Example sentences of "[adv] know in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have liked to have known what Louis planned , if only to know in whose cause Colonel Smith had sacrificed his life and how much information Smith had kept hidden . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Wet and cold 's quite enough to know in a lifetime full of fish ! ’ |
| 4 | Wills is a name long known in the West Country . |
| 5 | ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was sufficiently known in France to excite great curiosity and Sybille was tempted to offer her services as a general assistant . |
| 6 | Andrew Morton became a millionaire , thanks to the runaway success of ‘ that book ’ as his Diana : Her True Story is apparently known in royal circles . |
| 7 | They should n't have found a single gun that day — we 'd have buried the lot if we 'd only known in time . ’ |
| 8 | But one chromosome may be missing ( this is only known in humans in the form XO ( = Y chromosome missing ) which produces a specific syndrome of sexual and other effects known as the Turner syndrome ) . |
| 9 | Shortly after eleven , on that same morning , George Cowley arrived at the neatly maintained country house that belonged to Len Hatch , Chrissie 's father , and a man more familiarly known in Cowley 's circuit as The Hatchet . |
| 10 | The sum has been the same since 1983 , when the Government launched its Enterprise Allowance Scheme — better known in some circles as the Enterprise Allowance Scam or Enquiring Artists ' Support . |
| 11 | After all SHE was the newcomer , and HE had starred alongside Michael J Fox in Bright Lights , Big City , and was better known in the movie-world . |
| 12 | Mr Shrager is better known in the City . |
| 13 | We owe a lot to Tom who still has a fondness for his kites , although he is better known in the 1990s as the creator of the GeoSphere Project , a spectacular image of the Earth produced from over 2000 satellite images . |
| 14 | Pagk , whose work is better known in France than in America , is having his second show at Thread Waxing Space from 5 to 27 March . |
| 15 | He is probably right , too , in thinking that she would be far better known in art historical terms had she stayed in France , where her daring move into abstraction was more appreciated , than returning dutifully to the provincial inertia of Dublin . |
| 16 | For example , Academician Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar is better known in certain circles as Igor ‘ Obmanilovich ’ Grabar . |
| 17 | More recently , artists such as Boldini , De Nittis , Segantini , Zandomeneghi and the Macchiaioli have become better known in the States , but Palagi , Favretto , Hayez and Toma are virtually unrecognised , as are many others . |
| 18 | As a legal category , ‘ international judicial assistance ’ is perhaps better known in countries of the civil law tradition than those of the common law . |
| 19 | Then , head bent , she was hurrying back to the villa , suddenly knowing in her heart what had to be done . |
| 20 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 21 | But , my Lord Mayor , Labour were not to know in the early eighties how popular the Tenants Right to Buy would be . |
| 22 | Extending these ideas , there have also been suggestions from socio-cultural anthropologists who have a leaning towards sociobiology , that , although the details of customs and moral rules and relational behaviours have to be learned afresh by each individual they are matters of culture — we may already know in advance how to organize such conventions into structured patterns by virtue of a genetically endowed predisposition to become enculturated . |
| 23 | Obviously you can not know in advance which type of mat will be used at a particular tournament , so you should do your final training on any type of mat , just to get used to the feel , and then try to use any free time you may have on the actual competition areas to get a little practice in beforehand . |
| 24 | He pointed out that schools which took up the offer would not know in advance how much the discount would save them . |
| 25 | We do not know in detail whence the monks were recruited ; but on the whole they seem mainly to have come from the upper classes , and perhaps from the families of substantial town-dwellers . |
| 26 | As Johnson-Laird has pointed out we customarily understand and use words in context whose meanings we do not know in any exact sense : |
| 27 | We often simply do not know in what ways people in the past were drawing on ideas about obligations , rights or duties when they provided assistance for their kin ( Medick and Sabean , 1984 , pp. 20–1 ) . |
| 28 | But they are intended to illustrate the very general point that we can not know in advance the belief systems of the communities we are studying ; an important part of good fieldwork practice is to get to know them and take them into account at all stages of the research , up to and beyond the time of publication . |
| 29 | ‘ He told me , ’ said Hugh , ‘ as I think he told you , that he did not know in the darkness who the dead man might be . |
| 30 | The judge in making an award of damages will know that a payment into court has been made , but will not know in what sum and so can not ensure that the damages awarded are high enough to beat the payment into court , if minded to make an award similar to that which the defendant has offered . |