Example sentences of "[vb infin] [that] it " in BNC.

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1 But Roth must know that it is likely to be no joke to those who are reading his book .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 ‘ Why , no , ma'am , I do n't know that it is the most precious thing of all , if I understand you rightly .
5 I do n't know that it 's for or against that he dotes on his wife .
6 So man 's greatness comes from knowing that he is wretched , for a tree does not know that it is wretched .
7 Little did he know that it was n't a smile , but a grimace of pain .
8 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 ?
9 But educational theorists do at least know that it is possible to do better than this .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 When a sick cat is approached by a dominant one , letting it know that it is in a weak , non-hostile mood .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Little did they know that it was for the pocket of Mr S. Caplan .
16 Do you know that it is far better to train by reward than by punishment ?
17 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 .
18 But she must know that it is n't clever to be asked to leave a country while on assignment .
19 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 .
20 She did not know that it had been spiked with tranquillisers until she woke up some time later .
21 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 ) ) .
22 The collector will know that it is faked up in the style of an earlier period .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Ye of little faith should know that it could be earned but not in a normal working week .
27 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 .
28 Garlic is well-known for its health-giving properties , but did you know that it 's every so easy to grow ?
29 Just another wartime control tower , readers may think , but fans of the famed 1940s bandleader Glenn Miller will know that it was from Twinwoods , Beds , that Miller , then a Major in the USAAF and in charge of the American Band of the AEF , departed in a UC–64 Norseman on December 15 , 1944 for Paris — never to be seen again .
30 How does the bird manage to identify part of the scene as a fish , or as food , in the first place , and how is it thereupon led to take appropriate action ( that is , how does it know that it should dive , irrespective of how steep the dive should be ) ?
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