Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] know enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I now feel , after a year and a half on BP 's board , that I know enough about the company and the way it works to be able to make judgements about its style of management . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I do n't think I — I do n't think that I know enough about some of the issues , to go along with it completely . ’ |
| 3 | Someone with more experience of the rough and tumble of friendships , jealousies and animosities might have been able to dismiss Deana 's words as the unmotivated expressions of bitterness and jealousy that they were , but Belinda was inexperienced , and although she knew enough about Deana to be wary and distrustful she did not know enough to ignore her as fully as she should . |
| 4 | While the DUC itself had amassed information and expertise by now to undertake this study itself , it realized that the report would have to be produced from outside the community if it was to have legitimacy or to be seen in any way as neutral : ‘ We in the Committee felt that we knew enough to write the report ourselves but we also felt that it would n't be acceptable to the County Council so we had to get somebody else to do it ’ . |
| 5 | Well , she was a doctor , and she knew enough about human physiology to know that healthy men and women sometimes reacted to each other in the most devastating ways . |
| 6 | If you know enough about a task , you can always translate it into an exercise in theorem proving . |
| 7 | If you had looked carefully , or if you knew enough , you would appreciate that these are , in fact , specially designed pilot 's boots which , with the aid of a couple of zips , convert into what was doubtless , in the forties , a pretty neat-looking pair of shoes . |
| 8 | If we knew enough and could identify all the individual animals alive , say , one hundred million years ago which were ancestral to existing mice , we would expect to find those animals all belonging to a single species ( although , if we went back far enough , we might not call that species a house mouse ) . |
| 9 | Thus Hume does not sharply distinguish between interpreting moral judgements as expressing one 's own feelings , stating one 's own feelings , and suggesting how men in general would feel about a situation if they knew enough . |
| 10 | I wondered if he would teach the right things and even if he knew enough himself ! |
| 11 | I was only a couple of years older myself , but I knew enough never to believe a word he said . |
| 12 | I wished that I could talk well , and could continue this conversation until animosity was dissipated and we could all stand on some common ground , but I knew enough to admit that this would n't happen , and that the longer the talk went on the further apart we should all grow . |
| 13 | ‘ But I know enough about business to realise that when a rival opens up just down the road it 's likely to have an adverse effect on my profits . ’ |
| 14 | But I know enough about myself to know that as long as I get eight hours sleep I 'm alright ’ . |
| 15 | It was her favourite dream , but she knew enough to keep it to herself . |
| 16 | Of the incidence of poverty and famine we know comparatively little , but we know enough to be sure that both were common . |
| 17 | Not , I admit , the kind of explosives you have down there but we know enough not to trigger a bomb by accident . ’ |
| 18 | He had never had heroin before , but he knew enough junkies to recognise the effects . |
| 19 | Colt did n't hold with the personality bit , but he knew enough to keep his opinion to himself . |
| 20 | This period was not one he was particularly expert in , but he knew enough to be impressed by the handiwork . |
| 21 | But he knew enough about the game to recognize the scope and justice of Connon 's analysis . |
| 22 | But he knew enough , because he knew about Rose and Joe Landau . |