Example sentences of "know [conj] [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How do you know that Artai will let me go ? ’ |
| 2 | Thus , whilst women who smoke may know that smoking could damage their health , there is no evidence that they experienced smoking as having any immediate impact on their self-perceived strength and fitness . |
| 3 | Often women with bulimia do not know that vomiting can cause physical and emotional problems such as depression , withdrawal , anxiety , guilt and shame . |
| 4 | Do n't you know that faith can move mountains and build pageants out of gold and silver ? ’ |
| 5 | There had been good reason to know that Labour could damage Unionist electoral prospects and the dangerous prospect of a class-based party system had been present in the Liberal-Labour alliance . |
| 6 | She wanted to explain , but did n't know if fitzAlan would listen ; longed for gentleness , but was braced for anger . |
| 7 | Suppose that the patient has said to his doctor , ‘ I am an old man , I know that cancer will kill me fairly soon . |
| 8 | In fact , since the mpc is 0.8 and the mpm is 0.2 , we know that consumption will rise by £1.6 million of which £0.4 million will be additional expenditure on imports . |
| 9 | We all know that tennis must attract increasing numbers and so enlarge the base of the pyramid . |
| 10 | We know that unemployment will rise . |
| 11 | Trials on women suffering from advanced breast cancer start soon , but it 'll be at least five years before scientists know whether gestodene can help treat the disease and 15 before it 's known if it can help prevent it . |
| 12 | She had always known that Finn would reappear , because for a time they always did , never quite sure that the new woman was an improvement on the old one , keeping their options open . |
| 13 | In the field of cancer therapy it is well known that irradiation can cause tumours and yet they can also be treated by radiation and many of the drugs used in chemotherapy for tumours can also cause tumours . |
| 14 | It was known that fasting could cause hallucinations , and extreme weather conditions were thought to affect the mind . |
| 15 | ‘ Be it also known that mutation can twist the rune-signs written in gene-seed . |
| 16 | While it is well known that machair may extend as much as 2 km inland in South Uist , less well known is the altitude to which blown shell sand exerts an ecological influence : the dunes at Luskentyre Banks ( NG 0699 ) are up to 35 m high , while the presence of large amounts of wind-blown shell fragments is evident from the presence of charophytes in lochs on Tairaval ( NB 1135 ) ( Angus , unpublished NCC report ) and at Mangersta ( NB 0131 ) ( Biagi et al 1985 ) , both sites being more than 50 m above sea level . |
| 17 | It is not yet known whether research would confirm these hypotheses of the character of certain distinct twentieth-century paranational cultural formations , though they provide an initial basis for considering the contradictory character of the history of the avant-garde movements : that they represent sharp and even violent breaks with received and traditional practices ( a dissidence or revolt rather than a literal avant garde ) ; and yet that they become ( in ways separable from the important facts of their dilution and commercial exploitation ) the dominant culture of a succeeding metropolitan and paranational period . |
| 18 | He accepted this programme , and half knew that Montini would have to carry it through . |
| 19 | Adam knew that Elinor would go to great lengths to avoid being called unprofessional . |
| 20 | She knew that success would come if she could convince readers that it was not a novel designed as mere entertainment but a moral tale designed to expose an evil and enhance the moral status of the reader . |
| 21 | He knew that Goodenache would respond better to a woman . |
| 22 | We hoped that the gene bank might ultimately contain 500 collections , and we knew that maintenance would become a problem sooner or later . |
| 23 | I wondered why I had n't had the wit to take the starveling cat to Mother Joseph as soon as I knew that Nour might kill it . |
| 24 | They were boys who knew that death could come close . |
| 25 | No-one knows whether openness could have prevented these tragedies . |