Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] know [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Only a few that we know of , ’ said Merymose .
2 Staff from all over the country took part and here are just a few that we know of : .
3 ‘ I 'm so glad that you know at last , ’ she said .
4 Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared .
5 Francis once told me that his father , Scott , had two or three that he knew about .
6 Nevertheless , it is to these two writers that we owe almost all that we know of El Cid 's life from those who were his contemporaries .
7 ‘ That all that we know of ourselves is an unimportant encrustation over the true seed of the eternal idea which lives inside us , using us as a vehicle merely , which develops in spite of us .
8 The story of Godric , and all that we know of medieval commerce and transport , suggests that a merchant needed to enjoy adventure and risk for its own sake .
9 Botanically , it is a one-off with no obvious affinities and no immediate allies ; all that we know of its ancestors ( from fossil evidence ) is that they were once common over a much wider area , as near as Germany for instance , during the mid-Tertiary period approximately 30 million years ago .
10 The Northumbrians were instructed not to establish as king anyone who was illegitimate ( a slighting reference perhaps to Aldfrith and his descendants , or , for all that we know to the contrary , to other rulers — Aethelwald or Alhred ) nor to conspire to kill a king who was the Lord 's anointed , and any bishop or priest who was involved in such a crime was to be expelled from the Church and any layman excommunicated .
11 All that we know for certain about his coronation oath is that he promised to preserve the laws of the realm unimpaired and to do nothing touching the dignity of the crown without first obtaining the consent of his prelates and chief magnates .
12 So far , all that she knew of Josie was that she owned a big handbag .
13 On the other hand , she reflected , it would fit well with all that she knew of Miss Coldharbour 's habits if she had fed Wheeler with information about Gray which he 'd used to bully Gray with .
14 All that I know about insurance I have gleamed from courses such as this .
15 I think there 's I think there 's quite a few and I think this is what swayed it , the fact that they have had erm , I know of at least ten say ten , there 's one , two , three on the other side of the road which is good because Bob which is another one , so that 's four , there 's which is the other side of the shop , is five , there 's us , six , Jean seven , the eight , erm the guy the other side of the which is nine , there is Ginny over the and the erm old persons ' home , that 's ten that I know of for certain about , er and then I 've heard of other people were gon na be writing in , now whether they actually did or not I do n't know
16 This is a little hard : Eaux-Chaudes is a gloomy place , but not hellish that I know of .
17 BELVILLE : Why , Mrs. Jervis , are there any men that will not let her alone that you know of ?
18 So it 's important that you know about your rainwater disposal system — so that you can either put it in good repair and keep it that way or safely replace an old system with a modern plastic one which will work properly .
19 Nine that we know about .
20 like most of the the child care was done by the girls , but there was actually a few of the boys that decided they wanted to work in the nurseries and o eh the five that done , there 's actually two that we know of a are actually doing child care as a career .
21 Well the blacksmiths made two that I know of .
22 This famous author of 3,000 ‘ incomparable ’ ( Byron ) letters , among other largely dilettante activities , showed by a letter written to Sir Horace Mann on 8 June 1791 that he knew of the 1788 Kentish Town Act , which freed the Earl of Camden to build 1,400 houses in Kentish Town .
23 ‘ I am only surprised that you know of it . ’
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