Example sentences of "it [adv] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did the BBC believe that it alone knew what was good for the audience , its pretence of impartiality was bogus and it absorbed and suffocated with banalities all differences of opinion : |
| 2 | No one teaches a child to walk , climb , shout , talk , play or to manipulate grown-ups ; it just knows . |
| 3 | Did it not know the truth ? |
| 4 | Well , would it not know where that is |
| 5 | The human mind , however , has its own limitations , being able to think only in terms of what it already knows , and there is no reason to suppose that the concept of hell and damnation is any more valid than that of angels floating on fluffy white clouds . |
| 6 | For instance , a car manufacturer who wished to find out about UK attitudes towards diesel engines might research only those strata from which it already knows that it derives ( say ) 80% of its sales . |
| 7 | The problem can be partially overcome if the bat beams the sound by means of the equivalent of a megaphone , but only if it already knows the direction of the target . |
| 8 | I do n't need to read it through to know that there will be no mystification here , no hint of distress or depression , no trace of weariness or unusual hair colour , no premonition of ruptured aorta or broken ribs . |
| 9 | Nor was it generally known that some newspapers had declined to accept such advertising on ethical grounds . |
| 10 | But , it also knew that no politician in the run-up to an election would allow himself to be associated in any way with organisations or groups tainted with crime or violence . |
| 11 | The industrial mass was then a drilled mass and what it also knew was that to survive you had to take no chances : the best thing to say was nothing . |
| 12 | Just as it dislikes the thought of securitising its mortgage assets — ‘ why give away margin ? ’ asks Jon Foulds , its chairman since 1990 — so it also knows that underwriting the insurance it sells would eventually be more profitable than taking commissions from Standard Life . |
| 13 | ‘ Be it also known that mutation can twist the rune-signs written in gene-seed . |
| 14 | Perhaps the murkiest issue of all — certainly an issue never addressed by the Bush administration — is why the US , after paying Noriega $1.2 million during the 1980s , when it clearly knew that Panama — headquarters for the formidable US Army Southern Command ( USASC ) that monitors all events in Central and Latin America — was a conduit for drugs , turned so suddenly and harshly against Noriega . |
| 15 | I opened it out knowing straight off that I 'd never get it re-folded properly , and found Blackberry Hill . |
| 16 | The big body pottered on , with slow competence : yes , it really knows its stuff . |
| 17 | The teaching body in the university , so far as it has not joined ‘ The Thing ’ , has always preferred to accept the philosophy of ‘ The Thing ’ rather than reassert what it well knew was the requisite of any academic society . |
| 18 | Priestley supported them and made it well known , so much so that he was asked not to attend the dinner — just in case . |
| 19 | It even knew which land was mine so I need n't even have guided it there . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it made it easier knowing that I only had myself to blame . |
| 21 | So I must ask you : Will you come to Scone and make it publicly known that this kingdom is your prime care ? |
| 22 | But also the database is passive , it never knows which client is going to communicate with it next . |