Example sentences of "knows by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , one knows by reflection that one 's own soul or mind does exist . |
| 2 | Diana in Private : The Princess Nobody Knows by Lady Colin Campbell Smith Gryphon , £15.99 DIANA IN PRIVATE is a nasty little book . |
| 3 | And as every greyhaired person knows by dint of experience , there is no black and white issue , only grey . |
| 4 | Peter has to be content with the single class reader provided by the school , which he already knows by heart . |
| 5 | It needed an operating system , which , as no doubt everyone knows by now , was supplied by an enterprising small firm called Microsoft , and became known as MSDOS ( MicroSoft Disk Operating System ) . |
| 6 | Meeting their quota , their too-small-for-comfort quota , always with generosity , understanding and compassion , understanding as a group what the individual woman knows by instinct , that this child , by existing , keeps that other child out . |
| 7 | Examples would be : where the act is not seen , as when the victim is asleep ; where the victim believes that the gun was unloaded ( Lamb [ 1967 ] 2 QB 981 ) ; where the victim knows by the accused 's words that the threat will not take place ( Tuberville v Savage ( 1669 ) 86 ER 684 ; or where the accused could not put his threat into effect : the usual illustrations are shaking a fist while on a non-stop train at a person standing on the platform and doing the same to a person standing on the opposite bank of a fast-flowing and wide river where there is no bridge . |
| 8 | Er , the position of the British government is this , that it regrets er the inconvenience and the expense , er it would like to see a very sensible resolution but it knows that there will only be a resolution as I know the honourable gentleman knows by unanimity and it does not expect to see that unanimity in the future though it will work for it . |
| 9 | What makes Gatsby 's action even more splendid is that he knows by this time that Daisy is not going to leave her husband for him . |