Example sentences of "[is] to know " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But who 's to know ? ’ |
| 2 | Who 's to know ? |
| 3 | But who 's to know and who 's to tell ? |
| 4 | Funny that no one has ever noticed Mrs Thatcher 's knock knees and pigeon toes , but then , the ever considerate television news cameras always film her from the knees up , so who 's to know . |
| 5 | ‘ And , ’ he added gloomily , ‘ who 's to know when that will happen . |
| 6 | Over our harms , who 's to know |
| 7 | ‘ And who 's to know what I do to you out here in the middle of nowhere ? ’ |
| 8 | A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here . |
| 9 | A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here . |
| 10 | It 's to know that in advance because I think they then have a practical contribution to make . |
| 11 | As part of the course , she has to choose a subject of her own about which to write a paper ; one of her difficulties is to know how to form her own views , not just copy already received opinions . |
| 12 | She tells me how her mum and dad know everything there is to know about fish , and tried to teach her . |
| 13 | The trick here is to know what you want to say and make sure that you say it . |
| 14 | Fairy Tales by Terry Jones ( Puffin , £1.95 ) CHRISTMAS BEST-SELLERS Based on last week 's sales in the children 's department of Waterstone 's in Edinburgh : 1 Rhyming Stew by Roald Dahl ( Jonathan Cape , £7.95 ) 2 Oi Get Off Our Train by John Burningham ( Jonathan Cape , £7.95 ) 3 Matilda by Roald Dahl 4 The Lion , The Witch and The Wardrobe by CSLewis ( Fontana Lion , £2.25 ) 5 Prince Caspian by CSLewis ( Fontana Lion , £2.25 ) 6 Almost Everything There Is To Know by Tim Hunkin ( Pyramid Books , £4.95 ) 7 The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter ( Frederick Warne , £20 ) 8 Budgie The Helicopter by HRHDuchess of York ( Simon & Schuster , £4.95 ) 9 The Way Things Work by David MacAuley ( Dorling Kindersley , £14.95 ) 10 Peace At Last by Jill Murphy ( Walker , £6.95 ) THE YEAR 'S BEST-SELLERS Supplied by Jane Churchill at Children 's Bookcentre in Kensington , London : |
| 15 | For all the strength of its grip on American affections , the industry has not yet done a Hollywood : sporting stars , unlike some film stars , do not pretend that they know everything there is to know about matters from a nuclear winter to farm policies and demand to be listened to on them all . |
| 16 | To have such ‘ scientific knowledge ’ of , say , the facts that man is the only animal with a sense of humour , that gold dissolves in aqua regia , or that triangles have angles equal to two right angles , is to know that these things must be so and can not be otherwise . |
| 17 | Reading Unamuno , I found this passage which gave me comfort among all the mockery : ‘ The greatest height of heroism to which an individual , like a people , can attain is to know how to face ridicule . ’ |
| 18 | After the giving of God 's torah , they know all there is to know . |
| 19 | What a comforting fact that is to know |
| 20 | Not , of course , that she is to know that , and not , of course , that I shall tell her . |
| 21 | She wants to know all there is to know about Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 22 | There is a sense in which the greatest art in conducting is to know when one should not conduct . |
| 23 | What a relief it is to know the name of the instrumentalist or conductor concerned and to listen to a programme of records where music takes precedence over ‘ talk for talk 's sake ’ . |
| 24 | Being robbed is losing the confident skin you have grown naturally ; it is to know it can happen to you and if it has happened once … |
| 25 | Men of science want to know everything there is to know , do everything there is to do whether it 's turning a cow into beef burgers in 10 minutes flat or creating the ‘ ultimate ’ erotic experience ; men do it all in the name of progress . |
| 26 | The first is to know where they are , that is , acquire positional information , and the second is to use this information appropriately . |
| 27 | The important thing for the pastor who sometimes directs and sometimes counsels is to know what he is doing and when . |
| 28 | These little leaves are like tongues or hands to sing or conduct the wind music , for of all trees , the beeches have the supreme choir and orchestra and to hear them in a high wind is to know divine music . |
| 29 | The best of both worlds is to know and do . |
| 30 | The important thing about exercise is to know what kind is safe and how much is enough . |