Example sentences of "know that [pron] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , Michael and I could not let the people know that we were enemies . |
| 2 | If they are going to succeed , above all they should know that they are men 's equals and be relaxed about it , even in the face of quite blatant unfairness — which they will meet . |
| 3 | Now , you , you 're , that 's a subjective feeling , you do n't actually know that there are neurones in your blood sugar level , but you , you certainly know when you need something to eat and it , it 's a kind of subjective feeling and it 's not farfetched in the least to claim that our genes have rigged our brain in that way to do that because obviously we 'd like to have more reproductive success if you know when you 're hungry than when you do n't and it may be that a lot of , in a lot of other ways genes affect our , our behaviour through similar erm effects , that is subjective feelings we have , often of an emotional nature to make us want to do certain things and an an and dislike doing others , and it may be that we , we 're really kind of lumbered with that . |
| 4 | Students will already know that there are jobs in work areas such as Electronics and Physiotherapy where the subject requirements are quite specific and those who decide to enrol for one of these courses will have effectively chosen their career at the same time . |
| 5 | We may never fully understand how these early ancestors survived with only rudimentary tools , but we do know that there are concentrations of artifacts and bones at certain places in the Olduvai strata . |
| 6 | In a pointed reference to criticism of his refusal to rule out voting with the Government in the future , he said : ‘ Jim of all people should know that there are occasions when Labour as well as the Tories can act against the Scottish interest and therefore must be opposed . ’ |
| 7 | But what 's important , as I 've said before ( page 16 ) , is that the learner should know that there are alternatives , and that words are spelled from options within the language . |
| 8 | Do you know that there 's men running clubs up there who would murder somebody like you or me would have a cup of tea ? |
| 9 | He would know that there were people living at Wyvis Hall . |
| 10 | We felt that Navan Resources should have made earlier contact with us to let us know that there was gold here , before we had to hear it in that way , ’ Mary Catherine Heanue said . |
| 11 | We went to breakfast and Mark Cox was sitting there and he asked us ‘ Did n't we know that there was coup in Russia ? ’ and he told us everything . |
| 12 | " And you might as well know that it was Paul who shot the fawn last night too , not me . " |
| 13 | ‘ How did you know that it was Matthew and not your son ? ’ |
| 14 | It occurred to her that she did n't even know that it was Veronica 's house ; why on earth had n't she checked Directory Enquiries to make sure she was still living there ? |
| 15 | But I did not know that he was Ipuky 's son . ’ |
| 16 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 17 | ‘ Craigbarnet I know is poor and the interest of his friends might be of service , ’ the duke remarked , ‘ but do you know that he was att Sheriff Moor , how would that sound here ? ’ |
| 18 | In this day and age it is very satisfying to know that there are firms who shine to give service . |
| 19 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 20 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 21 | Those who know anything about the way in which universities and polytechnics work know that they are businesses and not merely halls of residence . |
| 22 | Dogs , like men , can look very different but when it comes to sex they all know that they are members of one species and they are not culturally inhibited from taking appropriate action . |
| 23 | We know that they are sheep dogs and very active , I mean what do they do for exercise ? |
| 24 | And the problem of other minds ( ch. 5 ) can be presented as the problem of how , if at all , my observation of the behaviour of human bodies justifies my belief that those bodies are people ; little extra is gained by asking whether and how I know that they are people . |
| 25 | When you know that they are sort of negative and they do n't really talk to you as a person , you know that they 're not really bothered about what happens to you . |
| 26 | If we see there 's quite a few on the walkways , and if we know that they 're outsiders then we 'll we 'll turn round and we 'll walk back the other way . |
| 27 | Yesterday , John Major celebrated his first year as Prime Minister but we know that he was Chancellor in Mrs. Thatcher 's Government in the latter part of it — |
| 28 | … but they know that he was miles away at the time . |
| 29 | You know that I am Mrs Honoria Greville ? ’ |
| 30 | No one spoke so she felt driven to continue : ‘ I expect you know that I was Gifford 's second wife ; I married him when I was only twenty-two and he was sixty-one . |