Example sentences of "[prep] knowing what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after knowing what our target is can we go on and set a transfer price that encourages each division to operate at the required volume . |
| 2 | He raises large issues : how much does one need to know to understand and engage in the dialogues within society , and between past and present , on the simplest level of knowing what is being talked about ? |
| 3 | Samuel was not , of course , a party leader , and there is no way of knowing what advice Lloyd George would have given had he been fit . |
| 4 | I think he got confident of knowing what he could do . |
| 5 | He had no way of knowing what the President thought . |
| 6 | It is as if there is an element of delayed action with centesimals and we have no means of knowing what the final extent of reaction will be without waiting . |
| 7 | It gives criticism , and critical theory , no way of knowing what it is for : no way , that is , — of arguing for one kind of production against another , or of valuing some forms over others . |
| 8 | Alternatively , we could use an electronically-controlled variable-speed turntable , but we have no absolute way of knowing what the correct speed is . |
| 9 | There is also no way of knowing what use the authorities will make of the information if and when the VAN team does give them a warning that another Richter-7 earthquake is due in 7 or 11 hours time . |
| 10 | The person in doubt can choose , but his choice must be made in the full light of knowing what he is doing — disbelieving , not doubting . |
| 11 | ’ For the Hebrew , to know the time was not a matter of knowing the date , it was a matter of knowing what kind of time it might be . |
| 12 | People know where I am , on hearing me say ‘ Here ’ , not in virtue of knowing what I mean , but in virtue of being able to locate sounds . |
| 13 | You had no way of knowing what it would be like and she may change one day . " |
| 14 | Mr. Collins said that any person whose interest are directly affected by a decision of a body acting in the public domain must ordinarily be given the opportunity of knowing what is alleged against him and of making representations to the decision taker . |
| 15 | If , as I think , significance should only be attached to the clear statements made by a minister or other promoter of the Bill , the difficulty of knowing what weight to attach to such statements is not overwhelming . |
| 16 | ‘ On his terms , no back-up , no weapon , no way of knowing what he 's got planned ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I said , ‘ So you 're going there with no back-up , no weapon , no way of knowing what he 'll do ’ — something like that . ’ |
| 18 | There was no way of knowing what . |
| 19 | Despite the difficulties of knowing what to count when the concept of the variable is applied to syntactic work , a large number of quantitative studies of syntactic variation are reported in the literature . |
| 20 | Then there is the whole business of knowing what you are expected to note down and what is intended as a joke , a recycling , or a side issue . |
| 21 | He gloried in the cunningness of it , the feeling of having outwitted the others , of knowing what they did not ; that he was out and away and they were back there where he 'd left them , ignorantly worrying where he was , searching ; wondering . |
| 22 | Only several weeks later , as she lay stifling in her cabin on a filthy steamer from Trebizond , did she reflect that the Kurd , in the whole time he had been with them , had executed Miss Fergusson 's commands with punctiliousness and honour ; further , that she had no means of knowing what had passed between the two of them that last night in the cave . |
| 23 | I had no means of knowing what sort of line I had kept on my cross-country stumble , but it had been NNE as near as I could make it . |
| 24 | This can be difficult because the consumer has no means of knowing what goes on ( or went on ) in the factory . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've no way of knowing what she must bear , we 've no burdens like hers . ’ |
| 26 | She had been surprised in the end that her daughter had agreed to come , she had been so arbitrary and changeable lately , and there had been no way of knowing what would please her , and what bring out her bitter scornful sneer . |
| 27 | I did not succeed in evading the notice of either of them as they had the advantage of knowing what would come next . |
| 28 | Yet , this is not an argument against quantification per se , only against its premature use in advance of knowing what the mathematical properties of the phenomena of social life might be . |
| 29 | So erm I mean the justification for this kind of course I would claim is ultimately to try and make people more realistic about what is possible and er the , because th th the advantage of knowing what 's possible is you can avoid impossible experiments that ultimately result in disaster for everyone . |
| 30 | If we ask the acoustic front end to leave some of the labelling to lexical access it will do so with a vengeance since it has no way of knowing what dilemmas need resolving at the lexical level . |