Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] know that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not to know that Tina , sticking to her principles , had long ago slept with her cousin Jarvis . |
| 2 | Her will included legacies of twenty pounds each to her Frome cousins , Mary and Sarah , the daughters of her uncle John Titford ; she was not to know that Mary would die just two months before she did , though Sarah , as we shall see , survived for another five years , long enough to bless the generosity of her Surrey cousin . |
| 3 | ‘ Because if you do n't , ’ said Owen , ‘ I shall let it be generally known that Andrus has been giving money to the Moslems for them to use against Copts . ’ |
| 4 | If it were not known that pupil-dilation was intimately related to neurological functioning of the brain its absence in some cases of head injury might go unremarked ; but once its significance is appreciated , such a seemingly slight symptom assumes drastic importance . |
| 5 | It 's already known that women who take the contraceptive pill are much less likely to develop it . |
| 6 | And it 's also known that breastmilk has a special value for babies most vulnerable to infection , for example those born ill or premature . |
| 7 | To the actress Joyce Carey in the crowded foyer of the Old Vic : ‘ But Joyce , it 's well known that Shakespeare sucked Bacon dry . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's well known that Maurice likes a night out but the media attention he gets in Britain makes it difficult for him to enjoy it . |
| 9 | But it 's now known that Mrs Law was last seen alive just after lunchtime on Sunday . |
| 10 | Husameddin 's argument , moreover , ignores the facts that Shams al-Din is known to have been part of Molla Fenari 's name but not , so far as can be discovered , of that of his son and that the son was regularly referred to as Mehmed Sah whereas it is not known that Molla Fenari ever was . |
| 11 | It is well known that teachers undertake a number of tasks which appear to be additional to their contractual duties and so voluntary . |
| 12 | It may also be noted that if this method is employed then the first number chosen should be by random means rather than just ‘ saying a number between 1 and 10 ’ since it is well known that choices between these limits do not come out anything like randomly — the number 7 being particularly popular . |
| 13 | In the field of cancer therapy it is well known that irradiation can cause tumours and yet they can also be treated by radiation and many of the drugs used in chemotherapy for tumours can also cause tumours . |
| 14 | It is well known that things can happen in the mind that can not happen elsewhere . |
| 15 | It is questionable whether the spaying of cows was widely practised at that time , but it is well known that London dairymen were only interested in a continuous milk supply . |
| 16 | It is well known that products of the cyclo-oxygenase reaction , prostaglandins , and of the lipoxygenase reaction , leukotrienes , are increased in inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 17 | This date is too late for the birth of Jesus as it is well known that Jesus was born in the reign of Herod the Great , who died in 4 BC . |
| 18 | It is well known that girls and boys tend to choose different books , and indeed that teenage boys tend to drop voluntary reading altogether . |
| 19 | It is well known that responses to a stimulus presented off-centre will be faster when made by the limb on the same side of the body as the stimulus appears , that is , when stimulus and response are said to be compatible ( Fitts and Seeger , 1953 ) . |
| 20 | It is well known that parents tend to treat their children as they themselves have been treated by their own parents . |
| 21 | However , this is unlikely to cause any difficulties in the context of commercial operations : it is well known that documents of the kind on which standard terms of business are likely to be printed , such as orders , acknowledgments and delivery notes , commonly include contract terms . |
| 22 | It is well known that filling of the gland with acinar should be avoided . |
| 23 | It is well known that managers in general make very limited use of external publicly available information sources for strategic ( or , indeed , frequently for any other ) purposes . |
| 24 | It is well known that survey data is subject to a variety of sources of measurement error such as misreporting , recall errors and telescoping of past incidents to give a false historical record . |
| 25 | It is well known that HARPY avoided the combinatorics of breadth-first search by an advantageous structuring of the search space . |
| 26 | It is well known that part of the price of IMF finance was curtailment of the government 's public expenditure plans , which was to increase the tension between the party leadership on the one hand and the left and the unions ( particularly in the public sector ) on the other , over subsequent years . |
| 27 | It is well known that problems of identification are acute throughout the criminal law , and intent is also hard to prove in some cases . |
| 28 | 3 Of course New Yorks is not the capital of the USA. 4 It is well known that Maths is harder than English . |
| 29 | It is well known that money-lenders typically charge exorbitant interest rates which are insensitive to interest rates in the organised money markets . |
| 30 | It is well known that Pythagoras ' belief in the significance of numbers was supported by his alleged discovery , with the aid of a stringed instrument , that the concordant intervals of the musical scale correspond to simple numerical ratios . |