Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] that [pers pn] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for . |
| 2 | The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers . |
| 3 | The result is that you know who bought what and where . |
| 4 | The main point about a search is that we know what we are looking for and often we know where to look . |
| 5 | and the biggest tragedy is that I know you know what you want to say |
| 6 | The advantage to the offeror over a share offer with a cash alternative is that it knows in advance that it will only have to make available fixed pools of each type of consideration . |
| 7 | And at each instant of its happening , its bitter-sweet wonder is that you know it ca n't last . |
| 8 | The next issue is that we know that these prospective inward investors are likely to be looking for a site in reasonably attractive setting . |
| 9 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 10 | The only reason he did n't stop to annihilate both of us on his way home was that he knew there was n't a minute to lose . |
| 11 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |
| 12 | Another thing about Steven Hughes Conference is that he knows what he 's talking about , on on shop floor iss issues like health and safety and those colleagues who were present at the launch of the G M B's National Health and Safety Campaign will confirm that especially the way he described the Chief Executive of the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 13 | Perhaps a telling comment on this is that a major reason for the recruitment of top , superannuated civil servants into business is that they know their way round the political labyrinth of Whitehall . |
| 14 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 15 | The other thing that I wonder might have some bearing is that I know parts of Sally Park and Sally Oak and they 're very acid , they can grow rhododendrons and azaleas and things very well . |
| 16 | ‘ The trouble is that I know that all the time he 's only trying to ingratiate himself in order to get me to agree to a merger . |
| 17 | Well my feeling is that you know if yo if you 're car does n't run tinker with the carburettor and if it still is n't running right , tinker with something else , if you like , the fatal thing is to tinker with both because then you just do n't know what you 've got , and erm she 's been on , on this hormone replacement which is er er no big deal but , you know , hormones are |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm a businessman first and a boxer second , and the reason I 'm so successful as a pugilist is that I know my limitations better than anyone else . ’ |
| 19 | THE great advantage of having a former chief secretary to the Treasury as transport secretary is that he knows a thing or two about raising money . |
| 20 | One main reason is that I know that the other person thinks I will act as promised and therefore she will do something which she would not do otherwise . |
| 21 | Erm , yeah the important thing is that they know . |
| 22 | An' like the worst thing is that y' know the people who are like supposed to represent the people on our estate , y' know the Daily Mirror an' The Sun , an ITV an' the Unions , what are they tellin' people to do ? |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't mind where I go , but I prefer opening , and the main thing is that you know where you are . ’ |
| 24 | Well the thing is that you know erm somebody 's got no hair they think , a lot of this the problem revolve round the baldness , and er they have n't come to term with it . |
| 25 | thing is that you know we were at w we , actually we got lost and were asking directions . |
| 26 | The thing is that you know |
| 27 | The strange thing was that she knew it was Ernest 's bell , the bell she had tactfully told him would be unsuitable for the kind of school he had in mind . |
| 28 | There was n't a spare bed , for a start — but the main thing was that she knew it would annoy Alan . |
| 29 | The challenge with which we were faced on the day of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion was that we knew that a very full House , which had come to hear the prime minister 's Maastricht statement , would deplete rapidly after he was finished , as the business to follow — a debate on the Earth Summit — was not very controversial . |
| 30 | Your advantage is that you know Oldenburg , that you speak Russian , that you 're a trained professional and that you have an excellent cover . ’ |