Example sentences of "it know [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It will frequently be necessary for it to know whether the employee was being advised at any material time and , if so , by whom ; of the extent of the advisers ' knowledge of the facts of the employee 's case ; and of the nature of any advice which they may have given to him .
2 What is it to know that human beings vary ?
3 ‘ If a child ca n't see how it 's performing , ’ demanded Mr Stannard , ‘ how 's it to know if it 's doing well or not ?
4 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 .
5 When a sick cat is approached by a dominant one , letting it know that it is in a weak , non-hostile mood .
6 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 ) ?
7 How would it know that it had to lose weight ?
8 Ronald Chalmers 's term of office as vice-chairman had been a year only , he said , and he had made it know that he did not want to be considered for an office-bearer 's position .
9 how does it know if it 's bad for you or not ?
10 Both holders of government stock and dealers in it know that prices fluctuate and that capital losses can be expected as well as capital gains .
11 So , those who do not support hunting will do nothing practical to protect foxes , if they vote for this motion today in that respect it is and I suggest the people who move it know that it is , nothing but sanctimonious twaddle .
12 Well I would think the Council would be delighted to have those details in front of it for us to have a full discussion and to make it known but thank you Councillor for all those details .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Propaganda by itself was insufficient ; they must involve themselves in social agitation and make it known that the republicans were involved :
17 He was big and burly , and is n't it known that all big and burly men are … gentle giants .
18 She patches Max up and makes it known that she desperately needs his medical expertise .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 ‘ 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 .
22 ‘ Whosoever would have it known that he is not of the common herd ’ , suggested Clifford Howard , ‘ develops a spleen against the Hollywood movies . ’
23 I must stick with the composers and make it known that I am willing to perform these new works anywhere .
24 Nurses are invited to make it known that for one reason or another they may encounter difficulties in attending for work as scheduled .
25 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 .
26 But when he had finished eating he seemed to want it known that he was not of the company .
27 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 .
28 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 ?
29 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.
30 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 .
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