Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] you " in BNC.
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| 31 | Let the other person know that you know they 're not God . |
| 32 | Let them know that you have n't prepared , and you insult them even further . |
| 33 | Your best bet is to let the insurance company know that you have a fish tank before you take out a policy . |
| 34 | ‘ Scuse me , missus , ’ said the bus conductor , ‘ but did you know that you have a banana in your ear ? ’ |
| 35 | ‘ If you will wait in here I will let Lady Ursula know that you have arrived . ’ |
| 36 | But there is something you do n't know that you should know . |
| 37 | I did n't know that you spoke African languages but you do now . |
| 38 | I do n't I do n't know that you need to do all this I mean , we would like ac I mean as far as I 'm concerned we would like access to this information but I I do n't particularly need some pieces of |
| 39 | The second , for instance , amounts to an assertion that one can not answer the question ‘ How do you know that you are in pain ? ’ by simply saying ‘ Because I am in pain' . |
| 40 | You do not know that you are not a brain , suspended in a vat full of liquid in a laboratory , and wired to a computer which is feeding you your current experiences under the control of some ingenious technician/scientist ( benevolent or malevolent according to taste ) . |
| 41 | Is it possible , however , that though you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat you still know many other things , perhaps more important ? |
| 42 | We can surely conclude that if you know that you are sitting reading , you know that you are not a brain in a vat , and hence ( by simple modus tollens ) that since you do n't know that you are not a brain in a vat ( agreed above ) you do n't know that you are sitting reading . |
| 43 | We can surely conclude that if you know that you are sitting reading , you know that you are not a brain in a vat , and hence ( by simple modus tollens ) that since you do n't know that you are not a brain in a vat ( agreed above ) you do n't know that you are sitting reading . |
| 44 | It seems therefore to show , more generally , that since you do n't know that you are not a brain in a vat you can not know any proposition p of which you know that if p were true , you would not be a brain in a vat . |
| 45 | And there are similar slightly different arguments , for instance Descartes ' version which takes q = you are dreaming and argues that since you do n't know that you are not dreaming you do n't know any proposition p of which you know that if p were true you would not be dreaming ( see the first Meditation in Descartes , 1955 ) . |
| 46 | It seems to show that the imaginary case in which you are a brain in a vat being fed the experiences of reading a book is perfectly effective in showing that you do not know that you are reading a book . |
| 47 | The conditional theory of knowledge can show that you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 48 | Therefore , if the conditional theory of knowledge is on the right lines , you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 49 | Despite this , Nozick 's account can be used to show that you do know that you are currently sitting reading a philosophy book ( please sit down first ) . |
| 50 | First , it can reinforce our intuitions that you know that you are sitting reading etc. , that you know that if you are sitting reading etc. you are not a brain in a vat , and that you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 51 | However , you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat because it is not the case that ( 3 ) in the nearest worlds in which you are a brain in a vat you believe that you are a brain in a vat . |
| 52 | Hence you can know that you are sitting reading even though you do not know that you are not asleep in bed , dreaming that you are sitting reading . |
| 53 | Hence you can know that you are sitting reading even though you do not know that you are not asleep in bed , dreaming that you are sitting reading . |
| 54 | The preacher 's enquiry , ‘ Do you KNOW … do you KNOW , that you have ready for you houses , houses I say ; I say do you KNOW ; do you KNOW that you have houses in the heavens not made with hands ? ’ falls on ears preoccupied with earthly buildings and builders . |
| 55 | ‘ Does he know that you and Claudia were ’ — I stumble — ‘ in love ? ’ |
| 56 | In other words , although you can not absolutely know or control the meanings that your novel communicates to its readers , you can not not know that you are involved in an activity of communication , otherwise you will have no criteria of relevance , logic , cohesion , success and failure , in the composition of your fictional discourse . |
| 57 | How do you know that you do n't you twenty one who said no ? |
| 58 | If you make a codicil leaving somebody out , they 'll still see the original will somebody will know that you 've changed your mind . |
| 59 | ‘ You know who it is , but … you do n't know that you know . ’ |
| 60 | So if I were you I would just have a word with your insurance company and make sure that everything 's okay but you 're obviously , they must know that you 've got to leave your er fridge-freezer switched on , so you 've got to have your mains electrics on . |