Example sentences of "[conj] knowing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sensing , or knowing , that my days in my native land were numbered , he asked me if I needed foreign currency . |
| 2 | She would like to hear from mothers about experiences , such as predicting their babies needs or knowing of their babies feelings without being present . |
| 3 | Gandhi in fact does conceive the purpose of life to be to know the Self , which for him is equivalent to realizing God or knowing the Truth . |
| 4 | These may be very simple things , such as ‘ seeing ’ that a friend will be getting in touch shortly , or knowing what is coming in tomorrow 's post . |
| 5 | He was a very nice young man and did bear some small resemblance to me which I supposed was why his mother , perhaps not knowing who his father was , or knowing but having been abandoned by him , had woven this fantasy about a familiar figure from the television screen . |
| 6 | I was , simply , not prepared to go on with the discomfort of feeling — or knowing other people might feel — that I was in any way neglecting my family . |
| 7 | It blames current top management and the board itself for not understanding how bad the problems are or knowing how to solve them . |
| 8 | At first it seemed that Francis was going to leave it at that , the ball in his court , but in fact he was trying to decide which would annoy her most : being kept in the dark about his conversation with Anna or knowing the truth . |
| 9 | Section 12(1) states : … a person shall be guilty of an offence if , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority , he takes any conveyance for his own or another 's use or knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it . |
| 10 | Erm but basically you , you would be going in to a village to , to try and encourage land reform with this document or knowing that this document existed . |
| 11 | unforeseen or , or knowing expenditure , what is unforeseen is when the expenditure is going to occur |
| 12 | or knowing what the minimum required was |
| 13 | Honestly , I do n't think it matters knowing how to program , or knowing how to make the machines actually work . |
| 14 | It was so funny — as I walked along , rather disconsolate in the rain , at midday , I suddenly recollected it was Mayday , & knowing I ought to be bright & rejoicing I forthwith was so , at least for a time . |
| 15 | Julian , although knowing through putting them on his arms that they were of different lengths , said they were ‘ the same ’ . |
| 16 | Erica , although knowing none of this , had grown more scathing , with her outsider 's eye . |
| 17 | I said , ‘ I think you should know how to cook a few things , in case they ask you to feed the children , ’ but she seemed to think that knowing how to make a Marmite sandwich would be enough . |
| 18 | It does not necessarily follow that knowing more about alcohol will automatically result in more responsible drinking attitudes and behaviour , that is , the second course objective . |
| 19 | She had no idea that knowing Marion Aluinn , Hector did n't think her very pretty . |
| 20 | We begin to realize more deeply that knowing God and knowing ourselves is a single process . |
| 21 | In our clinic we have constructed a centile graph for percentage ideal or desirable bodyweight based on medium frame size , so that knowing actual weight and height we can derive the percentage ideal bodyweight at a glance without calculation ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 22 | The reason that knowing is different from guessing or dreaming is that knowledge implies an unspoken submission to what is real or thought to be real . |
| 23 | The latter are shapes so memorable that knowing they exist matters more than actually seeing them . |
| 24 | A further objection to ‘ know ’ is that knowing a proposition to be true is independent of viewpoint , so that there would be no possibility of an imperative ‘ Know ’ proving like ‘ Be aware ’ to be relevant to morals . |
| 25 | We also reject the belief that knowing how to use terminology in which to speak of language is undesirable . |
| 26 | FROGS : Some people think that knowing about frogs is important . |
| 27 | Let us consider just two of them : ( 1 ) Is it true that the word ‘ here ’ is an exception to the rule that knowing the meaning of a word means knowing what is meant by it , that is , knowing something which we call by that word ? and ( 2 ) Supposing that the word ‘ here ’ can be used meaningfully without our knowing something which we call ‘ here ’ , are Russell and McTaggart right in their assumption that the word ‘ I ’ is not like ‘ here ’ in this respect ? |
| 28 | This is not to say that knowing an individual 's class location is sufficient to be able to predict her beliefs . |
| 29 | But an important thing to recognise at the outset is that knowing about oneself can never be a matter of ‘ mere information ’ . |
| 30 | ( Crick , 1979 , p. 132 ) The language is not so hard to understand , and it is jejune to suppose that not knowing it has impeded philosophy , or that knowing it will help a lot . ) |