Example sentences of "know [subord] it be [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 At fifteen weeks the cub 's too young to be approached so keepers still do n't know if it is male or female .
2 and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea .
3 ‘ I do n't know if it 's confidential or not … ’
4 I do n't know if it 's excellent but
5 She did n't even know if it was casual or formal , for goodness ' sake !
6 Mr McKillen said : ‘ I do n't know if it was genuine or not .
7 I did n't know if it was right or not . ’
8 I do n't know if it was real or not .
9 In spite of the heat she climbed the supposed three hundred and sixty-five steps to the Calvary , losing count around the end of April so did n't know if it was true or not .
10 I come to you to know if it is true that you hold him here in your charge . ’
11 His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days .
12 One of the soldiers wanted to know if it was true that Medoc was preparing for the birth into the world of the monster god-idol , Crom Croich , and an argument sprang up as to whether Medoc and Crom Croich were the most evil and most powerful forces ever to come out of the Dark Ireland , or whether the Erl-King had been worse .
13 And that 's a beamer , and DaSilva is , stifled in the extreme , it 's a no ball , now whether that was because it was a beamer I think , but we do n't know whether it 's overstretched or not as far as footwork was concerned , it brought a run down to square leg anyway , and er DaSilva is now eighteen , total a hundred and twelve for three . .
14 Specifically , that worked best on the song War , where the melody is played over an E riff and then it 's played over a B riff and then over an A , but the melody of the verse never uses a third and so you do n't know whether it 's phrygian or phrygian dominant .
15 One morning I was off up Bambury Lane and John was waiting to catch Paul to come some trust or , I do n't know whether it 's social or what , bought a detached house on Bambury Lane cos there were an uproar .
16 you take the pink one as soon as you get there then then you take another one , I do n't know whether it 's yellow or blue , there 's different coloured ones any way two different types so that 's what you want to do
17 ‘ I do n't know whether it 's true or not but we wanted to do it while he is still in charge . ’
18 I do n't know whether it 's true or not , but I do n't think they give you much medication and whatever , when you go down there .
19 No I do n't know whether it 's true or not I do n't know whether they 're fucking trouble is it sounds like the sort of thing I do , is we parked in the multi storey car park in Guildon .
20 I do n't know whether it was relevant or not but I would , I 'd ask how did you manage to finance these policies , if you 're taking one out every two or three years , you know , obviously increment in salary or something of that nature might be relevant so something that the person was conscious of , they were using their money to buy er s er savings plans .
21 I do n't know whether it was mental or pyschological , but Watford should not have caused the problems they did .
22 There was something I saw , and I do n't know whether it was deliberate or not .
23 Well we do n't know whether it was wrong or not do we ?
24 Well , summer , I do n't know I 'd like to go for about it , whe whether it 's calm or not , you know if it 's nice and calm but
25 And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know .
26 I see something on a hanger and I know whether it 's right or not .
27 Biological functions do n't give a damn about nationality ; your arm works without knowing if it 's French or American .
28 Born , they held it like a long skinned thing and for a moment she stared at it hanging in the air not knowing if it was alive or dead , good or bad , not believing it was over .
29 ‘ Hardly ! ’ she retorted quickly , not knowing if it was true or not .
30 One could not know what an experience was like without knowing whether it was pleasurable or not , but one could know what it was like without recognizing its value , even though this follows necessarily from its being like just what it was .
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