to him . |
| 3 | Obviously you get to know that a Gibson has a different tone from a Strat , and you 'd also know the kind of sound you wanted . |
| 4 | He stops short of hoping Grobbelaar makes one of his increasingly frequent mistakes tomorrow , but Knight is professional enough to know that a team has to take advantage of any breaks that come their way . |
| 5 | For most purposes it is enough to know that an enterprise makes losses — that its revenues are less than the sum of its wages , its cost of capital and its cost of material inputs ( raw materials , components , energy and so on ) . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's heartening to know that the refinery has stood the test of time despite the harsh climate , ’ reports chief engineer Tony Ferdinand . |
| 7 | That is , if the same grammatical tag is found more than once in a position it is necessary only to know that the tag occurs in that position and the best scores associated with that tag . |
| 8 | There are few parts of Prestel where you can get information of this quality for free and it is heartening to know that the service has been gradually tailored to users ' needs by the feedback AIS has received from the past year . |
| 9 | First of all you need to know that the legislation says that , you need to know the current practice is that , and I can tell you a couple of funny stories about what happened to Mrs Ingalls down the street . ’ |
| 10 | In constructivism we view the organism-environment dyad from the outside and ask how it might be possible that an organism which has input systems and which is active could ever come to know that the environment exists . |
| 11 | Another problem is that it is difficult in some cases to know whether a word has one , or more than one , suffix ( e.g. should we analyse ‘ personality ’ , from the point of view of stress assignment , as + or as + + ? ) . |
| 12 | A separate Form HN1 for each centre is essential because SCOTVEC requires to know whether a centre has the approval of the Scottish Education Department and , if appropriate , the Regional or Islands Council concerned . |
| 13 | They may think the experimenter wants to know himself and not realise that he just wants to know whether the child knows the answer . |
| 14 | It is sometimes difficult to know whether the purchaser has done an act adopting the transaction . |
| 15 | After all , the dealer is in a position to know whether the car has any serious defects . |
| 16 | It is obviously important to know whether the car has been stolen or whether the driver has a criminal record . |
| 17 | Erm we would like to know whether the food 's been produced cleanly , say organically . |
| 18 | In the example of the paperclip business it is important to know whether the vendor has its own or an external design team . |
| 19 | It is more difficult to know whether an animal goes through the experience of at one moment not being able to see a food item , but then being able to see it at the next . |