Example sentences of "[conj] know [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also had severe perceptual problems and found it hard to recognize the different parts of her body or to know where objects were in relation to herself . |
| 2 | One of the great difficulties a teacher has is to recognise a good drawing or painting from a bad one — or to know when a child has achieved through his effort a simple personal expression . |
| 3 | I was wondering if you have , or know where I can get , an instruction book . |
| 4 | Not too many outsiders will be able to name the caretaker 's dog or know when the school was built . |
| 5 | I can do that , probably a number of other people can do it too , but the vast majority would n't have the remotest idea what to listen for or know how it is done . |
| 6 | It blames current top management and the board itself for not understanding how bad the problems are or knowing how to solve them . |
| 7 | Honestly , I do n't think it matters knowing how to program , or knowing how to make the machines actually work . |
| 8 | He doubted if room 19 even existed ; nobody in his circle had ever seen it or knew where it was situated . |
| 9 | The problem with relying on COSE is that no-one 's really sure if it wants or is ready — or knows how — to solve the problem yet . |
| 10 | Its interest , as will already be clear , is that it offers a prospect of closing the gap between fact and value , bypassing the issue of whether or how one can draw prescriptive conclusions from descriptive premisses alone : it affirms the apparently naive claim that to know how to act I have only to be sufficiently aware of myself and my surroundings . |
| 11 | Better to knowing now than to know when you arrive there . |
| 12 | ‘ You have to hire people that know how to work the equipment , who know how to repair things . |
| 13 | Those canny souls that know how often these things fall at the last hurdle can stop holding their breath and relax over Tadpole Technology Plc 's deal to do a Power RISC-based notebook for IBM Corp : IBM has paid £325,000 for 500,000 new Tadpole shares at what is now the bargain issue price of 65p , which at last week 's price of 224 pence gives it an instant paper profit of £795,000 ; it also gets warrants for 2.22m more shares at the same price to take it to 12.9% . |
| 14 | Insects hiding on the trunks and branches of trees represent an equally rich harvest for those animals that know how to gather them . |
| 15 | I said , ‘ I think you should know how to cook a few things , in case they ask you to feed the children , ’ but she seemed to think that knowing how to make a Marmite sandwich would be enough . |
| 16 | We also reject the belief that knowing how to use terminology in which to speak of language is undesirable . |
| 17 | It was shown on page 195 that knowing how frequently a record is accessed can lead to reduced seek times . |
| 18 | Alasdair MacCormick , who runs Law Practice Management , a consultancy which advises on the selection of computer systems , feels that knowing how computers work is not important . |
| 19 | Letters do not correspond exactly to sounds , with the consequence that knowing how to pronounce a word does n't necessarily mean you know how to spell it ( and vice versa ) . |
| 20 | We should also recognize that there is more to producing and understanding meaningful language — to communicating — than knowing how to make or recognize correct sentences . |
| 21 | You had certain of them that knew where you could slip in — you could slip in for a smoke and a cup of tea , so long as you were n't caught . |
| 22 | So , vote Labour , the party that knows how to keep its trousers on . |
| 23 | A faith worn on the sleeve , to be seen and not hidden ; a faith that touches every detail of life ; a faith that knows how and what to celebrate ; a faith that knows how and what to celebrate ; a faith that earthquakes , terrorists , cholera , drought , power cuts , water shortages , poverty and bad housing will never shake . |
| 24 | A faith worn on the sleeve , to be seen and not hidden ; a faith that touches every detail of life ; a faith that knows how and what to celebrate ; a faith that knows how and what to celebrate ; a faith that earthquakes , terrorists , cholera , drought , power cuts , water shortages , poverty and bad housing will never shake . |
| 25 | Jack Stone seems to be the sort of fish that knows how to cut a net or two . ’ |
| 26 | And the one that knows how to make time fly . |
| 27 | Nails , getting the taste of it , stopped being terrified and began to keep his eyes open long enough to judge the thoroughbred 's stride as he approached a jump and to know when he was going to stand off and when he was going to put a quick one in . |
| 28 | They need to be tough minded as well as lovingly tender and to know when to ‘ change gear ’ from one to the other . |
| 29 | The art of surviving is to understand how the system works not to be frightened by it , and to know when to seek more expert help . |
| 30 | Thus it is sufficient to know the general location of the participants in order to interpret : ( 25 ) This city is really beautiful and to know the set of potential addressees in the situation in order to interpret : ( 26 ) You can all come with me if you like and to know when the interaction is taking place in order to know which calendar year is being referred to in ( 27 ) We ca n't afford a holiday this year We could formulate the distinction thus : gestural usages require a moment by moment physical monitoring of the speech event for their interpretation , while symbolic usages make reference only to contextual coordinates available to participants antecedent to the utterance . |