Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voice spread like ink through blotting paper and seeped across his mind until it reached the nerve that knew it to be Bella 's . |
| 2 | Let us consider just two of them : ( 1 ) Is it true that the word ‘ here ’ is an exception to the rule that knowing the meaning of a word means knowing what is meant by it , that is , knowing something which we call by that word ? and ( 2 ) Supposing that the word ‘ here ’ can be used meaningfully without our knowing something which we call ‘ here ’ , are Russell and McTaggart right in their assumption that the word ‘ I ’ is not like ‘ here ’ in this respect ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | More appropot , though , is the fact that a user that knows only Windows would find it easy to use and become productive in . |
| 6 | Clary would smile , nod obligingly , with a look that knew something they did n't , one which delved deep down through two small black holes into a mind of knowledge , hidden inside , never daring to seep out . |
| 7 | Pious it may sound , but I do actually believe that there is a sense in which a group of students do collectively know much of what they need to know about learning : the problem of the PGCE year is to give them confidence that they know ; and the experience that knowing they can successfully act on their knowledge . |
| 8 | The make believe world of Disney is a truly magical experience that knows no age barriers . |
| 9 | The other half of him speaking , the half that knew it ought to run . |
| 10 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 11 | Liberman found in Penn what he considered the essence of an original photographer , ‘ a mind , and an eye that knew what it wanted to see ’ . |
| 12 | Liberman found in Penn what he considered the essence of an original photographer , ‘ a mind , and an eye that knows what it wanted to see ’ . |
| 13 | In the last year of a brief life at the heart of a kind of doting celebrity that knew the value of success , he fell into notoriety of the sort that is just as American as his life . |
| 14 | It is a bold colonization by a group that knows it is — and shows itself to be — in the ascendant . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | I was haunted by Normandin 's remark that knowing people were doing something had kept him alive . |
| 17 | An image of horns , of horse , of the smile that knows , of a mother 's kiss . |
| 18 | But how will Lachlan handle a wife that knows what he 's at , and has a great clan of powerful relations at her call if she 's ill done by , then ? ’ |
| 19 | We also reject the belief that knowing how to use terminology in which to speak of language is undesirable . |
| 20 | ‘ My God , it 's a wise father that knows his own child ! ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The tourist was well built , stronger possibly than either Creed or McGowan , but there was a pleading look in his eyes now , like a dog that knows it 's going to be kicked . |
| 23 | A prairie dog that knows what it 's up against may have a better chance of getting away safely . |
| 24 | PAMELA : For heaven 's sake , pity a poor creature that knows nothing of her duty but how to cherish her virtue and honesty . |
| 25 | Combined with a poetic passion that knew no limits , such qualities created an idiosyncrasy and style that usually survived a fallible and bewilderingly confused keyboard mechanism . |
| 26 | He did his work here well and thoroughly , but he hankered , every so often , for the rough grey seas and painted , cloud-dappled hills of Northumberland , and his children , and the soil that knew his step and warmed under the sole of his foot , like a caress . |
| 27 | A northern sense of identity concentrated by the frustration of spirit that knows it could manage better what its southern overseers only botch is pressure enough for a new drive for progress . |
| 28 | I learnt , a , a , a , a , a good stud groom , a man that knew his job , I learnt mine from . |
| 29 | And he wanted , he was a man that knew what he was doing . |
| 30 | The reason that knowing is different from guessing or dreaming is that knowledge implies an unspoken submission to what is real or thought to be real . |