Example sentences of "[conj] know only " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , when games theorists talk about the Iterated or Repeated Prisoner 's Dilemma game , they always assume that the end of the game is unpredictable , or known only to the banker . |
| 2 | More appropot , though , is the fact that a user that knows only Windows would find it easy to use and become productive in . |
| 3 | What could be more appropriate at Christmas than to remember children who have been deserted by their mothers and know only a hospital as home . |
| 4 | Quality is undefinable and known only to God ’ ( Warren 1979:155 ) . |
| 5 | Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc have been discussing the possibility of a merger between the two companies according to the San Jose Mercury News Apple declined to comment on the report , and Novell denied it , saying that ‘ We 're always in industry discussions with them , but we 're not having discussions with them about merging , ’ but the paper says that the talks between Apple chairman John Sculley and Novell chairman Ray Noorda were a closely-guarded secret and known only by an elite group of senior executives at the two firms . |
| 6 | The problem is too technical , complex and known only to a few . |
| 7 | I undertand that the British Transport Police yesterday found the receipt and now confirm that the ink is black — the receipt had a reference number written on it , 092 , the one issued to Mr. Brand for this journey and known only by InterCity staff . |
| 8 | They have uni-dimensional minds , thinking only in monetary figures and knowing only how to subtract costs from revenue . |
| 9 | At Montmartre , I was disappointed by the Sacré Cœur , and I dared , privately , to categorise it as vulgar ; but , of course , I was quite unused to Second Empire Romanesque , and knew only the filigree stonework of English Gothic , and now the glorious tracery and the flying buttresses of Nôtre Dame . |
| 10 | A new generation of nobles who were not to taste the sweetness of military success and knew only at second hand of the prestige and profits gained in the 1340s and 1350s led the opposition to the court in the last years of Edward III 's reign and during the reign of Richard II . |
| 11 | Because he was so isolated physically , and knew only a handful of fellow artists — his friends did include John Minton [ q.v. ] , |
| 12 | Yet language is too important to be left either to amateurs who know British education but know only a little about language , or to professionals who know much about language but have little close contact with British education . |