Example sentences of "[modal v] know [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small factory she 'd approached to undertake the making of the curtains , cushions and loose covers told her they 'd be ready to start in a few weeks ' time , and even allowing for this wildly optimistic schedule , she felt she ought to know when to expect delivery of the fabrics . |
| 2 | Oh yeah well you ought to ask , you ought to know how to spell with . |
| 3 | Ants lay down these chemical markers on the road to a food supply so that they and their fellows may know where to go . |
| 4 | When searching , we may know where to look or we may have to scan around to find out where to direct our search more intensely . |
| 5 | He 's a superb Secretary for Trade and Industry , and I shall be here answering questions every Tuesday and Thursday , and I hope one day he may know how to ask a good one . |
| 6 | Thus , even though a fraudulent sender may know how to access the network and establish a valid identity , he can not obtain possession of the goods without the use of the private key . |
| 7 | A racing cyclist must know how to recover from humiliations . |
| 8 | She must know how to give or take his hand and always to acknowledge his presence as an equal partner in the dance . |
| 9 | Should you ever possess a whole ham on the bone , you must know how to carve it properly , otherwise you will waste a great deal of meat and subsequently be eating ham soup for ages . |
| 10 | You must know how to go about a revision of this kind . |
| 11 | He must know how to lift or catch her in different ways from a static position or jump without any sign of strain . |
| 12 | You are bone and wood , Grandmother , so you must know how to save us . |
| 13 | He or she must know how to exercise pastoral care , what to do in order to observe requirements of health and safety , how to handle links with parents , how to weigh the significance of community connections , what to understand about the world of work and how to regard a teacher 's individual position within the structure of the education service at large . |
| 14 | Thus the pupil must know how to correspond to these sacrifices of the people by obtaining good marks and being exemplary . |
| 15 | They must know how to make use of and when necessary discard the old conventional rules . |
| 16 | If the receiver 's language is known to be totally different , then the communicator must know how to switch into that language . |
| 17 | The child must know how to win back the favour of its parents . |
| 18 | The child must know how to win it back . |
| 19 | That day , Arnór Jarlaskáld had made one of his erratic descents upon Orkney , and the talk in the hall was worth listening to , as was the singing , but it was as well that the women should know when to leave . |
| 20 | The facility with which not only politicians but people who should know better argue for education in the name of economic growth is frightening . |
| 21 | At the same time they should know how to order the right meal and whether , when work is done , they should take their client to the opera or a night club or let him go home . |
| 22 | She should know how to behave . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | By the delicacy of her person and the brilliancy of her eye she had tinder enough in her constitution to catch a well struck spark and I trusted I should know how to set her ablaze in a few months more . |
| 25 | He spoke of the need to ‘ discern the signs of the times ’ : ‘ We should make our own Jesus ’ advice that we should know how to discern ‘ the signs of the times ’ ( Matthew 16.4 ) , and we seem to see now , in the midst of so much darkness , a few hints which augur well for the fate of the Church and humanity' ( Abbott , p. 704 ) . |
| 26 | Ideally , all drivers should know how to handle a skidding car . |
| 27 | Thus , in the cognitive domain , the user should know how to make use of specific databases and information systems for information retrieval . |
| 28 | A very simple and effective thing for the teacher to do is to comment on errors , not as a complaint ( " You should know how to spell that word by now " ) but as praise for the attempt . |
| 29 | Right , so she should know how to spell number four |
| 30 | So you should know how to spell carriage another time , it 's exactly the same as marriage |