Example sentences of "they [verb] what it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men can not breastfeed babies , nor can they experience what it is like to have carried a child , however much their partners may have encouraged them to feel the moving infant inside the belly . |
| 2 | Engineering recruits are required to show that they know what it is to be exposed to the hard world of reality by gaining direct experience in day-to-day aviation practice . |
| 3 | He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it . |
| 4 | Right , I think I know what it is and there 's a forest of hands erm they know what it is . |
| 5 | He says ; Every child has had some training and they show me that they know what it is all about and at the end of the day they have saved a life . |
| 6 | They become homophobic long before they understand what it is they fear . ’ |
| 7 | Always ask yourself ‘ Do they say what it is you are trying to make clear to the student ? ’ |