Example sentences of "know to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will it not be found that the political activity of societies consists ordinarily , perhaps invariably , in filling sieves and making sand ropes — sieves which those who fill them half know to be sieves , sand which those who weave it into ropes suspect to be sand after all ? |
| 2 | The rig is about ten feet long and is attached by a blood know to the main reel line . |
| 3 | If you are new in the area your estate agent will be pleased to recommend a firm whom they know to be reputable . |
| 4 | As I know to my cost , any change in the health service is controversial . |
| 5 | Never apply it to a document that you know to be false or incorrect . |
| 6 | The fact that people will give money to save the otter , a nocturnal animal whose presence is detected even by full-time otter survey teams only by its tracks and droppings , is the best answer I know to that mean-spirited and illogical argument : ‘ What 's the use of saving it , if I ca n't see it ? ’ |
| 7 | Any one of us may also apprehend an individual whom we know to be , or whom we have reasonable grounds for suspecting to be , guilty of such an offence as long as it has been committed . |
| 8 | Whilst I entirely agree with Nochlin 's decision not to amend any of the articles ( ‘ despite the strong temptation to correct what I now know to be errors of fact or feel to be mistakes of interpretation ’ , p. xii ) , neither should they have been allowed to stand in an historical vacuum . |
| 9 | We are clearly never obliged to follow any human direction contrary to what we know to be scriptural or morally right . |
| 10 | At this time I remember too the widely reported story I had once thought apocryphal but now know to be in Dr. Ronald Glasser 's The Body is the Hero . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll talk to some friends of mine if you promise to tell what you know to the Jockey Club . |
| 12 | We must see how this doubt develops and be careful to presuppose only what we know to be true and to commit ourselves consciously to the consequences of these suppositions . |
| 13 | ( These diets could be said to have been half-right , in that they did cut out refined carbohydrates , but unfortunately without adding fibre-rich carbohydrate foods which we now know to be of such help to slimmers . ) |
| 14 | All was well algae-wise apart from a smear of brown algae on the glass , some beard algae on the bogwood and on some of the slow-growing plants and what I now know to be the tell-tale sign of a thin greasy film on the water surface , which is present long before it thickens up into slime algae . |
| 15 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
| 16 | Until then I had always held the view that police officers do not fabricate evidence against men they know to be innocent , but rather against those whom they genuinely , if mistakenly , believe to be guilty . |
| 17 | ‘ being a person on foot ’ This point is proved by the officer or traffic warden stating in evidence ‘ A man , I now know to be John Smith , stepped from the kerb on the south side of the road and walked towards me in contravention of my signal to him to stop etc . ’ |
| 18 | The vast majority of these fish I have kept over long periods and know to be reliable , easy to keep and in the case of some , very long lived . |
| 19 | The daredevil flyer — know to millions of TV viewers because of his handlebar moustache — made the disclosures in a book about the conflict . |
| 20 | Vaccines made from blood and gammaglobulin are not know to be a risk . |
| 21 | Examples include the attractive Devonshire Cup Coral , Caryophyllia smithi , which is a warm water species with a rather restricted distribution in the south and west ; or perhaps the attractive Leopard spotted Goby , Thorogobius ephippiatus a small fish know to be plentiful in the Mediterranean , but seen mostly by SCUBA divers . |
| 22 | Consequently , unless we are convinced of the possibility of a reductive account of knowledge , let us not tie our hands by refusing to make use of facts that we know to be true . |
| 23 | Rather , we can characterize particular features of our perceptual apparatus ( which we know to be the source of their reliability ) and ask for an explanation of those features . |
| 24 | Under these circumstances the process we know to be distributed across all of the input/output cell connections appears to be localized in one neuron . |
| 25 | Iago continues in other , more familiar postures , professing love to Othello and Desdemona ( III.iii. 119ff. , 136ff. , 196ff. , 213ff. , 218f. , 225 ) and feigning a sympathy for their sufferings which we know to be a covert expression of his gloating : As Cicero said , there is no more flagrant injustice than ‘ that of the hypocrite who , at the very moment when he is most false , makes it his business to appear virtuous ’ . |
| 26 | Of course , warranties and maintenance contracts are all very well , but — as customers of Ti'ko and Olympic Technology know to their cost — agreements with manufacturers are of precious little use if the company goes bust . |
| 27 | Gaseous or diffuse nebulæ , which we know to be stellar birthplaces , are in general rather disappointing binocular objects , though there are a few exceptions such as M42 , the Sword of Orion ( not to be confused with the Sword-Handle in Perseus ) . |
| 28 | A tolerable degree of success resulted from these early attempts at administration on the European continent ; in Ireland , as we know to our cost , it was to be another story . |
| 29 | It 's full of hope and warmth , and utterly convincing , down to the catch in Christy 's voice , which from past experience , I know to be genuine . |
| 30 | However , in the passage in which he specifically considers whether a woman can be ordained , his answering in the negative , it must be pointed out , is dependent on biological presuppositions which we now know to be false . |