Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [pron] [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Do n't you know that there is n't a bus till dawn ? ’ he rasped .
2 There 's maybe not enough folk knew it because I do n't know that there 's very many fairies around .
3 Right , now there 's one , we 've made a decision to defer consideration of this report , but because both Mr and Mrs had indicated they wanted to speak before I took the vote , I 'm prepared to take the speeches , but I do n't know that there 's very much of a motion that can legally be moved .
4 She may know that she is not going to recover from the blow of widowhood any sooner than other women do , many of whom at least have a large legacy of happy memories upon which to draw in the years ahead of them .
5 A time will come when you will know that she is no longer saying to herself , ‘ If I ca n't have him , I do n't want anything ’ .
6 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 .
7 But do you know that it 's actually saved you from losing any of these employees .
8 I do n't know that it 's terribly clean .
9 Caspar , genuinely appalled , said , ‘ But do n't you know that it 's almost the most dangerous place in the whole of Ireland ? ’
10 You do n't know that it 's there but I do .
11 erm I think I do n't know that it 's so much class , I think it 's just this image of girls do this and or women do that and men do the other .
12 When you if if you think about a country of song you might think of Wales , but anybody visiting Ireland will know that it 's really Ireland 's got to be a country of song because if you go there you 've got to sing .
13 Stavanger has a considerable holding of Ingard stock , but he must know that it is largely worthless .
14 But she must know that it is n't clever to be asked to leave a country while on assignment .
15 Anyone who has been instrumental in this transformation of another person 's life through the impact of the Word of God and the Spirit of God will know that it is not his own doing .
16 He should know that it is not the Government who take action in these matters , but the Attorney-General .
17 But how do we know that it is vocationally advantageous to study history or to put it the other way round , that to study history is not vocationally disadvantageous ?
18 I am sure this happens , but I do n't know that it is any more so than for most other serious books , including the Bible and Shakespeare .
19 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 .
20 Do you know that it is far better to train by reward than by punishment ?
21 ‘ You are an apprentice historian and therefore should know that it is only in this century that this attempt to sanitise death has stricken our race .
22 We do n't know if Fred Day 's claim is true ; we do know that he 's not alone in believing it to be .
23 His breathing is laboured in that heavy way which so often heralds the end , and as you grip his hand to let him know that he is not alone , you try to love him as the Lord himself would do .
24 Richard 's opening soliloquy ( which is also the opening text of the entire play ) must count as the clearest ‘ policy ’ statement of the tragedy principle in representation : Before this , Richard has let us know that he is not happy with the non-warring state of affairs and is set to provide destruction .
25 The male garden spider Araneus diadematus will vibrate a strand of the female 's web as he approaches her , to let her know that he is not just another small insect caught in the web .
26 You will not know that he is really er here in a commercial way .
27 Hence the importance of the residential and extracurricular activity — above all occasions and activities in which the teenager can know that someone is unobtrusively and undemandingly interested in them .
28 No-one with even a passing knowledge of tax would doubt that it is now one of the most complex areas of an accountant 's work .
29 No one can doubt that it is far better to aim to prevent job problems arising than to try to cure them by means of a law suit .
30 Even this affects church life , as I shall show , but we must recognise that it is not only rank hedonism that flourishes under private banners .
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