Example sentences of "[is] to know " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ The important thing is to know the time delay between when the fire starts and the detector operates , ’ says Peter Burray , head of fire detection at the station . |
| 32 | The problem is to know how to pick out those thieves with high-lying ears . |
| 33 | Children read a wide variety of things , from the back of the cereal packet to The Dandy , from a page of the daily newspaper to something written by Roald Dahl , and who is to know what will trigger off ideas , possibilities , expectations , or activity ? |
| 34 | Rather it is to know him personally , intimately . |
| 35 | What does make living for Jesus at school a lot easier is to know that you are not alone ; that there are other Christians who agree with what you believe and who can maybe encourage you when the going gets a bit tough . |
| 36 | And the best remedy for this doubt is to know the sure and sufficient reasons God has given us , to know why we can know God is there , to know why we can trust his revelation as true , to know why we can be sure of his love and his goodness , and to stand firm in our understanding of these truths . |
| 37 | ‘ I lived in Los Angeles , so I know all there is to know about diets . |
| 38 | Pam and Malc , being my soul-mates , know everything there is to know about me . |
| 39 | In other words , the investigating authorities should know everything there is to know about such a family , both from inside that family , and from contacts outside . |
| 40 | How comforting it is to know that Charles can communicate so well with people who are 40 or 50 years older than himself . |
| 41 | Part of the art of film making is to know how long to allow for the length of each shot . |
| 42 | The problem is to know how to strike the right balance . |
| 43 | The key ability is to know to address problems early and to know what you can reasonably expect the banks to do . |
| 44 | The female way is to know and to tame . |
| 45 | The vital thing is to know what you are getting into before you get into it and to make sure that , even with the slow payment , it is still a good deal and that you will have enough cash to survive until you are paid . |
| 46 | Their job is to know where humans are going . ’ |
| 47 | In my opinion , this is all there is to know about frogs . |
| 48 | The trick is to know the limitations of the design and stay strictly within them . |
| 49 | Braithwaite ( 1979b : 130 ) believes that , ‘ government lawyers , who must in many ways be all-rounders , can not compete with the corporation lawyer who spends his whole life finding out all there is to know about a narrowly delimited area of ‘ legal loop-holes ’ ' . |
| 50 | The first is that to know ‘ I ’ by description is to know it not as ‘ that which is aware of something ’ or which has a mental state ’ but as , in Hume 's words ' ‘ a bundle or collection of different perceptions ’ . |
| 51 | In knowing that something is an order one knows all there is to know about its relation to its execution . |
| 52 | Here , Ritschl was following up a famous dictum of Luther 's younger contemporary and associate , Philip Melanchthon in his Loci Communes of 1521 , ‘ To know Christ is to know his benefits , not … to contemplate his natures . ’ |
| 53 | To understand a Fregean representation is to know how to interpret it so as to establish what it is referring to , basically by the method described by the logician Frege as applying functions to arguments . |
| 54 | Meanwhile the GP 's charisma is maintained through the paradox that increasing knowledge and control through science creates new uncertainties ( the more we know , the more we realise how much more there is to know ) . |
| 55 | The most difficult thing is to know when to stop and when I feel as though the painting is nearly there I usually stop , make myself a cup of coffee , and contemplate what I have achieved from the comfort of a kitchen stool . |
| 56 | The problem is to know how far to link the rise and fall of the two media not to each other but to some independent factor . |
| 57 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |
| 58 | A bald statement that the exercise of public functions may be challenged by judicial review does not , however , tell us all there is to know about the sort of decisions which are amenable to judicial review ; and so now we must consider a number of distinctions which can be drawn between types of public functions . |
| 59 | The art of communication is to know how your message is being received by others and how to respond to the messages you receive . |
| 60 | The key to good writing is to know what you want to say . |