61.  What is impressive is that these distinctions can be made without any prior knowledge of the syntactic and semantic categories of the words involved.

62.  The two pitches of VII, which we had innocently expected to be the crux, were rapidly overcome with the confidence that comes from prior knowledge.

63.  The role of the US embassy was also heavily criticized for withholding the evidence of at least one US military advisor who claimed to have had prior knowledge of the plan to kill the priests.

64.  The various exercises encourage the students to use their prior knowledge in attacking the text, getting the gist, and then going deeper into the meaning.

65.  Japanese for Business & Travel is an introduction to Japanese (the course assumes the pupil has no prior knowledge) and is composed of questions about vocabulary, grammar and culture.

66.  He denied that he had prior knowledge of Ms Sayeed's abduction, but confirmed that the JKNLF leadership was in contact with its "field workers".

67.  In the absence of an express statement, it is uncertain whether the purchaser's prior knowledge is a defence available to the vendor.

68.  It is in everyone's interest that the sale agreement contains an express statement as to whether prior knowledge is a defence or whether prior knowledge will not prejudice the purchaser's ability to claim for breach of warranty if the material fact is not disclosed in the disclosure letter (see clause 13.4 of the standard sale agreementAppendix III).

69.  But Washington said that while it had prior knowledge of the plot hatched by three disaffected officers, it did not actively back it.

70.  Of the 23 respondents (7%) who did not, 21 accepted an invitation to explain their views, and just over half of them (11 respondents) indicated that too much prior knowledge of the subjects was sometimes assumed.