Example sentences of "know of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind . |
| 2 | Yet I know of no picture in which the mid-day heat of Midsummer is so admirably expressed ; and were not the eye refreshed by the shade thrown over a great part of the foreground by some young trees , that border the road , and the cool blue of water near it , one would wish , in looking at it , for a parasol , as Fuseli wished for an umbrella when standing before one of Constable 's showers . |
| 3 | ‘ Tell you what , I 'll ring around some of my old university friends if you like and see if they know of anywhere . |
| 4 | However , we know of two firms who make similar dovecotes together with other garden ornaments : Roseney Farm Designs , Lanlivery , Bodmin , Cornwall ( Tel : 0208 872664 ) and Forsham Dovecotes , Goreside Farm , Great Chart , Ashford , Kent ( Tel : 0233–820 229 ) . |
| 5 | In order that as many people as possible may benefit from the information please take a copy if you know of someone else who would find the booklet helpful . |
| 6 | I know of no world champion boxers who stand rooted to the spot . |
| 7 | I know of some competitors who fight from a fully sideways-facing straddle stance . |
| 8 | What we know of the family shows that it enjoyed its privileges to the full , and shared a positive and happy lifestyle , without hardship , yet without vaunted excess — a balanced lifestyle , despite his indispositions . |
| 9 | Such assumptions are quite contrary to what we know of how perception works . |
| 10 | Behind the geniality and the ebullient showmanship , something ‘ passionate and austere ’ — I know of no other testimony which strikes that necessary note so firmly . |
| 11 | Out of D.S. Chambers and Michael Baxandall and some Italian scholars Robinson measures up Pound 's ideas about the right relation between artist and patron against what we know of how patronage in fact worked in the ducal fiefs of Renaissance Italy ; and when he deals with the closeness of Pound 's views on this and related matters to Ruskin 's ideas ( a theme common to all these essayists ) , Robinson dares to broach the too long forbidden topic of the poet 's antagonism — inertly received , so some would say , rather than considered — to Christian faith and Christian ethics . |
| 12 | We know of innumerable kinds of things that could not possibly be the answer to our question ; we know , then , what God is not , but nothing at all of what God is . |
| 13 | Here , as with most of Shostakovich , the content they locate is a projection of what they know of its circumstances - by which only a heart of stone would not be moved . |
| 14 | The intention in this chapter is to document some of the resources Easton 's policemen and women draw on in accomplishing their work , with a view to demonstrating the similarity in the way they ‘ do ’ ordinary policing compared to what we know of policemen and women in societies without Northern Ireland 's extreme divisions . |
| 15 | Both large and small versions of many sections coexisted , but did not communicate with one another , or even know of one another 's presence . |
| 16 | On a clear dawn or a copper sunset I know of no other mountain which has quite such dramatic appeal . |
| 17 | I come now to what will be the first of many simplicities which I shall offer to you this afternoon ; for I am sure you already realise from what you know of my speakings and writings — and it will be all the more painfully obvious in half an hour 's time — that I am incurably simpliste . |
| 18 | But from what we know of local practices It would seem that she must have been crucified Very near an ant-hill . |
| 19 | Finniston proudly describes it ‘ as the first essay in caring capitalism that I know of . ’ |
| 20 | In one case I know of , two friends resolved to escape because they had heard their parents ‘ scheming ’ of such marriages in the near future . |
| 21 | Cullam 's a damned liar and all we know of McCloy rests on his word alone . |
| 22 | The authors know of no experiments in which the strengths of sexual drive and sexual receptiveness have been systematically studied throughout the whole 24 hours . |
| 23 | I know of no natural movement you could reinforce . ’ |
| 24 | Please remember to let the Carers know if you know of somebody who is lonely . |
| 25 | Please remember to let the Carers know if you know of somebody who is lonely . |
| 26 | If you are interested , or know of anyone suitably qualified who might be , apply to the office on 0621 868113 for details . |
| 27 | If you know of any in existence , please contact him at the London office . |
| 28 | She could hear a hedgehog moving ‘ noiselessly ’ in the undergrowth , distinguish trees by the rustle of their leaves in the wind and the feel of their bark , and know of the nearness of flowers by their scents . |
| 29 | MI5 never replied , GCHQ expressed polite and emphatically arm 's length interest , and the CIA offered help , exhibits and the information that the only other museum of spying they know of is in Havana . |
| 30 | He wants a girl friend and I want a boy friend , and as I like him ( or at least what I know of him ) and I think he likes me , I think it would be good for both of us if we could be friends . |