Example sentences of "of knowing [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Never again had he thought the love of woman could touch his heart , not after the pain of knowing Tatiana was lost to him for ever .
2 " Only twenty-five quid , and that was on account of knowing Frank who used to work there . "
3 But Cunningham at least has the benefit of knowing New Zealand conditions .
4 The joy of knowing forgiveness
5 This part of the judge 's ruling is important because studies of passive smoking are beset with problems such as establishing a control and of knowing exposure levels .
6 We feel drawn to distinguish two ways of knowing things , an inward way and an outward way .
7 Daft as it may seem after three years of knowing Jim Bob , I still do n't know him at all .
8 One line of epistemological inquiry leads Habermas to explore the developed forms of knowledge in a way that locates them in terms of his phenomenological grounding of knowing subjects .
9 Gatting 's Faisalabad outburst is interpreted with a certain amount of knowing understanding , but Lillee , the Chappells , Lloyd , Holding , Croft , Richards , Greig and Miandad join him and many others in a category which should be cringeing when thinking back on some of its unsavoury behaviour .
10 Maggie kept catching her eye with an expression of knowing amusement , but at the same time she obviously hated having these men stomping through her every possession and destroying any remaining magic in her secret chamber .
11 Paul himself after decades of knowing Christ could still say that he had not attained the purpose for which Christ laid hold of him ; he was still following on ( Phil .
12 She closed her eyes as the pain of knowing rose and twisted inside .
13 After all these years of knowing Lucy , too !
14 Friendly and approachable , he makes a point of knowing people individually whenever he can .
15 For just one fleeting moment , Robbie visualised a long warm sultry afternoon in her cabin or on Water Gypsy 's deck , with the subtle torture of knowing Fen was close at hand but totally unavailable .
16 Despite a large helping of hokum , Warlock ( 15 Medusa 18 Oct ) makes the supernatural transition from 1691 to 1988 fairly successfully and with a touch or two of knowing humour .
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