Example sentences of "know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was hoping he would not offer us a glass of his very potent drink that I now know as Calvados . |
| 2 | This is partly due to my experiences as a politician , because I know as a politician that when you are doing something naughty , nothing is more effective than to muddy the waters with complication . |
| 3 | That defeat closed the west to the Magyars who then set about colonising the Pannonian plain and founding the state we now know as Hungary . |
| 4 | Back in the good old days Turkey used to be part of what was know as ‘ Asia Minor ’ , or the ‘ Near East ’ , to distinguish its differences from Europe . |
| 5 | There were of , course , side effects especially with the poisonous remedies such as Arsenicum , and the desire to eliminate these toxic effects led him to develop , in 1815 , the method of trituration and subsequent liquid dilution and succussion , we know as the centesimal potencies . |
| 6 | In 1786 the city 's administrative offices were transferred to the Palazzo del Carmagnoli — which instantly became know as the Broletto Nuovissino , the very new Broletto ! |
| 7 | What we now know as a result of studies on the enkephalin-endorphin system has brought a new understanding of pain and of bodily responses to injury . |
| 8 | Her enormous empire , Palmyra , extended the land we now know as Iraq through to Southern Africa . |
| 9 | These distinguishing devices developed in time into the system we now know as heraldry . |
| 10 | I mean I 'm no historian , you 'd have to check up on this with my hubby , but as far as I know the Reformation started up North in Europe a guid lang mile away from Rome and the Pope and that , up in the Region of what we now know as Holland , and Germany and Alsace Lorraine . |
| 11 | This true story of a young Ayrshire doctor starts in that vast country we know as Russia , 275 years ago , during the reign of Czar Peter the Great . |
| 12 | Having crossed the river , Coilus and his men retreated northwards past what are now Coylton and Trabboch , towards the places we know as Failford and Tarbolton . |
| 13 | In later years , the post developed into an early version of that we know as Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 14 | The name Nonesuch comes from the popular name for the plant botanists know as Lychnis chalcedonica . |
| 15 | All of my experience has been gained on what we know as the fast jets ; in the air defence role I have worked on the Lightning and in the ground attack role with both the Jaguar and Tornado . |
| 16 | Human thinking and language would dissolve into a topsy-turvy jumble of uncertainty if we were to use the word know as if it were interchangeable with words like guess or dream , or if we were to say right when we really meant wrong . |
| 17 | The Party never listened to him , anyway , and it was about 15 years before they made the gushing film of the Kinnocks on the clifftop — otherwise know as Jonathan Livingstone Kinnock . |
| 18 | In the case of William Wordsworth we are fortunate in possessing his own very full account of the first part of his life , roughly down to the mid-1790s , in the ‘ Poem ’ addressed to Coleridge which we now know as The Prelude . |
| 19 | There were delays in correspondence owing to the war , and Wordsworth decided to finish , as a tribute to his friend , the ‘ poem to Coleridge ’ which we now know as the 1805 Prelude . |
| 20 | Imaginative writers know as an important item in their craft , that the way to convey emotion with most lucidity and particularity is to choose the apt words , not for the emotion itself , but for the image or scene which activates it . |
| 21 | In the seventeenth century a famous visionary and seer , locally know as the Brahan Seer , predicted ‘ That the day will come when every stream will have its bridge , balls of fire will pass rapidly up and down the Strath of Peffery , carriages without horses will cross the country from sea to sea . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I know as a public figure I am likely to be lampooned . |
| 23 | At school , you start off , you integrate with everybody right up to the third year so that , in the third year or the fourth year , your friends or who you know as friends , they might call you a ‘ black bastard ’ . |
| 24 | Perhaps ironically , more general social scientific studies of children , child care and family life have rarely been drawn upon to inform and clarify what we know as a basis for discussions of child abuse . |
| 25 | The purpose here essentially is to outline what we know as a prelude to tackling the themes and patterns which emerge in a more analytical way in subsequent chapters . |
| 26 | There was an hors-d'oeuvre of eggs and anchovies , there were hot grilled fresh sardines to follow , the vegetable course was côtes de blettes , the rib parts of those enormous leaves of the spinach family which we know as chard and which are much cultivated in the Rhône valley ; the leaves themselves are cooked in the same way as spinach , the fleshy stalks and ribs were , on this occasion , sautéd in olive oil and flavoured with garlic and were delicious . |
| 27 | It was now possible to map what we now know as the motor cortex ( i.e. the part of the brain controlling muscle function ) in terms of the musculature each section controlled . |
| 28 | You fully know as an old pressman the difficulty of dealing with a big speech late at night … |
| 29 | Since 1980 the series has been sponsored by PPG Industries and is know as the PPG Indy Car World Series . |
| 30 | Erm but I , you know if you said I think you see , I think what Colin 's raising is a very interesting and important issue and I I naturally you know as a senior manager I 'm concerned about it . |