Example sentences of "[adv] know [that] it " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I have been in tennis long enough to know that it can .
2 Kate felt inordinately pleased at his offer , even though she was astute enough to know that it came from a desire for any company , rather than hers specifically .
3 I have been in the House long enough to know that it is not appropriate for me to comment on evidence given to a Select Committee until that Committee has reported .
4 She did n't know very much about romance , to be sure , just enough to know that it seemed to be a force that did not like to be tamed and squeezed into the orderly compartments of people 's lives .
5 ‘ I only know that it 's the green stuff that comes from China . ’
6 I only know that it was remarkable that he could react so swiftly and swoop down round the rabbit 's ears .
7 I only know that it was years ago and that I was not , as I am now , a regular client .
8 ‘ I do n't know why you of all people make my pulses race , my body respond ; I only know that it happens .
9 Restaurateurs obviously know that it 's not in their best interests to poison people : however , seemingly inaccessible places can harbour dirt and discarded food scraps , which in turn encourage rodents , cockroaches and other pests .
10 The administration has long known that it faces a bloody fight with conservative insurers and physicians and their hangers-on .
11 The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans .
12 This critic apparently knows that it is a birthright of every English person to enter a cathedral in winter and hear the sound of voices , rendered seraphic by the spacious acoustic , singing to almost nobody .
13 The argument goes that if an issue has been over-subscribed , people who come in late already know that it has been a success and are therefore cutting down their risk .
14 It 's being it is being prescribed t for huge numbers of people , it 's being promoted as a very safe drug , it 's a very profitable drug , and we already know that it causes a very large number of quite serious side effects .
15 I just know that it
16 However , it soon emerged that the DES had different ideas on the management of public sector higher education and by the spring of 1981 it had become generally known that it favoured the virtual cutting of the link between the local authorities and the polytechnics and the colleges and institutes of higher education substantially involved in offering advanced further education .
17 ‘ Why — because , though at any other time I could perhaps let my feelings have their head , this time , for a reason I simply was n't seeing then , I just knew that it could not be like that with you . ’
18 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 .
19 Suppose that I claimed yesterday to know that it would rain in the afternoon , on the normal grounds ( weather forecast , gathering clouds , etc. ) , but that it turns out that I was wrong .
20 She has always known that it 's the fans who count . ’
21 She 'd always known that it was n't her sort of outfit !
22 I 've always known that it would be wrong , almost criminal of me to take advantage of such innocence … ’
23 ‘ I think I always knew that it would come out one day .
24 He felt her grow rigid at his touch , made it so light that she hardly knew that it was there .
25 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 ?
26 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 .
27 The hon. Gentleman must also know that it depends how one selects one 's facts and which surveys one looks at .
28 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 .
29 But they also know that it need not achieve the sort of certainty that leads theologians to drive wedges between faith and reason , or faith and history , in a desperate attempt to achieve a level of conviction that is impossible in what they see as a hostile rather than a mature scientific environment .
30 ‘ I know canon law and I also know that it rests on the justice of God .
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