Example sentences of "know its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sensed vaguely that he was inferior , as do the majority of those who are on the threshold of the bourgeoisie but who do not know its inner secrets . |
| 2 | Then both the earners and the users of foreign exchange will know its real opportunity cost , and they will adjust their behaviour so as to economize on foreign exchange in the short term and to earn more of it in the long term . |
| 3 | If we knew the initial state of our universe , we would know its entire history . |
| 4 | v. Lowthian the defendants knew of the existence of the contract between the plaintiffs and their co-contractors but they did not know its precise terms and said that they assumed from their experience in other cases that it could be terminated at short notice . |
| 5 | Anyone who imagined that precise experience would know its full intrinsic nature but they might or might not realize that this was a good experience . |
| 6 | To have any meaningful environmental policy with objectives that allow targets to be set , an organisation needs to know its present position and identify the issues to be addressed . |
| 7 | To get a 5% or 10% saving the hotel will need to know its exact electricity consumption pattern and what the overall result of each tariff profile on offer will be . |
| 8 | If you want to know its full name — ’ she grinned ‘ — it 's porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome — otherwise PRRS . |
| 9 | I know its mild , but I feel its particularly |
| 10 | its not how they came into the world of real names to stick with prat names like Beatrice and , I mean I know its old royal and that and I mean fancy going to school in that bloody Henry and William , I mean William 's not too bad |
| 11 | Try to find from the salvage dealer the police station from which he collected the vehicle and enquire if they know its original number from their files . |
| 12 | I know its dreadful |
| 13 | You just do n't do it , you know its anonymous . |
| 14 | If Nathan Cohen — some years older than his wife — had known the dangers of battle as a young lieutenant in the army , then Masha Cohen had known its civilian equivalent , what it was like to have been humiliated , to have lost everything , and to have been forced to flee from one 's country and kindred . |
| 15 | Although the effects of chelation are well known its detailed mechanisms are not . |
| 16 | We can also , in abbreviation , speak of an event as necessitated without identifying or indeed knowing its causal circumstance . |
| 17 | She stiffened as a hand crept up her side , knowing its intended destination . |
| 18 | His ‘ ballistic walking ’ theory predicts the path of the swinging leg as perfectly as one can determine the trajectory of a missile , knowing its physical properties . |
| 19 | It had been saddled up ready for him and as Li Yuan stood there , it turned its head curiously , its large dark eyes meeting the prince 's as if it knew its new owner . |
| 20 | She knew its subterranean power , its ability to command loyalty . |
| 21 | It is permanently sitting there in the sense that , if only you knew its genetic formula , you could instantly find it ; moreover , its neighbours in this special kind of space are the biomorphs that differ from it by only one gene . |
| 22 | Biblioth. , P.L. 28.556 ) , and Origen still knew its Hebrew title , which has come down to us in a corrupt and unintelligible form , Sarbethsabanaiel ( ap . |
| 23 | Perhaps he regards the flag as a suitable prop to emphasise the sentiments of ‘ Glamorous Glue ’ , but he well knows its other connotations . |