Example sentences of "[that] [noun] know [Wh adv] " in BNC.

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1 If she could get the address or the telephone number of the hotel she could warn her twin that Roman knew where she and Garry were .
2 Pollack & Pickett ( 63 ) , presenting listeners with stretches of conversational speech in a gating experiment , found that samples of about 140 csec ( i.e. about seven words ) were required before intelligibility reached 90% , despite the fact that listeners knew how many words were in each sample , and , for later samples , were hearing repetitions of the initial context .
3 He realized that his last chance was to make his captors believe that Donna knew where the book they sought was hidden , whatever it was .
4 A assumes that B knows where A is ; A and B are not in the same place ; neither A nor B are in Edinburgh ; A thinks B has been to A's place before 5 .
5 Make sure that there is a briefing before the visit — that people know why they are going and on what they should concentrate their attention .
6 We 're trying to bring the knowledge of black history out so that people know where we 're coming from and have no reason for prejudice and fear . ’
7 They assume that people know where their own best interests lie ; they assume that people will automatically participate in politics if their interests are threatened ; and they assume that all interests possess the " potential " to organise and be influential in politics .
8 We 've got to set up a proper complaints procedure , so that people know how to complain about Social Services , although I doubt very much whether anybody would ever want to complain about Oxfordshire 's Social Services , and so on .
9 In the nineteenth century , when the only particle energies that people knew how to use were the low energies of a few electron volts generated by chemical reactions such as burning , it was thought that atoms were the smallest unit .
10 In previous work , the investigator has developed a means to investigate children 's understanding of recursive beliefs in story characters , that is , whether they can understand that John does not know that Mary knows where the ice cream van is .
11 With the increasing popularity of this hobby it is important that users know where they can legally ride , say the county council .
12 Some educational psychologists visit the schools in their area on a regular basis so that teachers know when they will be coming in and can discuss children they may be worried about ; others visit at the request of the school or when a child is formally referred to them .
13 Different roads are marked in different colours so that motorists know how big each road is .
14 Put at its most simple , this means knowing how to listen , being aware of how messages might be received , presenting oneself clearly so that others know how to react to us and rewarding achievement .
15 Everyone assumes that students know how to make and use their notes , and yet time and time again a piece of work does not receive the grade it deserves because crucial material or ideas have been left out ; often this is information which the lecturer gave out in classes but which the student did not note down .
16 That strength comes from the fact that Eubank knows how to look after himself in more ways than one .
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