Example sentences of "[adj] know [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | By such a refined technique as this it is possible to know what was happening in various aggradation deposits at various periods of Post-glacial history . |
| 2 | Secondly , the World Church erm is your agenda in the sense that you might be interested to know there is a erm a video now available , er which introduces the work of CWM for the churches . |
| 3 | It was the letter that really upset you — rather than my stupidity in not being sufficiently clairvoyant to know it was the chef 's day off . ’ |
| 4 | But you 'll be relieved to know I 'm not going . |
| 5 | I 'm downright flabbergasted to know you 're treatin' Dolly so unkind an' beatin' 'er as well . |
| 6 | It was almost impossible to know which were coopers and carpenters and which smiths . |
| 7 | It was impossible to know what was going on in her mind , but he was thankful that she seemed in no way agitated . |
| 8 | It 's hard to know what 's best for you . |
| 9 | Considering the relativism eating into faith today , it is hard to know which is more surprising — that so many people lose their faith or that more people do not . |
| 10 | It is hard to know which is more frustrating : having to do what you do n't want , do n't agree with and have n't been consulted about ; or not being able , through lack of time , energy and support , actually to do what you do want . |
| 11 | She stared until it was hard to know which was herself — the disconsolate woman in the chill room or the other sorrowful face in the night outside . |
| 12 | It is hard to know who was the more aggrieved by this insult . |
| 13 | But it 's very reassuring to know I am in safe hands here , ’ says Ken . |
| 14 | Scottish Office Ministers are extremely selective about when we are operating in a unitary Parliament with unitary interests and when we are operating as a small segment of the United Kingdom when that segment is not supposed to know what is going on in another . |
| 15 | They believed practicalities like how parents are supposed to know what is happening in the nursery should be clarified , and that there were records available for parents to look at and in some cases contribute to , in connection with their own child and with the nursery in general . |
| 16 | You lot ai n't supposed to know I 'm taping . |
| 17 | You were n't supposed to know I was seeing him . |
| 18 | Glad to know he was n't a bad man , not a thief , after all . |
| 19 | She thought he must be disappointed that she was n't going home , and realised in dismay that she 'd wanted him to be glad to know she was staying . |
| 20 | The socially ambitious know it is the lord lieutenant who arranges who gets to meet the Queen , so the embossed invitations to his receptions are rarely refused . |
| 21 | Maxim looked back expressionless knowing she was babbling from nervousness knowing his own stolid attitude was nervousness too . |
| 22 | If we have decided on a moderate degree of modulation , it is well to know what is most effective and what subsequent progressions ( to return to the tonic ) are good . |
| 23 | The public were curious to know what was going on , often trying to get their reflection in the mirror in order to appear on television , and then there was the problem of health and safety and too much camera equipment in a confined space , and then the light was n't quite right … |
| 24 | Constance , on her side , had become sufficiently worldly to know what was expected of her when she returned home . |
| 25 | Do you have any conception of what it felt like to know I was about to lose you ? ’ |
| 26 | It 's good to know ours is n't the only State Department with too many back doors . ’ |
| 27 | it 's good to know they 're maybe still lying on somebody 's floor . |
| 28 | But even if they 're unseen , it 's good to know they 're back . |
| 29 | ‘ But it is good to know they are monitoring his progress . ’ |
| 30 | Of course , being down to earth is one of Pam 's greatest strengths , and it 's good to know she 's back on track and that we 'll still be able to laugh with her for a while yet . |