Example sentences of "[adv] know that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was shrewd enough to know that to be too greedy with Jared Tunstall might lose him everything . |
| 2 | ‘ I only know that during the half-hour or so I sat staring through the top windows of the tram , I saw nothing , not one single thing , that could possibly raise a man 's spirits . |
| 3 | I only know that by going to school and |
| 4 | I only know that in 1990 I had to pay £20,000 or thereabouts in interest repayments alone for a business loan excluding repayment of the mortgage . |
| 5 | How long he lay against Mick he did n't know ; he only knew that between the sounds he had been emitting and the wash of tears that seemed to have drained him dry , a voice within him had kept repeating : ‘ She killed your father , Mick ; she killed your father . |
| 6 | He only knew that in his anxious and over-concerned life his second greatest fear was that she might leave . |
| 7 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 8 | He did not know that in his last months he had developed a fatal heart condition . |
| 9 | But they did not know that in the beginning , as Mrs Irving expatiated in her cracked and gracious voice on the high brick wall which dated from the Civil War , and earlier still , which had formed one boundary of General Fairfax 's lands when Putney was a separate village , when Cromwell 's Trained Bands assembled there , when the Putney Debates on liberty of conscience were held in St Mary 's Church on the bridge . |
| 10 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 11 | Mr. Burgess did not know that in fact the deceased 's investments were worth about £105,000 . |
| 12 | Outgoings will vary but in my own case I already know that for gas , water and the poll tax I shall need an extra £132 . |
| 13 | No one would have constructed them in the form they have if he had not known that at all costs he must , when it comes to experimental predictions , obtain those same results which the statistically interpreted Schrödinger equation seems to produce so economically and naturally . |
| 14 | It may not be generally known that on the first Tuesday of each month there is an Interdenominational Church Service at 10.30 am at the Nursing Home which is usually well attended . |
| 15 | It does not seem generally known that for more than a year after VJ Day more than 120,000 Allied POWs were kept in internment camps in Java . |
| 16 | It is not generally known that among the sculptured panels at the top of the Library facade , there is one featuring two children fingerspelling at each other the first two letters of the alphabet . |
| 17 | A second reason for doubting that genes were made of DNA was that proteins are chemically much more interesting , and it was already known that at least some genetic abnormalities are caused by the absence of specific proteins . |
| 18 | She was frequently appalled at her own ability to lie convincingly , thought that perhaps she got it from Papa , one of the world 's great tricksters — not knowing that on occasion her apparently innocent mama had the gift as well . |
| 19 | This generous man with guinea-gold hair had come into her life so unexpectedly , but she just knew that like a guinea he would slip through her fingers before she had a chance to know him better . |
| 20 | Even when I could n't rightly understand him , I always knew that at the heart of his talk there was summat good — sum mat true . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend will also know that as part of ’ Defence for the 90s ’ we are reviewing the scope of naval support , although as I made clear in July , there will be a continuing naval presence at Portland . |
| 22 | Did you also know that in Britain neither sanitary towels nor tampons are sterilised , despite what their individual wrapping might suggest ? |
| 23 | However , you need also to know that in a very few cases , you can get a negative result even though you are infected . |
| 24 | The athletes know them , and also know that on certain occasions they are being looked at for selection purposes . |
| 25 | You also know that on page nine of our interest statement we have created a non-distributable special reserve against which we are writing off our good-will reserve . |
| 26 | We also know that at about the age of 13 a very high proportion of boys are attracted to science and scientific careers . |
| 27 | As a literal Earth-mother , she may have been the prototype of the Rhea of the later myths , but we also know that at least in the fourteenth century BC the Minoans knew her as Eleuthia . |
| 28 | We also know that at any one time there are approximately one million lone-parent households caring for 1 . |
| 29 | ‘ We also know that in squash players , sudden exercise can produce abnormal heart rhythms which can cause death . ’ |
| 30 | We also know that in a number of countries labour disputes are brought before so called ‘ Labour Courts ’ for resolution . |