Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , LIFESPAN ABLE will display a warning message and the cursor will remain where it is if : |
| 2 | However , LIFESPAN PMR will display a warning message and the cursor will remain where it is if : |
| 3 | The body would remain where it was . |
| 4 | But Roth must know that it is likely to be no joke to those who are reading his book . |
| 5 | I do n't know the answer , for only the people can give it ; but I do know that it is our duty to ask them . |
| 6 | Little did we know that it would result in one of the most amazing periods of any of our lives — including David 's I 'm sure . |
| 7 | ‘ Why , no , ma'am , I do n't know that it is the most precious thing of all , if I understand you rightly . |
| 8 | I do n't know that it 's for or against that he dotes on his wife . |
| 9 | So man 's greatness comes from knowing that he is wretched , for a tree does not know that it is wretched . |
| 10 | Little did he know that it was n't a smile , but a grimace of pain . |
| 11 | Ask anyone about vitamin C and they will be able to tell you that it is found in oranges — but would they also know that it is in melons and tomatoes ? |
| 12 | But educational theorists do at least know that it is possible to do better than this . |
| 13 | They should also know that it is very important that there must be established in the child 's mind at a very early age a dawning awareness of the fact that for all his life he will be required to submit to control from some source or other . |
| 14 | When a young cat approaches an adult for play , letting it know that it is in a relaxed mood and accepts its subordinate social position . |
| 15 | When a sick cat is approached by a dominant one , letting it know that it is in a weak , non-hostile mood . |
| 16 | This ruling was reviewed , as a point of law , by the Queen 's Bench of the High Court , which decided that a man who publishes a book in circumstances where he must reasonably know that it is obscene commits an offence , even if his motive is pure . |
| 17 | It is natural to walk or run them and anyone who has done this will know that it becomes more of a rhythmic dance when perfectly attuned . |
| 18 | Little did they know that it was for the pocket of Mr S. Caplan . |
| 19 | Do you know that it is far better to train by reward than by punishment ? |
| 20 | With Cutty Ranks rising fast in Shabba 's slipstream — even recording with Home T and Cocoa Tea — Shabba must know that it may be too late to turn back now . |
| 21 | But she must know that it is n't clever to be asked to leave a country while on assignment . |
| 22 | Such a sentence as ‘ He feels sad ’ would be unintelligible without assimilation to my own feelings ; and although ‘ He is sad ’ is interpretable as a dispositional statement about behaviour , in the manner worked out in Ryle 's Concept of mind , someone who did not know that it entails ‘ He feels sad ’ could not be said fully to understand it . |
| 23 | She did not know that it had been spiked with tranquillisers until she woke up some time later . |
| 24 | Before opting , the landlord should know that it covers the whole land and buildings within its curtilage , buildings linked internally or by covered walkways , parades , precincts and other complexes divided into separate units ( Sch 6A , para 3(3) and ( 5 ) ) . |
| 25 | The collector will know that it is faked up in the style of an earlier period . |
| 26 | Those who do routine maintenance and even major repairs themselves will know that it 's no fun lying on your back under the car , trying to release that stubborn sump plug or awkward steering joint . |
| 27 | In reality , the only difference between the two media is that the public knows how newspapers get their stories — though they do n't know that it 's exactly the same way as people in television get them . |
| 28 | When we first experience the desire to write , our writing voice may well be timid , weak , needy and underfed , so we need to feed it , to let the writer-self know that it is significant for us . |
| 29 | Ye of little faith should know that it could be earned but not in a normal working week . |
| 30 | No one knows where HIV started , but we do know that it is spreading fast and nearly every country in the world has people with HIV or AIDS . |