Example sentences of "[that] [noun] know how " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Different roads are marked in different colours so that motorists know how big each road is . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That strength comes from the fact that Eubank knows how to look after himself in more ways than one . |