Example sentences of "[adv] know [that] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , she was grown-up enough to know that to please a man you needed to listen to him , and in fact it was no hardship at all to listen to Karl ( unlike Georg , who spoke only of the farm ) . |
| 2 | You 're also wise enough to know that finding the person who 's right for you requires a very subtle alchemy . |
| 3 | What books or articles do I already know that address my main question ? |
| 4 | Stated in these simple terms , the anti-cruelty position 's most obvious weakness is that it assumes that we already know that trapping wild animals is justified , if only it is done ‘ as humanely as possible ’ . |
| 5 | In addition , retinoic acid is insoluble in water and so would remain where we put it in the limb for some time ; this was important because we already knew that to exert its effect the grafted polarizing region needed more than 12 hours . |
| 6 | ‘ I always knew that finishing the publication cycle was a necessary precondition to anything else happening . |
| 7 | But you and I both know that applying for a stay of more than six months takes time . |
| 8 | And we also know that maintaining good health is a matter of having the right routine , getting into good habits . |
| 9 | The Captain also knew that mining the shallows was an unlikely precaution and technically difficult , thus leaving open a side entrance to the port . |
| 10 | He also knew that shouting at Lennie was the only way to make him understand . |
| 11 | I also knew that experience in working with other birds would be useful to me in the long term . |
| 12 | Just as it dislikes the thought of securitising its mortgage assets — ‘ why give away margin ? ’ asks Jon Foulds , its chairman since 1990 — so it also knows that underwriting the insurance it sells would eventually be more profitable than taking commissions from Standard Life . |
| 13 | Now two things have happened — one is that better , safer pills have been introduced , but secondly a lot of the scares which there were of five or ten years ago , have been shown to be quite unjustified , so we now know that using the more modern of the oral contraceptives erm there 's really very little risk indeed . |
| 14 | We now know that recorded GDP slumped by 0.5% during the year . |
| 15 | The Sonar and Radar pioneers did n't know it then , but all the world now knows that bats , or rather natural selection working on bats , had perfected the system tens of millions of years earlier , and their " radar " achieves feats of detection and navigation that would strike an engineer dumb with admiration . |
| 16 | I did n't even know that existed . |
| 17 | It is very well known that dreams often contain elements — visual or ideational — that can be identified as being part of the previous day 's experiment . |
| 18 | It is well known that published economic statistics are subject to revision at a later date so that the current view of where we are now may be misleading . |
| 19 | Oh well we 've never known that have we ? |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't hold your breath , ’ said Shelley , miserably knowing that persuading her to stay was the very last thing Miguel Rafaelo would do . |