Example sentences of "knew to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsey went out of his years at school with a sense of contentment which in retrospect he knew to be a veneer . |
| 2 | Charles took one look at the proffered platitudes , which he knew to be absurd , and set about writing an alternative . |
| 3 | Between the 1st day of July 1987 and the 15th day of October 1987 conspired together and with other persons fraudulently to induce persons to enter into agreements for acquiring or subscribing for securities , namely shares in Blue Arrow plc , by making statements which they knew to be misleading , false or deceptive or by dishonestly concealing material facts or by recklessly making statements which were misleading , false or deceptive namely : 1.1 By failing to notify the Company Announcements Office of the Quotations Department of the International Stock Exchange by way of a Class 2 announcement ( as provided for by Section 6 of the Council of the Stock Exchange 's admission of securities to listing ) following the purchase of shares in Manpower Incorporated for a consideration in excess of 5 per cent of the consolidated net assets of Blue Arrow ; 1.2 By concealing the fact that the level of Acceptances of provisionally allotted new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow was 38.04 per cent at the expiry of the offer by way of rights issue at 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.3 By concealing the fact that 54,625,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow were taken up after 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.4 By falsely stating that , in connection with the rights issue of 504.4 million new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow , acceptances had been received in respect of 246.5 million shares which represented 48.9 per cent of the rights issue . |
| 4 | The gap between what history teachers were telling their classes and what people instinctively knew to be true had become unbearably wide . |
| 5 | Without Angela Morgan , at least two major clients were in danger of not getting the assiduous service they were paying for , and it would be well worth trying to see if one of them , whom he knew to be a fellow refugee from family life at the weekends , could be found . |
| 6 | Mrs Huntley sighed ; her brother whom she had loved , but knew to be self-indulgent to a fault , had done his niece real harm by leaving so much of his money away from the girl who had confidently believed herself to be his favourite thing on earth . |
| 7 | And then he said something which , entering the realms of my own modest experience , I knew to be wrong . |
| 8 | By heavy amercements and by imprisonment he had compelled the regarders to make their regard in the ‘ purlieus ’ — that is , in districts which had been disafforested ; he had prevented the forest inhabitants from exercising their rights , even those conceded by royal charter and writs , unless they paid fines therefor before the Forest justices , and at Forest inquests he had compelled Forest officers and juries , under threat of imprisonment , to indict persons whom they knew to be innocent . |
| 9 | Fear can do that to you , as some of the girls present knew to their cost . |
| 10 | He had no problems in stocking these from the Far East , India or the Cape with help from Dutch merchant-ship captains , but he wanted to obtain those North American novelties which he knew to be flourishing at Chelsea , so in July 1736 Linnaeus came to England with a letter of introduction from Boerhaave to Sir Hans Sloane . |
| 11 | She 'd taken a shine to Tom Rudge whom she now knew to be an apprentice fitter , as was Cyril , his mate . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Chivalrous to a fault , the story of his taking only £100 of the £400 he knew to be aboard a stagecoach at Bagshot , on the condition that an attractive lady passenger would dance with him , is authentic . |
| 14 | Mrs Barnes , returned to her cottage , amazingly kept her silence for twelve years , only revealing what she knew to a local magistrate , Anthony Bridges in 1587 . |
| 15 | He had been drinking all day with Slatter on 3 April , they had consumed some fourteen or fifteen quarts of ale , they had entered the Chequers , where they had been involved in an argument with two large men he now knew to be Hewett and Charlton . |
| 16 | Since the only way she knew to the foundry was the route of her guided tour earlier that day , she was obliged to retrace it . |
| 17 | Colonel Jones … knew to a minute where the next shell would fall . |
| 18 | Jean 's innate strength of character saw her fight the condition that she knew to be taking over her life . |
| 19 | I began to reckon up the people whom I knew to be prisoners . |
| 20 | Thus was I punished for wanting to go to these places , which I knew to be prisons for God . |
| 21 | Whether this was Winston 's idea , or His Majesty 's I do not know , but I so strongly suspect His Majesty who we knew to be one of the best Kings we have ever had . |
| 22 | ( Gary was the only exception I knew to this rule , and then only when he was up to no good ) . ’ |
| 23 | Why did Galileo make his abjuration at the trial , admitting what he knew to be a lie ? |
| 24 | They agreed to support policies most of them knew to be damaging , misguided and inhuman . |
| 25 | She never asked if she could help in the kitchen since she knew Alice would be irritated by an offer which she knew to be impractical and insincere . |
| 26 | The last point , far from being the hardest on which to reach agreement , was the easiest : it was cleared out of the way at the very beginning , Gandhi accepting Irwin 's formulation without demur and apparently feeling no discomfort at disregarding what he knew to be the views of the Congress Working Committee . |
| 27 | In this new life which had been thrust upon her , she felt that she must surround herself with a little group of servants whom she knew to be loyal to her . |
| 28 | In case Laing was unfamiliar with it , he told the young man what he now knew to be true . |
| 29 | Laing decided to write it all down , from start to finish , to include copies of his printouts , which he knew to be genuine , and to send a copy to every member of the bank 's Board in New York . |
| 30 | She was uncertain as to the position of this girl whom she knew to be daughter to a washerwoman but whom the dowager-duchess , a lady of formal demeanour and rigid etiquette , none the less treated as one of higher status . |