Example sentences of "[that] know how [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Insects hiding on the trunks and branches of trees represent an equally rich harvest for those animals that know how to gather them . |
| 3 | ‘ You have to hire people that know how to work the equipment , who know how to repair things . |
| 4 | We also reject the belief that knowing how to use terminology in which to speak of language is undesirable . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | I said , ‘ I think you should know how to cook a few things , in case they ask you to feed the children , ’ but she seemed to think that knowing how to make a Marmite sandwich would be enough . |
| 7 | Jack Stone seems to be the sort of fish that knows how to cut a net or two . ’ |
| 8 | So , vote Labour , the party that knows how to keep its trousers on . |
| 9 | And the one that knows how to make time fly . |