Example sentences of "to know that " in BNC.
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| 1 | All those who have written to the prisoners will be pleased to know that Henrick Gjoka from Albania , Reverend Lawford Imunde from Kenya and Ernesto Diaz Rodriguez from Cuba have been released . |
| 2 | In calling his recent book about his own early life by the name of The Facts , Philip Roth is issuing a challenge — expecting his readers to know that there are no bare facts , and obliging them to think hard about what happens in the recounting of the facts of a life . |
| 3 | We 've known each for long enough to know that silence is better if there is nothing specific to say . |
| 4 | I THOUGHT Joe Hyam would like to know that we changed our menu four months ago to the fixed-price system . |
| 5 | Film crazed insomniacs will be pleased to know that Vokani Film Circuit is continuing its tradition of organising a BLACK FILM ALL NIGHTER at the Triangle . |
| 6 | They will want to know that you have a safe , warm place for children to play , and that your kitchen and toilet facilities are adequate . |
| 7 | In constructivism we view the organism-environment dyad from the outside and ask how it might be possible that an organism which has input systems and which is active could ever come to know that the environment exists . |
| 8 | With limited space , it is unavoidable that I can provide only a summary of the work of a very active Association , but I thought your readers would be interested to know that schools are not being neglected . |
| 9 | Many people wish to plan their funerals in advance , and to know that they have set aside the money to pay for them : |
| 10 | For example , it is necessary to hear only a brief phrase of some Grand Waltz by Tchaikovsky , Glinka or Strauss to know that steps of grande élévation are the object of the exercise ; to hear some slow pavane , minuet or saraband is to realise that an adage is being practised . |
| 11 | HOW COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT WHEN ONE IS FINDING CITY LIFE A TRIFLE TIRESOME , ONE HAS FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO INVITE ONE OUT FOR A DAY IN THE COUNTRY … |
| 12 | Pound knew enough of his own gifts , and of the protracted strenuousness of his apprenticeship , to know that what was safe for him was not safely available to others , least of all to those he called ‘ the neophyte ’ . |
| 13 | ( He was not to know that Charles Olson , after next to no apprenticeship at all , would recklessly try to emulate him . ) |
| 14 | ‘ I have been in tennis long enough to know that it can . |
| 15 | Readers may be interested to know that the money given will go towards nutritional programmes in one of the poorest areas of Cairo . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's good for the confidence to know that the captain wanted me , ’ Larkins said . |
| 17 | It was poor propaganda for the outside world to know that the granary of Europe was suffering from famine conditions . |
| 18 | Very few Branch collecting sheets appear without the names of many cadets , and it is a great encouragement to know that so many are prepared to give up so much of their time to help the Association . |
| 19 | You may be interested to know that the name of every legator in recorded in a Book of Commemoration kept at our Headquarters . |
| 20 | Ramsey cried to the Church to be itself ; to know that its being rests upon a death and an empty tomb ; and to be itself whether modern Britain will listen or close its ears . |
| 21 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |
| 22 | She was flying , just within the still pocket of air , but enough to know that she had the power . |
| 23 | A quick glance between Rose and the girls was enough for them to know that it was better to make no mention of their elder brother . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't take it out very often but it 's nice to have , to know that you can go anywhere you want if you feel like it . ’ |
| 25 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 26 | Again , you do n't need a twin test to know that the gap in ability , build and luxury feel between the Orion and the Rover 416 is a substantial one . |
| 27 | It 's reassuring to know that even beautiful actresses worry about what they 're gong to wear to go out in the evening . |
| 28 | Lovers of a good strong cuppa may be interested to know that there may be more caffeine in a cup of tea than in a cup of coffee . |
| 29 | It is reassuring to know that experiments performed in these three rather different time-free environments have all given results like those shown in Fig. 2.2 . |
| 30 | After hearing about the latest methods of transporting troops about the battlefield , it is reassuring to know that the leg , foot and boot still work ! |