Example sentences of "[adv] to know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Workers who can be exposed to excessively cold weather conditions have not only to know about survival measures during over-exposure , but be able and willing to carry them out . |
| 2 | think feminism has to provide a unified , positive alternative for all women , in order for them to be able not only to know about but to reject and try to escape subordination ( 1979 : 129 ) . |
| 3 | He would have liked to have known what Louis planned , if only to know in whose cause Colonel Smith had sacrificed his life and how much information Smith had kept hidden . |
| 4 | Sometimes parents fail to give the true reason why something upsets them because they think the youngster is not old enough to know about such things . |
| 5 | Been in combat long enough to know about fall-back positions in case things go wrong . ’ |
| 6 | I received a strong impression that it was not enough to know about injustice and suffering ; practical solutions had to be found . |
| 7 | You 're old enough to know by now that in the country where Great-Granny comes from they do n't eat some of the things we eat . |
| 8 | ‘ Wet and cold 's quite enough to know in a lifetime full of fish ! ’ |
| 9 | As a boy , of course , I was not to know of such matters , such degradation , such humiliation and indignities . |
| 10 | He appeared genuinely not to know of Atkins and to be trying to be helpful . |
| 11 | She did n't look old enough not to know of the riggers . |
| 12 | " … I would think it a sufficient detriment to the confider that information given in confidence is to be disclosed to persons whom he would prefer not to know of it , even though the disclosure would not be harmful to him in any positive way . " |
| 13 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 14 | For a girl not to know about periods before she has them ? |
| 15 | I 'm not to know about the gates … |
| 16 | I thought you preferred not to know about the mechanics of miracles . ’ |
| 17 | Non-drinkers tended not to know about Guinness and found the advertisements very difficult to understand . |
| 18 | Send not to know by whom the trigger is squeezed , it is squeezed by us all . |
| 19 | But , my Lord Mayor , Labour were not to know in the early eighties how popular the Tenants Right to Buy would be . |
| 20 | Notwithstanding the fact that Dirks was found not guilty , the tests laid down in the case are of great significance : a tipper 's liability is contingent upon the purpose of his action ; while a tippee 's liability is limited to those situations where he knows or ought reasonably to know of the insider 's breach of duty . |
| 21 | But it 's a good technical business to have for other people as well to know about . |
| 22 | There are a few people who claim even to know about the lobbying process in Brussels . |
| 23 | Sometimes the grown-ups say ‘ well , look , this is just not the type of thing I want my child even to know about . |
| 24 | ‘ But I do n't think there 's anything else to know about her , ’ Ingrid faltered . |