Example sentences of "it known that " in BNC.

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1 However , these particular instances do not meet the general proposition that if the husband and wife have drifted apart , and the woman has made it known that she no longer wants to have sex with her husband , it is wrong that the husband who has sex with her without her consent is exempt from conviction for rape .
2 Fleet diesel sales grew by 15.6 per cent last year , and Brookman naturally wants it known that Peugeot picked up the lion 's share .
3 This occurs when a politician , perhaps so senior that he is notionally responsible for the agency itself , makes it known that he would be very pleased if some particularly sensitive and hazardous intelligence coup could be attained , usually in order to enhance domestic political popularity .
4 Propaganda by itself was insufficient ; they must involve themselves in social agitation and make it known that the republicans were involved :
5 He was big and burly , and is n't it known that all big and burly men are … gentle giants .
6 She patches Max up and makes it known that she desperately needs his medical expertise .
7 She has the whip-hand for the first time since the cock-up over the separation when they had to apologise for making it known that the knives were out for the Duchess .
8 Be it known that this unique building was erected in the reign of our good Queen Victoria and in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty three at Eardisley in the county of Hereford .
9 ‘ Be it known , ’ declared the paraplegic , who had been paralysed irreparably in some nerve-eating attack by aliens , ‘ Õbe it known that some precious organs of the Venerable Dorn have been lost to us utterly during the vast lapse of time .
10 ‘ Whosoever would have it known that he is not of the common herd ’ , suggested Clifford Howard , ‘ develops a spleen against the Hollywood movies . ’
11 I must stick with the composers and make it known that I am willing to perform these new works anywhere .
12 Nurses are invited to make it known that for one reason or another they may encounter difficulties in attending for work as scheduled .
13 Some of them very negative , and how much they hated doing what they 'd been made to do er , and others very surprisingly made it known that they had thoroughly enjoyed it .
14 But when he had finished eating he seemed to want it known that he was not of the company .
15 When it came to the line ‘ … we wo n't have it known that we own a telephone ’ , tears coursed down Babs Osborne 's cheeks .
16 How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ?
17 With goods having only one normal use the mere fact of the purchase will , by implication , make it known that this is what the buyer wants them for , e. g. a hot-water bottle , as in Priest v.
18 Since February 1989 the Iranian President , Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , had made it known that he would be working toward the release of all hostages in the Middle East .
19 Taylor had consistently made it known that he would not agree to a ceasefire until Doe had resigned and left the country .
20 At the same time the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front parties , all of which supported the National Front coalition from the " outside " , made it known that they strongly disapproved of Chauthala 's reappointment .
21 Houphouët-Boigny had previously made it known that , if elected , this would be his last term of office , but gave no indication as to a possible successor .
22 During his visit Kerrey made it known that he was campaigning for the lifting of the US economic embargo against the SOC and for increased investment and aid by US non-governmental organizations .
23 During the course of the visit it was reported that US Secretary of State James Baker had made it known that the USA rejected recent suggestions that it should alter its deployment of nuclear weapons currently sited in South Korea as an inducement to North Korea to allow international inspection .
24 The PLO quickly dispatched delegations to Cairo , Amman and Damascus and made it known that it would not disrupt the process .
25 A group of so-called " ethical ministers " , led by Economy Minister Marcilio Marques Moreira and including Justice Minister Célio Borja and Bornhausen , made it known that they had only signed this " pact " in order to ensure the governability of the country , and not out of loyalty to Collor .
26 In the absence of a new constitution , however , this was still not permitted , and Fujimori subsequently made it known that Gúzman would be sentenced to perpetual imprisonment on Oct. 17 by a military court ; this sentence , he said , would be confirmed by the Supreme Military Justice Council on Oct. 27 .
27 All he had to do then was to make it known that he had promised to leave Laura alone so that she could have a rest in peace , to make an excuse about paying a brief visit to the Gents , to go up to his room — probably via the guest-lift — to stick his hand inside the room and grab the handbag , to take out the jewel before dumping the handbag , and then … ’
28 Being such an " odd bod " he was the butt of many who took the opportunity to make it known that he was different from us , and whether we thought we would in time change him was something that was a hope — happily a fond hope .
29 The terrorists had made it known that tourists would be a target , but the Foreign Office decided not to issue a general warning to British travellers .
30 If you make it known that there 's stuff like that going on , if you get a band like that you can always just
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