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

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1 It is never possible to be certain what the situation would have been in the absence of any such policy nor is it possible to know what the outcome of a different policy might have been .
2 it will be interesting to know what the Police Band costs , which the ratepayers never hear , and what did the rodeo , performed by the Mounted Section , cost the long-suffering ratepayers ?
3 Erm quite rightly the director said that predictions in terms of residential admissions and nursing home admissions would be easier to make this year than last year and I accept it was very difficult then year but I 'd just like to know how close the actual outcome is likely to be to the original prediction , really for information , not because I think you could have got it any closer than did but it would be just interesting to know what the s the gap was .
4 It would have been interesting to know what the men at the front thought of this account of their endeavours .
5 And I 'd be interested to know what the masses of London think . ’
6 I am sure that the House would be interested to know what the Labour party 's industrial policy is for the motor industry .
7 That is what the governor of that offenders centre had to say , and I should be very interested to know what the Minister of State has done since she read that report in the newspaper .
8 Erm as far as his sort of doubts as to , as to what er what the actual State benefits are , I 'm interested to know what the answer is to overco overcome that one unless you actually got a , a leaflet with you know the
9 IT is impossible to know what the IRA hopes to gain from its current wave of bombing .
10 And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now .
11 For these reasons , it is useful to know what the words , phrases and constructions are which regularly conceal presuppositions , so that you know what you are letting yourself in for when you use them .
12 But it is useful to know what the conventional rules are , and also to bear in mind who you are writing for .
13 this afternoon , but we wo n't all be in that workshop , sorry , just to have , perhaps Samantha , if you 'd just say what of the new communications strategy , I think members ourselves , but in a sense it would be very useful to know what the others , perhaps we could take some of it back with us .
14 This class of injury is the most common of all and we all know what a bruise is and how it is caused .
15 ‘ I think we all know what a knobstick is , metaphorically . ’
16 And you all know what a shadow is .
17 Well like I mean we all know what a bell is , a bell which is set off by by a human body coming in .
18 Well , we all know what the something more is , do n't we ? ’
19 It has particular interest in that we all know what the word means and yet none of us know what curiosity actually is .
20 right , now what do you like about driving , I mean er the , you , know , you all know what the car is , what , what , what 's , what appeals , is it just something you have to do , is it a necessity or is it actually because you enjoy it ?
21 ‘ … and we all know what the weary warrior wants after battle … ’
22 Tonight should be pretty lively , political rally , we all know what the subject 's gon na be about .
23 We all know what the Labour party will do to the higher rate , but even it does not seem to know what it will do to the tax on middle managers — national insurance contributions .
24 Now we all know what the District Council view is .
25 And , having watched the recent coal fiasco , we all know what the next step is once an unwanted raw material has been identified ; you stop its production .
26 Scott explained the choice of a modern radio magazine format to report on the events of 1944 : they all knew what a modern programme was like , but had only heard extracts from wartime broadcasts .
27 Another reason for rejecting this causal theory of meaning is that when one asks what is meant by a statement one is normally concerned to know what a reasonable speaker is saying in uttering it .
28 It 's important to know what a man likes .
29 If you think you might want to take an HIV antibody test to find out if you are infected , it is important to know what the test can and can not tell you .
30 It is important to know what the acceleration of a body down a surface would be without friction as a start to explaining its actual acceleration .
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