Example sentences of "to know by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairy Tales by Terry Jones ( Puffin , £1.95 ) CHRISTMAS BEST-SELLERS Based on last week 's sales in the children 's department of Waterstone 's in Edinburgh : 1 Rhyming Stew by Roald Dahl ( Jonathan Cape , £7.95 ) 2 Oi Get Off Our Train by John Burningham ( Jonathan Cape , £7.95 ) 3 Matilda by Roald Dahl 4 The Lion , The Witch and The Wardrobe by CSLewis ( Fontana Lion , £2.25 ) 5 Prince Caspian by CSLewis ( Fontana Lion , £2.25 ) 6 Almost Everything There Is To Know by Tim Hunkin ( Pyramid Books , £4.95 ) 7 The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter ( Frederick Warne , £20 ) 8 Budgie The Helicopter by HRHDuchess of York ( Simon & Schuster , £4.95 ) 9 The Way Things Work by David MacAuley ( Dorling Kindersley , £14.95 ) 10 Peace At Last by Jill Murphy ( Walker , £6.95 ) THE YEAR 'S BEST-SELLERS Supplied by Jane Churchill at Children 's Bookcentre in Kensington , London : |
| 2 | Mr Kinnock has to be protected from questions because he is likely to give the wrong answers , even about specific Labour policies he is supposed to know by heart . |
| 3 | Send not to know by whom the trigger is squeezed , it is squeezed by us all . |
| 4 | You ought to know by this time that — in the language of popular fiction — he has eyes for no one but you . ’ |
| 5 | You will only find out what you need to know by really listening to what is said to you . |
| 6 | Dressed sombrely in a black suit splendidly contrasted with the Order of St George , he refused to plead , but persistently demanded to know by what authority a small minority of the House of Commons , without any participation of the House of Lords , could bring him to trial . |
| 7 | This later proved a very good idea because the finished panel drew in , in the same way as regular cable panels and I needed to know by how much . |
| 8 | He wants to know by tomorrow if they will allow Andersson to spend a month on loan at Newcastle . |
| 9 | She did n't dare go in : he was such a light sleeper , and he seemed to know by instinct when his mother was in the same room . |
| 10 | ‘ You ought to know , ’ Anna said more gently , ‘ you ought to know by now that things you want do n't just fall off trees . |
| 11 | " And I want to know by morning . " |
| 12 | First , the Athenians who were dismissed from Ithome for ‘ subversive tendencies ’ were not the Athenians who were at that moment overturning the Areopagus but precisely Kimon and ‘ his ’ hoplites ( but we have no right to assume that he chose them personally ; four thousand are a lot of people to know by name ) . |
| 13 | You 're old enough to know by now that in the country where Great-Granny comes from they do n't eat some of the things we eat . |
| 14 | One needs to know by how much , for example , screening for breast cancer reduces mortality from the disease in order to determine whether a screening programme is worthwhile . |
| 15 | Literary accomplishment was to be valued : all aspiring gentlemen were expected to know by heart the Gulistan ( The Rose Garden ) and Bustan ( The Orchard ) of Sa'di ; but more important still was grammatical correctness : ‘ In society the mirza should [ always ] try to guard against the shame of committing any mistake in conversation , for such incorrectness in speech is considered a great fault in a gentleman . ’ |
| 16 | Except to know by your absence that you are enjoying yourself as you should be . ’ |
| 17 | Churchill , while being ‘ too much a man ’ to kick the PM on the ground , had agreed to send a letter to Downing Street demanding to know by midday on Sunday the exact position he could expect to hold in the government . |
| 18 | I do understand the expression , to know by sight . |
| 19 | Yeah , that 's why they 're here and really I would like to know by Friday m tennish . |
| 20 | ‘ And you ought to know by now that it 's a waste of time . ’ |
| 21 | Oh er as long as I 've got it Friday morning , but I lo , I need to know by |
| 22 | But we need to know by how much . |
| 23 | In fifty minutes or so , you will have an extraordinary experience : you will know nothing of the baglady to begin with , but you will know everything you need to know by the end . |