Example sentences of "known [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything here fed his masochism — as he had known instinctively that it would when he applied for a similar position in the English coalfields some years before , only to be told that he was not mature enough . |
| 2 | There were things the men never spoke of to Angie ; and she had known instinctively that Eric 's job was something she and he would never openly discuss . |
| 3 | Britten and William Plomer , his librettist , must have known instinctively that an opera celebrating the most masterful sovereign in English history nevertheless could not offer a modern ( even a Coronation ) audience Good Queen Bess or Schiller 's avenging spitfire . |
| 4 | The couple felt they should make their plight known so that others would realise the danger of accepting a surveyor 's report . |
| 5 | Such a link would help make IT security issues and concerns more widely known so that these can be taken fully into account in the formulation of appropriate DTI policy and programmes . |
| 6 | Finally the position of the mouth of the river at all stages may not be known so that we may not be certain of which stretch of the former river we are dealing with . |
| 7 | I must have known somehow that he was the only person who did n't think Jake was crazy . |
| 8 | Theda had reached down to clasp her trembling fingers lightly about the cold wrist lying on the coverlet , but she had known already that there was no pulse to be discerned . |
| 9 | With this scenario , assume next that the company decides to set its price initially at 56,700 and lets it be known generally that it will hold price at that level until the average cost per unit of cumulative output falls below that figure , whereupon the company will set its price at 20 per cent above the falling average cost per cumulative unit . |
| 10 | In the later interviews it is only when grandparents were not known directly that there is no significant memory of them , and we can reasonably assume that this was also the commonest reason for lack of memory in the first set . |
| 11 | A minister need only let it be known directly that he would welcome such demonstrations of ‘ spontaneous ’ violent support , or at least would not use police power to suppress it . |
| 12 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 13 | I only wish I 'd known before that he was so ill . |
| 14 | Was it not sheer arrogant complacency for the right hon. Gentleman to tell the National Economic Development Council at its recent meeting that if he had known before that there would be a fall of 15 per cent . |
| 15 | I had n't known before that there was an underground car park to the building , but as the building was shared , only about eight spaces were reserved for Prior , Keen , Baldwin bigwigs . |
| 16 | Indeed , it is well known now that many mammals and birds can develop aversions to novel foods that were followed by ill-effects hours after ingestion ( reviewed by Domjan , 1980 ) . |
| 17 | Although it is well known nowadays that , in addition to the noxious cereal grains , genetic factors may predispose susceptible subjects to an immune response that damages the small intestinal mucosa and the other environmental factors may triggerthis abnormal immune response , it was Dicke 's astute observations some 50 years ago that first changed the prognosis and treatment of these patients dramatically . |
| 18 | Patients who have little chance of being well enough to leave hospital even if resuscitated by medical specialists could make it known beforehand that they prefer to be left alone . |
| 19 | Benskins increased his rent by £6,000 last year and John is convinced they must have known then that leases policy . |
| 20 | Later that Christmas Gabriel had drunk a bottle of rum watching a pirate film on the television , and she had known then that , really , it was all over . |
| 21 | Had she known then that her life was in jeopardy ? |
| 22 | Yet if I 'd known then that the cup was Undry … |
| 23 | Mr Major has let it be known privately that the chancellor will not be moved in the New Year reshuffle . |
| 24 | It is known biologically that radiation of all types changes the structure of cells . |
| 25 | 6 Later , in a more morbid vein , he confessed : " I suspected all along that there was little possibility that I would be forgiven for making known publicly that Stalin disgusted me , and that I could not stomach the Nazi-Soviet pact and the events in Finland . |