Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] know " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For as long as a Stephen , in his moments of strength , has been able to despise the arbiters of fortune and culture — the English and the Anglo Irish — as degenerate and unworthy inheritors of the language of Shakespeare , he has done so from somewhere , from a somewhere intimately known , and yet never entirely placed , from what might loosely be called Irishness . |
| 2 | Behind her I could see into what is rather optimistically known as the vestry — which is nothing more than a curtained-off area of the floor , rather like what you might see in a hospital casualty ward . |
| 3 | Shakespeare is the most widely known and read of the classical playwrights and it is for this reason that a piece from one of his plays is nearly always obligatory at a drama school audition . |
| 4 | They are most widely known as company secretaries ( which is the function of roughly 20 per cent of the UK 's chartered secretaries ) . |
| 5 | Frankfurters are the most widely known of all the scalded sausages , and many other varieties such as Bockwurst , Knackwurst and Weinerwurst are really the same thing but in different sizes . |
| 6 | Of the remaining varieties , red kidney beans are the most widely known , being a vital ingredient in chilli con carne , which strikes me as being second only to ham , egg and chips on the standard pub menu ! |
| 7 | The movement for excellence is most widely known through the work of Peters and Waterman ( 1982 ) . |
| 8 | The series with Racing Club de Pan-s whetted the appetite for overseas adventures , and Arsenal soon became the most widely known and respected club in the world , a model for emerging soccer nations . |
| 9 | When I refer to the ‘ Popular Purgatory ’ I am referring to the Purgatory which is most widely known — the place referred to in Roman Catholic teaching and which is said to be arrived at after death . |
| 10 | The Korn/Ferry name is most widely known and publicly quoted of all search firms — Lester Korn is seen as the man who brought headhunting out into the open — and thus the firm can guarantee almost instant interest from potential candidates . |
| 11 | He was joint editor of the English Historical Review , 1939–58 ; professor of history in the University of Edinburgh from 1945 till his resignation on health grounds in 1954 ; and in 1951–2 Ford 's lecturer in Oxford , delivering the lectures which became probably the most widely known of his books , King George III and the Politicians ( 1953 ) . |
| 12 | Probably the most widely known alternative matrix is that developed by McKinsey and Co. , apparently in liaison with General Electric Inc . |
| 13 | Currently the most widely known ( and also most widely criticized ) theory on the subject is that of Noam Chomsky who has pointed out that , although children have to learn the meanings of individual words from their elders ( which would make language a phenomenon of culture ) , they seem to know how to string words together so as to distinguish sense from nonsense long before they have acquired any substantial vocabulary . |
| 14 | However , though honoured , especially in his native France , his discoveries were not immediately applicable and his contemporary influence therefore less than that of his fellow-countryman Louis Pasteur , who became , with Darwin , perhaps the mid-nineteenth-century scientist most widely known to the general public . |
| 15 | Chomsky , who is probably the most widely known living linguist , is listed , but readers are immediately referred to " Formal grammar " , which indicates a proper emphasis on ideas rather than personalities . |
| 16 | The interactionist perspective ( as it is most familiarly known ) proved in the end to be unable to incorporate all the radical demands that came to be made of it . |
| 17 | Because this information is not widely enough known , many individuals or families are not claiming help to which they are entitled and for which in many cases they have actually paid through their national insurance contributions . |
| 18 | the quality concepts are understood , the benefits are widely enough known to convince even the sceptics about the importance of using the framework . |
| 19 | It was , though , his rather better known colleague at Caltech , Linus Pauling , who proposed that the principle to adopt was that of structures that maximise the number of so-called hydrogen bonds between different amino acids in the polypeptide chain ( and who thereby forged the key which very rapidly unlocked molecular biology ) . |
| 20 | " Parallel " was rather better known than " perpendicular " or " at right angles to " ( see Example SS ) . |
| 21 | Although Sukarno fought to retain his authority he was steadily out-manoevred by General Suharto , hitherto little known , so that The Times ( 2 March 1966 ) had to announce : ‘ Remarkably little is spoken of him . |
| 22 | She had rescued the capercailzie , a black-backed gull and a pair of redstarts ; Mr Hellyer only a case of passerine birds which broke when he dumped it down too roughly on the path , spilling out the small , dry inhabitants into the larger air they had once so intimately known . |
| 23 | ( What is less widely known is that Draize testing need involve only minimal discomfort ; the animals are under local anaesthetics and are humanely killed upon completion . ) |
| 24 | Difficult to pin down on account of his constantly changing styles , and less widely known , though not less important , than his contemporaries , Jannis Kounellis and Mario Merz , Fabro was due for reassessment , and this exhibition , selected by the museum 's curator of painting and sculpture , John Caldwell , surveys a career of thirty years . |
| 25 | Willoughby has one other , less widely known , treasure of novel interest — a moated rectory . |
| 26 | The pill 's more certain beneficial effects on benign breast disease and on cancer of the ovaries and of the uterus are less widely known . |
| 27 | What is less widely known is that at this moment two P-38 Lightnings , ( distinctive , long-range US fighters ) appeared , their star insignia clearly visible , and although it may have been coincidence even to the sophisticated in a crowd of some hundreds of thousands it must indeed have appeared that the mandate of heaven had assumed its newest form . |
| 28 | It is less widely known that there was a comparable ( although much smaller ) dyeing industry in Ireland based on Nucella lapillus which seems to have been known of as far away as Minehead in Somerset ( Cole , 1685 ) . |
| 29 | What is less widely known is the level of commitment required from every one else who accepts the chairmanship of a major committee of the Council . |
| 30 | Unlike training , which has a NACAB staff presence in all area offices , the IPG serves from a distance and so its internal processes are not so widely known . |