Example sentences of "[vb base] to know the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In primary schools for example , whilst the girls tend to know the names of everyone in the class , the boys know the names of the boys only . |
| 2 | But the report is worth knowing by those who want to know the poem . |
| 3 | In an American context , E. D. Hirsch has remarked on a similar conflict of interest between students who want to know the basic meanings of texts , in their historical contexts , and junior academics who believe there are no basic meanings , only a multiplicity of interpretations . |
| 4 | They want to know the whereabouts of his brother , who is a member of an illegal Kurdish independence organisation and in hiding . |
| 5 | We want to know the lot , where you 'd been and what time you left him . ’ |
| 6 | Clearly , if we want to know the role that the body clock plays in our mental performance , all these other influences must be controlled or eliminated . |
| 7 | The ability of good theories to make successful predictions is useful , because often we want to know the properties of systems that are not easily accessible by experiment . |
| 8 | And we want to know the hows and whys , the purposes of this project . |
| 9 | We want to know the relationship between genes and structures in the body ; are there , for example , special genes for the arm ? |
| 10 | Not only do I want to know the story but I want to know the whys and wherefores . |
| 11 | IF YOU want to know the pecking order of the various departments in Britain 's universities , try looking at the shareout of the 312 new academic posts announced by the Department of Education and Science last week . |
| 12 | If you want to know the correct way to squat , then just watch a child of two or three because they are doing it all the time . |
| 13 | Ungraph is a software package for scientists , CAD specialists , financial analysts and other who want to know the numeric coordinates of graphs , charts and drawings with user-selected precision . |
| 14 | I want to know the reason why someone killed Dad . ’ |
| 15 | I almost dare suggest myself again and take a stiff brandy and ask a lot of questions that we want to know the answers to . |
| 16 | Often they just want to know the figures . |
| 17 | No toilet paper , long queues , one cubicle … you know what we 're talking about , but now we want to know the best of the worst . |
| 18 | Want to know the tyre width of a certain Soviet tank , the Latin name for a tropical fish , or the Bay City Rollers ' Seventies tour dates ? |
| 19 | ‘ They want to know the score and who scored . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I want to know the identity of a man , I want to reach him , I want to put him in handcuffs and read him a charge of First Degree murder . ’ |
| 21 | In turn , clients ' expectations are growing ; they are more informed , more knowledgeable about the process , much more likely to adopt an open style , and want to know the key facts , expecting a high level of overall professionalism . |
| 22 | Suppose that we want to know the circumstances which would justify assertion of the subjunctive conditional ‘ If Mrs Thatcher had waited longer , she would have lost the election ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Kicked out of Oundle before I had a chance to get to grips with the first line of the Aeneid , if you want to know the truth . |
| 24 | If you want to know the truth . |
| 25 | We want to know the size of this angle without drawing the triangle you know that the three angles of a triangle must add up to 180° Also the two angles given add up to . |
| 26 | Now so I want to know the sort of the numbers in all the boxes . |
| 27 | They want to know the way back . |
| 28 | But I want to know the precise details . |
| 29 | We want to know the current in that . |
| 30 | " No , if you want to know the truth . |