Example sentences of "[subord] knowing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julian , although knowing through putting them on his arms that they were of different lengths , said they were ‘ the same ’ . |
| 2 | Erica , although knowing none of this , had grown more scathing , with her outsider 's eye . |
| 3 | Afterwards , Mr Taylor said : ‘ Nothing would have pleased Freddie more than knowing his performing and song-writing talent would raise so much money to help Aids sufferers everywhere . |
| 4 | But there is in us another level of being which lies deeper than knowing or acting , and it is at that further depth that the genuine religious impulse arises and lives . |
| 5 | There is nothing more interesting to a busy chief executive or personnel director than knowing what the competition are doing , what they are being paid and who is moving where . |
| 6 | All of which is a roundabout way of saying that what matters in this world is asking the right questions , rather than knowing the right answers . |
| 7 | Much more tricky than knowing if you 've found a badger sett , is knowing whether or not it is still active . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And there is transparently more to this than knowing the meanings of individual units of expression ; we have to grasp the syntax . |
| 10 | Let us turn to another definition that would give the context-dependent nature of such phenomena more centrality : ( 12 ) Pragmatics is the study of the relations between language and context that are basic to an account of language understanding Here the term language understanding is used in the way favoured by workers in artificial intelligence to draw attention to the fact that understanding an utterance involves a great deal more than knowing the meanings of the words uttered and the grammatical relations between them . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's better than knowing , than having time to prepare ? ’ |
| 12 | seems far more interesting than knowing that they 've rehearsed for hours on end . |
| 13 | If knowing how to go on in a discipline is largely a matter of rule-following , it remains the case that the rules are as much socially imposed by the disciplinary tribe as they are by epistemic considerations ( Becher 1989 ) . |
| 14 | He smiled , as if knowing why she 'd attempted a joke , and turned her around , leaning her into his body . |
| 15 | Because knowing London and knowing Tower Bridge those buildings over the far side are n't there any more |
| 16 | So certain genes enables us to do just that , because knowing the gene enables us to manufacture the product which the gene should make normally in people , and in those people who ca n't make it normally , then you can supply the defective product to them . |
| 17 | He cringed from that single revelation of himself and of his motive , even while knowing it was n't really true to his nature , that the instance had come , gone and never would return . |
| 18 | " So are you keeping up your prayers to St Anthony ? " she would ask at the end of each interview , to which Sara would dutifully reply , " Yes , mother-in-law , " while knowing that she was not . |
| 19 | While knowing that being ingratiating was as unproductive as it was craven , I could n't endure the wrath of those around me . |
| 20 | She felt she should offer to help , while knowing her help was not called for . |
| 21 | This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems . |
| 22 | ‘ You know about life in an accountant 's office ? ’ she asked with a degree of innocence , while knowing perfectly well that he did . |
| 23 | Every year that I have been Minister with responsibility for housing — it is now six years — the Housing Executive has suggested an amount which it hopes that the Government will give it , while knowing perfectly well that it will not get all that it asks for . |
| 24 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 25 | Not then — to recall my point of departure in the previous chapter — knowing thyself , so much as knowing thy discursive formations — knowing them in the process of living but also inverting them ; reinscribing oneself within , succumbing to , and demystifying them . |
| 26 | Indeed , in so far as knowing the ‘ cause ’ would restrict our reading of the poems , it is the one piece of information we can probably do without . ’ |
| 27 | Familiarity with the scope and organisation of NACAB 's information system as well as knowing how to access the relevant information are the necessary information skills , rather than a knowledge of specific legislation . |
| 28 | This and many other means to exhilarate the heart of man have been practised in all ages , as knowing there is nothing better to the preservation of man 's life . |
| 29 | ‘ Lots of times I think a president seems so out of your league as far as knowing somebody . |
| 30 | A sequence and no dates is as useful as knowing that one site lies to the west of another without knowing how far . |