Example sentences of "know [art] " in BNC.

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1 The shape of a picture may have been altered , and the museum , though not a stray visitor , will know the fact .
2 Once again , the Regional Arts Association will know the leading amateur companies in your area , and this should certainly help you in looking for the kind of group to which you are best suited .
3 One thing you can be sure of is that the panel will know the words of these characters very well ( they will probably be able to prompt you at any given moment should you ‘ dry ’ ) but each and every time the lines are spoken by a new voice they are different in their texture , humour , drama and music .
4 It ca n't be stressed enough that you should know the entire play from which you select your audition piece ; not only that , but have thought carefully about the characters and their inter-relationship .
5 And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time .
6 If you do n't know the answer , do n't be afraid to say so .
7 The scattered crowd drew closer together and listened quietly , but when he gave his warning about the Riot Act , glances were exchanged , a few grinned openly , and a wit called out , ‘ They must know the law here — that is why they have all stayed at home . ’
8 We must know the charge . ’
9 I smiled , nodding my head , not unhappy that he 'd jumped to the wrong conclusions , but surprised that he did n't know the secret of paying by instalments .
10 As I accelerated my pace I asked myself what I was doing here , and I did n't know the answer .
11 She did n't know the language .
12 It is very hard to design a house if you do n't know the shape of the bricks .
13 Though every responsible artist must know the annals of his art ( no one more than Pound insisted on that ) , still every artwork that is worth anything not only can be but has to be new , unprecedented .
14 Omar Pound must know the full story , but rightly I think , though surely austerely , he has left it for us to piece together .
15 On the other hand you have a whole generation of TV watchers that does n't really know the rules .
16 I did n't know The Rolling Stones had started playing just down by the river . ’
17 If you did n't know the tunes , you 'd assume Holly 's lyrics decorated some innocent backporch spooners from the turn-of-the-century : ‘ Stars appear and the shadows are fallin' You can hear my honey callin' . ’
18 Mrs Thatcher said no one could know the direction in which free nations would progress .
19 Thompson did not know the details then because he did not want to .
20 I suppose you 'd know the trouble-makers as well ?
21 He looked at me , and in a rather quiet voice , which was most unusual for him , be enquired , ‘ Do you know the March Past of the Irish Guards ? ’
22 A 27-year-old party member and ex-Red Army man had read the press regularly since 1917 , but did not know the meaning of words such as ‘ class enemy ’ , occupation , period , or most abbreviations , including the USSR .
23 I do n't know the answer , for only the people can give it ; but I do know that it is our duty to ask them .
24 The controlling agents of the status quo may know the power of lies ; dissident sub-cultures , however , are closer to knowing their value ’ ( cited in Bronski , Culture-Clash , 41 ) .
25 Everyone in the whole marine department just threw up their hands in horror and told me I was crazy , I did n't know the first thing about ships , the whole marine fleet would fall apart .
26 In an army in peacetime you have to arselick and know the right people if you want to get on .
27 ‘ You do n't know the first thing about the business , woman . ’
28 ‘ I do n't know the place .
29 I do n't know the name or address except that it is a club of some sort .
30 They do n't know the language so their choice of jobs is limited to the worst and least skilled ; they do n't know their rights so they can be intimidated , they do n't have much information about other , better off workers so they can be paid poverty-line wages .
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