Example sentences of "to know in " in BNC.

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31 That is the normal pattern of development , and before long she will be able to know in advance — and then let you know .
32 But it is the starting point of this doctrine , and only if we are prepared , to start where the Bible starts are we likely to know in experience anything of the higher reaches of the Spirit 's work .
33 He has , therefore , to know in his own mind how much power he can harness into a technique and what he is capable of .
34 It would help to know in what way precisely he maligned people , but the child remained as mum as a mute , one hand gripped tightly into a fist , the other holding the mug of cocoa .
35 While if a user is really looking for a system to support management decisions , how can he be expected to know in advance all the decisions which he will have to take ?
36 It is impossible for the voter to know in advance whether it is his ballot paper which is going to contribute to the result of the election in this way but if voters do not express enough preferences then there is a risk that at some stage in the count their vote will become non-transferable and therefore exercise no further influence upon the result .
37 It is a perfectly valid question , and we can at least write down what we would need to know in order to calculate the answer .
38 ‘ Wet and cold 's quite enough to know in a lifetime full of fish ! ’
39 ‘ You wanted to know in general where it 's destined for ? ’ the American asks .
40 It never hurt to know in advance what well-provisioned castles could be put at the King 's disposal at short notice .
41 As this was the first time this had happened , how could we be expected to know in advance ?
42 In order to classify the pixels it is necessary to know in advance the number and spectral characteristics of the land-cover classes that are present in the area covered by the image .
43 One key feature of her method was to differentiate between ( 1 ) what we know ; ( 2 ) what we can guess or infer ; ( 3 ) what we do not know ; ( 4 ) what we would like to know in order to carry the enquiry further .
44 But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion .
45 You 'd have to know in advance .
46 But , my Lord Mayor , Labour were not to know in the early eighties how popular the Tenants Right to Buy would be .
47 well I do think I have , I have those points , erm , I do n't want to stop you Mr er , and I do repeat I 'm going to , I 'm going to rule on these matters and both parties have er , erm , will have certainly have full liberty to come back and , and deal with them , I just wanted to know in outline the present parties er to the future of these proceedings
48 This chapter is designed to answer a simple question — what do school librarians and teachers , with little or no experience of microcomputers , need to know in order to overcome the initial uncertainties which people have when faced with new technology ?
49 Cara wanted to know in a hurry , though added more slowly , ‘ No , you ca n't have done , or they 'd have insisted on you going home straight away . ’
50 For , all in the instant of his book and glass being set down on a nearby table ‘ You 're afraid of me , Fabia ? ’ he demanded to know in a straightforward , no nonsense manner .
51 Erm , the storage binder , we , we , er , anticipate that you of course , will wind up with shelves full of storage binders housing various diaries , and you 'll want to know in ten years ' time , which storage binder has your nineteen ninety-four diary , erm , that 's what that label is for .
52 the only one I want to know in this area is a , you can
53 You 've go to know in your mind what you 're going to talk about .
54 What we 've got is a tremendous gap in what people need to know in society , in all areas of society , to handle this computer revolution .
55 If you say , ‘ Well , of course , yes , I can easily explain that , but basically we 'll transfer the the , the handling of the enquiry to A Department , which of course has responsibility to B , but B ca n't do that without C , ’ you have to know in your own organization that that 's the way the procedure works , but it will mean nothing to the listener .
56 It 's difficult to know in what way you would actually set about doing this .
57 It 's quite nice to know in an emergency , if there 's a phone ringing , say in your boss ' boss ' office , or , you know , in a colleague 's colleague 's office , or something like that , that you want to answer , you do n't want to let ring and ring and ring , and you know the extension number quite well , then use it .
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