Example sentences of "[vb pp] to know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was the owner of an empty container in which were things that I have never seen nor wished to know about . |
| 2 | Examples include a driver being stung by bees , having an epileptic fit or loss of control because of a latent defect provided the driver did not and could not reasonably be expected to know of the defect . |
| 3 | B has infringed the patent for the computer chips even if he did not know or could not be expected to know of the patent . |
| 4 | But are they so important that the teachers should not be expected to know about technical and vocational education , about an important part , in other words , of the education service towards which many of their pupils will , in time , be moving ? |
| 5 | While if a user is really looking for a system to support management decisions , how can he be expected to know in advance all the decisions which he will have to take ? |
| 6 | As this was the first time this had happened , how could we be expected to know in advance ? |
| 7 | Literary accomplishment was to be valued : all aspiring gentlemen were expected to know by heart the Gulistan ( The Rose Garden ) and Bustan ( The Orchard ) of Sa'di ; but more important still was grammatical correctness : ‘ In society the mirza should [ always ] try to guard against the shame of committing any mistake in conversation , for such incorrectness in speech is considered a great fault in a gentleman . ’ |
| 8 | At first we considered moving to Devon , which we had come to know during speaking engagements for Mark Bonham-Carter at Torrington and Jeremy Thorpe at Barnstaple , but not seeing anything to our liking , turned our thoughts to our native Scotland . |
| 9 | Or again , it is as though the disorganized and random bursts of photons present in a beam of white light were suddenly all being accelerated and agitated to precisely the same frequency and directed at the same spot — to produce the awesome source of energy that we have come to know as the laser . |
| 10 | From this tiny house had flowed some at least of the immortal words that the world had come to know as The Pickwick Papers . |
| 11 | Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution . |
| 12 | Therefore , it is against that back-cloth , that I respond to these orchestrated criticisms and express my views on the man I have come to know as a friend and a very good colleague . |
| 13 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 14 | Did you yourself come to know about the article in the Telegraph ? |
| 15 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
| 16 | How much should Fairfax be seen to know of Claudia 's love affair with the laibon 's brother , Tepilit ? |
| 17 | All you ever needed to know about twentieth-century art theory |
| 18 | The daemonological laboratories of the Ordo Malleus — its Chamber Theoretical — needed to know about this strange new entity . |
| 19 | There were all sorts of other processes that worked against the idea of a simple queue which managers needed to know about . |
| 20 | Everything you never needed to know about life in the trouser department |
| 21 | It conceded that future teachers needed to know about children 's language development along with their general development . |
| 22 | Quite a few are from the madrigal group , or people Tom 's got to know through it . ’ |
| 23 | He had taken his boys to the river , they had played tennis with some people they had got to know at the boathouse ; he had gone mushrooming in the early morning with the youngest one , whom the lethargy of youth had not yet struck . |
| 24 | In the meantime the scandal had received such widespread publicity that every collector in Moscow and Leningrad had got to know of it , and they were all afraid of having anything to do with me . |
| 25 | But if anyone was n't pulling his weight , Herbert Chapman soon got to know about it . ’ |
| 26 | Nkrumah was told by his friend Ako Adjei ( whom he had got to know in America ) that a new organisation , the UnIted Gold Coast Convention ( UGCC ) , required an organising secretary . |
| 27 | Demanded to know on whose orders . |
| 28 | Dressed sombrely in a black suit splendidly contrasted with the Order of St George , he refused to plead , but persistently demanded to know by what authority a small minority of the House of Commons , without any participation of the House of Lords , could bring him to trial . |
| 29 | In Heseltine 's appointment as Minister of the Environment came as no surprise , the event of Heseltine 's appointment is presented as given ; the reader is assumed to know about it . |
| 30 | She had only wanted to know without seeming to criticize . |