Example sentences of "know to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not yet know to what extent chimps use their potential in the wild . |
| 2 | This is despite the fact that according to the law report the police officers did not know to which specific pits the pickets were travelling and that some of the evidence of violence on which the police officers relied was that which they had gathered from press and television reports . |
| 3 | Since his primary physicians did n't know to what degree his pulmonary disease was indeed perhaps reversible , there was no reason not to comply with Ron ’ s wish . |
| 4 | Often , the manufacturers do not even know to what extent their equipment will stand up to RFI . |
| 5 | I was n't so sure about that : did n't know to what extent she was responsible for his behaviour . |
| 6 | Obviously your personal situation will affect the choices you make but a sound principle to follow was laid down by William Morris who wrote ‘ have nothing in your home which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful ’ . |
| 7 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 8 | Nor do we know to what extent the ‘ Reformation ’ instituted by St Dunstan in the tenth century touched the county at all . |
| 9 | When the Bingham Report recommended a statutory duty for auditors ‘ to report to the Bank any information or opinion which the auditor knows or should reasonably know to be relevant to a bank 's fulfilment of the criteria in Sch 3 of the 1987 [ Banking ] Act ’ ( ie the criteria for being licensed as a bank ) , auditors ' reactions varied from the totally relaxed to the slightly concerned , but no one positively opposed the change . |
| 10 | She received no reply ; nor had she heard a word during the five years that had passed since , and she did n't know to this day if he was alive or dead , and she did n't care . |
| 11 | ‘ I could n't spell , and I still do n't know to this day where a paragraph is meant to go . |
| 12 | We knew he was sick but we did n't know to what extent and he did n't want any sympathy . |
| 13 | Do you know to whom you speak ? |
| 14 | A subordinate must know to which superior he is responsible for a particular aspect of his duties ; |
| 15 | ‘ You can not possibly know to what I am referring . ’ |
| 16 | And I also wondered whether there is a case , I do n't know to what extent the County Council is listening themselves , that whether the case for also submitting our views to the County Council . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you know to what he was referring ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ May I know to whom I have the pleasure … ? ’ |
| 19 | Well , thanks very much , I had n't realized it had gone , I do n't know to be honest , I bet it 's hiding behind there . |
| 20 | Yes , McAllister did know all about pelvises , but had the sense not to spark back at him that , of course , she did know to what he was referring . |
| 21 | I do not know to which local authority the hon. Gentleman is referring , but may I try to explain the context of the debate to him , because it seems to be going straight over the heads of Conservative Members , as was evident in that intervention which I shall now try to answer . |
| 22 | She asked the shopkeeper 's name so that she would know to whom to send her servant . |
| 23 | Erm , I 'm , I do n't know to what degree the specific er cases for development workers erm , and indeed the extra funding for Thamesdown fit into our corporate responsibilities , because we have n't phrased them yet , and we have n't seen the report . |
| 24 | I think I ought to just come in there because , erm , I do n't know to what degree it 's appropriate to discuss erm , the er , some of the background details to the letting of contracts in public , but perhaps it 's alright . |
| 25 | A person who does not have the decency to pay taxes on huge wealth deserves greater condemnation than Sarah , the Duchess of York and in case you do n't know to whom I refer , I mean the Queen . |
| 26 | I do n't know to be honest . |
| 27 | I says well I do n't know to be honest , I says I do n't deal with them , but we were talking about Mercury these cross-routing got one of these systems here |
| 28 | I do , I do n't know to be honest . |
| 29 | Oh heck , well I do n't know to be honest with you , something you 'll be able to play games on |
| 30 | In theory , each of these has the capacity to know to be a medium and even large scale business , and to take on the corporate giants in the course of time . |