Example sentences of "knew of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the inevitably deformed critics who admired his work — and the critics who sat with their faces pointing up at us did seem to have the countenances of gargoyles , while the aisles were crammed with their wheelchairs — knew of certain weaknesses — certain indulgences , let us say — they would see Pyke 's work in a different light . |
| 2 | Charsky , who had no idea how many nights he had spent on the face , tried to keep himself awake by recalling all he knew of Russian history , from the founding of Kiev Rus to the death of Stalin and the suppression of Hungary . |
| 3 | Thornton knew of various incidents which confirmed his opinion that Walsh made a distinctly negative impression in the hunt for backers . |
| 4 | I knew of young people who would rush into marriages , even parenthood , in order to further their passport and visa applications , such was their desperation to get out . |
| 5 | A United States Senate subcommittee investigating the BCCI scandal , chaired by John F. Kerry , heard testimony on Aug. 1 that several US government agencies knew of illegal activities as early as 1986 . |
| 6 | He knew of petty quarrels between men of different tribes which , inadequately composed , had grown ; in one case thirteen men had been killed . |
| 7 | Mr Gray said he knew of one man who had been threatened with court action for not paying his water rates when he did not receive a reminder . |
| 8 | Avril knew of one person she could turn to for support — Peter Spencer . |
| 9 | I knew of one farm where they served the suet and gravy first so as to take the edge off their hunger and save the meat . |
| 10 | Giraldo knew of other stories from further north |
| 11 | But Teesdale district councillor Kath Toward said she knew of other ambulance delays . |
| 12 | Masha Cohen also knew of such things , not in the same way , but from her own very different experiences as a young girl whose family had been harassed and hounded in the anti-semitic agitations that rent Poland . |
| 13 | FAMILY knew of whole streets where women went out to work and men stayed at home and neglected the children . |
| 14 | Perhaps Granville Penn knew of this hospital by tradition . |
| 15 | The judge found that the defendants , by their servants , well knew of this condition . |
| 16 | Only his secretary knew of this place . |
| 17 | Lewis Carroll possibly knew of this phrase but , because he refers to the grin outlasting the rest of the body , it is more likely that his real influence was the cheese rather than the swordsman . |
| 18 | I knew of another man who dealt in them . |
| 19 | According to Beamish , the IFL knew of three remedies to the Jewish question : to kill them , sterilize them or segregate them . |
| 20 | Now this is an appalling situation , er th the B C C I 's books were certified by the auditors as a true and fair record from December nineteenth er December thirty first nineteen er eighty seven forward a and that meant that people had confidence in B C C I , here we 're told that the auditors are giving it er a certificate of a a true and fair record er encouraging therefore people to in t to invest and yet prior to nineteen eighty nine Price Waterhouse knew of gross irregularities er in B C C I 's handling of loads , particularly the load to C C A H which was the holding company for First American er bank shares . |
| 21 | ‘ Did n't you say you knew of some Lao restaurants near here ? |
| 22 | Charles Lambe claimed that he knew of some Dissenters who " will not touch either Food or Raiment , that was not bought in the Shop of a Fanatick . |
| 23 | Lt Cot Hocevar stated that he knew of these plans , but that he considered that Carinthia was not part of Austria . |
| 24 | The number of peoples in the world who knew of these advantages and nevertheless persisted in rejecting them were few : to do so required a tenacity of purpose , an indifference to wealth and comfort which were not given to many . |
| 25 | No one else knew of these records , they were just another among the many secrets the two shared . |
| 26 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 27 | According to Plutarch , writing in highly refined Greek circles in the early second century AD : ‘ Before this , Rome neither had nor even knew of these exqusite and refined things , nor was there in the city any love of what was charming and elegant ; rather , it was full of barbaric weapons and bloody spoils . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Are you saying that when I showed you Milada Pankracova 's letter to Cara , that was the first you knew of any interview ? ’ she asked , still feeling a shade staggered and needing a little more clarification . |
| 29 | Major ‘ knew of Iraqi weapons deal in 1989 ’ |
| 30 | He had once heard an Englishman say that what he knew of nuclear physics could be written on the back of a blackcurrant . |