Example sentences of "knowing [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing the troupe 's constant hunger , she arranged an enormous spread for the reception and was hurt when no one from her troupe turned up . |
| 2 | They 've got no confidence without knowing the distances to the greens and the pins . ’ |
| 3 | The dead sat around the edge of the game and watched , knowing the secrets . |
| 4 | But when Duncan reminded him of this incident some years later , he " not only denied knowing the ballad but singing it … " |
| 5 | It could be a very important story , and , knowing the damage our grape-vine could do with any story , the only way to stop that was to keep this one to myself . |
| 6 | Knowing the school |
| 7 | Knowing the things of this world was certainly subordinate to theological concerns . |
| 8 | ‘ Or is it that it does n't seem long ? he continued bitterly , knowing the futility of carping , but being unable to stop it . |
| 9 | His father dozing open-mouthed in his chair , his mother knitting vacantly , neither understanding the misery of their son , who fidgeted by the window , not knowing what to do , but knowing the futility of asking ‘ What shall I do ? ’ |
| 10 | Not seeing Fen for weeks or seeing him and knowing the futility of it all . |
| 11 | However , knowing the activity tells us very little about the possible biological damage caused . |
| 12 | Even if the brain were designed so that components could be easily removed , there is the issue of what we can conclude about the functions of its components from knowing the effects of removing one of them . |
| 13 | They did this over two weeks , but there was no means of knowing the energies of the neutrons , the essential information that would tell them whether they were from the fusion of deuterium and be the final proof . |
| 14 | I was no closer to knowing the selection procedure , as my conversations about this with the other recruits had been based on mere speculation and gossip . |
| 15 | ‘ Knowing the attitude of these men , they wo n't let me fail . |
| 16 | L.C. knowing the goal and directing the evocation towards it . |
| 17 | Knowing the complications and expense involved in getting together the various unguents required , one can assume that these items had already been accumulated by those to whom the task of embalming the royal remains had been devolved . |
| 18 | If you show that you are a master of the relevant knowledge , the examiner will readily give you credit for knowing the rest of the subject , An example would be the question : ‘ The jury is a historical anachronism . ’ |
| 19 | Knowing the ages of the children is also crucial in quickly planning toys and activities for them to do during the session . |
| 20 | When national stations broadcast chiefly in the shortwaves the range of different newscasts available is immediately wider ; when people have every expectation that all broadcasts will tell some lies , they use different broadcasts as if they were radio beacons for navigators of truth : knowing the position of each , they can calculate the co-ordinates of reality with an acceptable degree of certainty . |
| 21 | Ramsay himself took a detachment and raced ahead therefore , knowing the position . |
| 22 | It was stated above that full indexing — knowing the position of a record on a track — is seldom useful , because it does not usually speed up the search for that record . |
| 23 | In text b the problem of interpretation arises because of not knowing the referents for the expressions He , them , on that occasion and them and not having a value to fix the time expression today . |
| 24 | It is true that today 's speakers , not knowing the origins of generic he , may regard it as just a feature of grammar . |
| 25 | I 'm so pleased with her for knowing the way I want to hug her . |
| 26 | He did n't envy Lee going up with Caspar pulling , and not knowing the way like Philip did . |
| 27 | Knowing the way Kirov works , it might not even be a carrot . |
| 28 | Control wanted a complete run-down , and knowing the way Hurley operated , I think the DIA probably had a better handle on it from my back-channel stuff than DEA headquarters did through its own official channels . ’ |
| 29 | Knowing the way that the refractive index of the solar corona depends on frequency ( ) , it was possible to determine the magnitude of the effect from the delays measured at the two frequencies . |
| 30 | Is it not the case that the connections to the tunnel will be in existence long before the scheme before the House can be completed or , knowing the way British Rail manages to cock things up , probably before it starts digging any of the soil ? |