Example sentences of "[adv] know " in BNC.
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| 31 | think feminism has to provide a unified , positive alternative for all women , in order for them to be able not only to know about but to reject and try to escape subordination ( 1979 : 129 ) . |
| 32 | And the smartly dressed sales staff who swarm like pilot fish around shoppers are expected not only to know the names of regulars but also their sizes and colour preferences . |
| 33 | We need to investigate whether such moral perceptions are accurate , if only to know what should be done about them . |
| 34 | No , never tell me more of your goings and comings than is my due , I need only to know , as nearly as you may judge , how long I must bide here to wait for the answer . ’ |
| 35 | ' ’ I trust to have word from you by this messenger , and delay only to know that you wish me to proceed . |
| 36 | That is , if the same grammatical tag is found more than once in a position it is necessary only to know that the tag occurs in that position and the best scores associated with that tag . |
| 37 | Only to know each day that tomorrow one would still have a roof over one 's head , a bed to lie in and food to put on the table . |
| 38 | Her letter asked : ‘ Do you personally know the origin of your surname and what is it like being called ‘ Dudley Fishburn ’ ? ’ . |
| 39 | But if one is dealing with anything other than empirical knowledge of this kind — if , in short , one does not personally know in the sense just explained — the only honest thing one can say is that one does not know . |
| 40 | It will be comforting to me at any rate personally to know that even so eminent a , a , er an ornament of the present administration as my Noble Friends also found these th th this material a matter for stumbling and was not perhaps inclined to give it a crown of lucidity . |
| 41 | On the edge of the crowd the inevitable party of Japanese tourists busily video the scene , turning history into home movies , acting out Andy Warhol 's belief that the 20th century could only know a thing was true if it was on TV . |
| 42 | ‘ The situation could arise whereby we all own different bits of the same story but we will only know that when we go to one of the television networks with a proposal . ’ |
| 43 | Visitors will not only know where they are going but will be able to recognise and name the person they are seeking . |
| 44 | We will only know the answer to this and many other questions when televising has continued for a much longer time . |
| 45 | We can only know the truth about ourselves from an outside source . |
| 46 | We can only know an object by the sensations which it causes and are detected by our five senses . |
| 47 | What takes place when someone learns something can not be observed directly ; we can only know that learning has taken place by examining changes m the person 's behaviour after the event . |
| 48 | The overriding problem is that unlike most criminal acts where one knows clearly that one has committed a crime , one can often only know one has published obscene or indecent material at the very end of a prosecution . |
| 49 | Sweeting also confirmed that the Miss Johnson story originated from his aunt who , as he wittily put it , ‘ could only know what was told her ! ’ |
| 50 | You need only know the first , who is Alex Raneleigh , based in Brussels . |
| 51 | ‘ Stiff knee , ’ he said , watching for obstacles he might only know about by walking into them . |
| 52 | We can only know these feelings from Hornblower 's own unspoken soliloquies . |
| 53 | Ultimately , we can only know our institutions of higher education by coming to understand the quality of their internal life . |
| 54 | If I could only know — for certain — that you would be coming back to me as soon as this is over , I could bear it . |
| 55 | After doing an audit to see which modules of your existing machine you can keep you will not only know if a motherboard upgrade is worthwhile , you will also know exactly what your shopping list is ! |
| 56 | Somehow if I could only know what he was doing and who he was seeing , that gave me some kind of control over the situation . |
| 57 | The customer must not only know the protections he is giving up ( see ( 2 ) below ) but must also be aware of the effect of giving them up ; ( 2 ) The firm has given him a clear written warning of the private customer protections he will lose ; all the main protections must be listed ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) and not just those specified by SFA itself in its guidance . |
| 58 | In order to draft effectively , and to make intelligent use of precedents , the drafter must not only know what to say but why it is necessary to say it , how to say it , and what will be the result of saying it differently . |
| 59 | Thus the salesperson must not only know his products ' benefits but the types of situation in which each would be appropriate . |
| 60 | There are other outlets , if you want to learn the media game , in terms of speech and view , as it were , hospital radio , I do n't know whether you have any hospitals in your region but increasingly hospital radio offers an opportunity and a challenge , and welcomes people who would like to try their hand at becoming sort of D.J.s , or features editors , or are prepared to talk interestingly about subjects , and this you would only know from a local point of view . |