Example sentences of "know [prep] [det] country " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thousands of children who are born every year , we do n't even know in this country how many there are , because the figures the ca n't be kept , er er and these tend to be children erm born of er , anonymous donors and and I think that as a society we are wreaking such problems for the future , we 're creating secrets for families , and I would really like to hear from my fellow women here about that . |
| 2 | I mean y er you know , although they 're in recession I , I think there 's you know in this country |
| 3 | Steps should be classified under the terms used in the classical vocabulary so that they have a commonly recognised form , e.g. the three changes of weight required by the Russian ‘ Kolokol ’ or bell step and the Hungarian ‘ Harang ’ make them pas de bourrée , whilst the ‘ goat 's leap ’ known in several countries becomes the pas de chat . |
| 4 | Willa Cather is not well known in this country , though her major work is now in print in Virago paperbacks . |
| 5 | BEAUMARCHAIS 's comedies are less well known in this country ( though still popular with the Comedie Francais ) than the operas derived from them , Rossini 's The Barber Of Seville and Mozart 's The Marriage of Figaro . |
| 6 | The white pine , Pinus strobus , also from America and known in this country as the Weymouth Pine , impressed Miller both for its beauty and utility . |
| 7 | His work with children was an adaptation of Laban 's principles of movement which became known in this country during the war . |
| 8 | Now , it is well known in this country that sex and race discrimination are unlawful ( in Northern Ireland religious discrimination ) but that anything else is fair game . |
| 9 | Mr. Gould likewise described 11 species of the birds brought by Mr Darwin from the Gallapagos [ sic ] Islands , all of which were new forms , none being previously known in this country . ’ |
| 10 | A man like Richard Hamilton , for instance , who 's now pretty well known in this country , was much better known on the Continent of Europe and in America , in Switzerland , in Germany , in Northern Italy — Milan particularly — much better known there than he was for decades . |
| 11 | In our part of Italy , as in every other , there was an information system always in operation : radio popolo , the people 's radio ( what is known in some countries as the grapevine ) . |
| 12 | What the statute itself enacts can not be unlawful , because what the statute says and provides is itself the law , and the highest form of law that is known to this country . |