Example sentences of "[pers pn] know to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's full of hope and warmth , and utterly convincing , down to the catch in Christy 's voice , which from past experience , I know to be genuine . |
| 2 | This overt intervention in our lives was experienced by me as entirely beneficent , so I find it difficult to match an analysis of the welfare policies of the late forties which calls " the post-war Labour government … the last and most glorious flowering of late Victorian liberal philanthropy " , 6 which I know to be correct , with the sense of self that those policies imparted . |
| 3 | Here is a signature that I know to be genuine , on a document guaranteeing his overdraft of over twenty years ago , signed in my presence . |
| 4 | In any event , Miss Kyte — at least Theda , for that I know to be her real name — is not to lose by this . |
| 5 | Will he convey to the Prime Minister what I know to be the view of the three party leaders who represent Northern Ireland in the House — that we are endeavouring diligently to meet the wishes that he expressed at the Downing street meeting on 11 February ? |
| 6 | I can only put down what I know to be the truth as far as I can tell . |
| 7 | And then he said something which , entering the realms of my own modest experience , I knew to be wrong . |
| 8 | I began to reckon up the people whom I knew to be prisoners . |
| 9 | Thus was I punished for wanting to go to these places , which I knew to be prisons for God . |
| 10 | I wanted to choose for myself , yes , but I also wanted to escape into a world of certainties , which I knew to be unreal while desperately wanting to believe that it might have some reality . |
| 11 | Lochinver was a magnet , largely because of the strange mountains I knew to be in its vicinity , and I longed to go there . |
| 12 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 13 | ‘ I could find nothing that I knew to be untrue . |
| 14 | And I found many details that I knew to be true . |
| 15 | Anyway , I met Salinger in London to go over the story with him and confirmed those parts of it I knew to be true . |
| 16 | In the next letter he wrote me , dated 7 May , he announced that he was to have a holiday ; and this I knew to be much overdue . |
| 17 | However , conditions for the time of the year seemed favourable and I was in hopeful mood as I rowed carefully out on the meadow side to a drop-off at about 70 yards I knew to be there . |
| 18 | I said I was n't sure , but I gave them a phone number which I knew to be Nassim 's office above a leather warehouse in Brick Lane . |
| 19 | Never apply it to a document that you know to be false or incorrect . |
| 20 | Construct the nonsense words to fit what you know to be the specific difficulties of the pupils . |
| 21 | Keep a write-protected bootable floppy handy ; one that you know to be clean and virus-free . |
| 22 | At the very least you should consult two historians whose views you know to be opposed or at variance . |
| 23 | You know to be made up into underwear and garments . |
| 24 | You know to be the opposite to the purple . |
| 25 | ( 99 ) … in civil or criminal cases you must not put forward what you know to be a false case . |
| 26 | ‘ Is there anyone in Monte Samana whom you know to be a suspect , Dr Rafaelo ? ’ |
| 27 | Er it would n't have been so bad you know because we when we set out first it was just you know to be successful at home and then we were successful over here and that was you know was the serious big surprise . |
| 28 | But then in seventy nine we had a hit at home with Bunch of Time and that as far as we were concerned was the end of the road you know to be successful in Ireland and then late eighty one , early eighty two you know they started playing Bunch of Time over here and it became a top twenty hit for us and that you know changed the whole thing round about and got us from say the pubs in Ireland into the concert circuit in England which we 've been doing ever since . |
| 29 | She went her own way , made her own successes and failures , and cared for no opinion but her own , apart from that of people she knew to be her intellectual equals or superiors . |
| 30 | Jean 's innate strength of character saw her fight the condition that she knew to be taking over her life . |