Example sentences of "to know [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have some rather good jewellery ’ ( and it was as if somewhere among her assortment of boxes was a very special one — but there was not — a mysterious Ali Baba store of necklaces , bracelets , rings , even a tiara ) ; ‘ I do n't think my insurers would be very pleased to know that a window was left open at night . ’ |
| 2 | Ghorbanifar claimed to be intimate with the government of Iran , close enough to know that a ‘ terrorist war ’ would ensue unless the United States reached a rapid agreement cemented with arms . |
| 3 | He stops short of hoping Grobbelaar makes one of his increasingly frequent mistakes tomorrow , but Knight is professional enough to know that a team has to take advantage of any breaks that come their way . |
| 4 | It was a mixed class and the students … regular in attendance and conscientious about the work for the class … . although the amount varied , one student produced some written work every week , two or three others did eight or nine papers … enough was produced for me to know that a real interest was being taken in the class . |
| 5 | And it may surprise you to know that a number of the county people are not what they appear . |
| 6 | They need to know that a part of your day will be theirs . |
| 7 | It 's good to know that a British firm ( in this case the largest producers of centre lathes in the world ) will be able to supply the technology needed to build automatic production lines ( this issue , p 632 ) . |
| 8 | To know that a particular animal dance , or brightly coloured display , operates as a territorial device or as a sexual arousal mechanism does not make it any less beautiful . |
| 9 | Sometimes the narrative is intended to puzzle ( is he doing it or dreaming it ? ) , sometimes the narrative requires the viewer to know that a sequence is a dream or a memory . |
| 10 | But it is one thing for us to know that a person needs God 's conviction and another thing to say so to him . |
| 11 | Obviously you get to know that a Gibson has a different tone from a Strat , and you 'd also know the kind of sound you wanted . |
| 12 | It 's nice to know that a British company is so much at home overseas . |
| 13 | Saad Rashid was a shrewd man , good with figures , but it did not take his shrewdness to know that a sentence of death would have been passed upon him by those who had once been his colleagues in Baghdad . |
| 14 | But it 's interesting to know that a lot of the copies either must have copies , which they should have or that they know what bin it . |
| 15 | It was unspeakably horrid to know that a great , slithering , inchoate mass of effluence was crawling and creeping and smelling its way towards you . |
| 16 | There is also a section devoted to the polite ways of ‘ playing around between the classes ; you do n't have to be British to know that a great sexual attraction exists between people not like us ’ . |
| 17 | Customers must be able to know that a garment with the label ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was made of 100 per cent natural fibres . |
| 18 | For example , when storing information about employees academic qualifications , does one really need to know that a Research Chemist has a CSE in woodwork ? |
| 19 | In fact , there were so many things she did n't want him to know that a list of them would have stretched on and on . |
| 20 | There is no indication as to why this name was chosen but you may be interested to know that a Grizzled Skipper is a butterfly that , unlike the Grizzled Skipper card , is not at all colourful . |
| 21 | He was not to know that a real fear was beginning to overwhelm Sally-Anne . |
| 22 | Is my hon. Friend aware that the residents of West Yorkshire will be pleased to know that a decision on the matter is not too far off ? |
| 23 | Jube had witnessed — and taken part in — sufficient bar-room brawls in his life as a trucker to know that a sure-fire way of making certain a felled opponent stayed down , was to heel-stomp him . |
| 24 | You will all however be pleased to know that a new day has been arranged — 27th February 1982 at Quintin Kynaston School . |
| 25 | My Lords , erm I I I 'm glad t t to know that a text is readily available er I agree with my Noble Friend that if he took the simple course of comparing the Bill with the nineteen sixty four Act as it was printed , he would have run into trouble . |
| 26 | You 'll be pleased to know that a minibus driver from Faringdon in Oxfordshire has offered to take Mrs Wilkinson to her family and friends in Blackpool . |
| 27 | Rehabilitation officer Margaret Harding , 64 , was not meant to know that a special presentation had been organised , but word soon got out . |
| 28 | Smokers in Stamford and Drury Houses will be pleased to know that a new smoking room is now available on the ground floor of Drury House . |
| 29 | Quite apart from the fact that they find it very interesting , I think that people outside the university would be pleased to know that a course of such down to earth practical is taught in a place which they sometimes regard as being rather airy fairy . |
| 30 | For most purposes it is enough to know that an enterprise makes losses — that its revenues are less than the sum of its wages , its cost of capital and its cost of material inputs ( raw materials , components , energy and so on ) . |