Example sentences of "[Wh det] we know " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the other way : you fix the expenditure first , and you hope afterwards ; and if it does n't come off ( which it is unlikely to , if you are gambling on an improbability ) , then the result is the monetisation of debt with the consequences which we know . |
| 2 | If you will help us today , we have a plan of action which we know can work . |
| 3 | Peter Davis , Reed 's chief executive , said : ‘ This offers us a unique opportunity to expand our subscription-based information publishing for the legal market , which we know well and where we are under-represented in the US . ’ |
| 4 | It is , in a memorable phrase from the 1930s , a faraway country of which we know little . |
| 5 | The story demonstrates the urgent need for similar studies to be undertaken in other parts of the world to determine the status of the many other dolphin species about which we know so little . |
| 6 | All we can find out ‘ by the appearances or effects of nature , which we know by sense , [ are ] some ways and means by which they may be , I do not say they are , generated ’ . |
| 7 | He himself , he says , does ‘ not belong to the party that would condemn the common and familiar ways of speaking ’ , according to which we know many things at the level of appearances , such as that I am now seated rather than standing , and that fire appears hot rather than cold . |
| 8 | We have seen that Locke agrees that some things which we know , such as that all numbers are even or odd , could not be learnt directly from experience , and that he explains that he never meant otherwise , for what experience gives us is not knowledge itself , but its materials in the form of ideas . |
| 9 | You 'll love it there : they still have the death penalty , which we know is dear to your heart . |
| 10 | Zaire is one of those faraway countries about which we know very little — but last year its turbulent politics caused panic in the market for one of the world 's key raw materials . |
| 11 | This will give you a better indication of the size and type of property , which we know is often an important factor in choosing a particular holiday . |
| 12 | Indeed their sacred works contain passages that state bluntly that God is completely beyond our understanding and completely unlike anything which we know on earth . |
| 13 | When they compete locally , they do so in the same way as other moral considerations which we know we have to reconcile somehow . |
| 14 | Allan Fromme makes the point that good discipline takes account of the child 's emotional life , which we know much more about today . |
| 15 | SPIRIT The finer feelings , by which we know God … |
| 16 | For instance , sea slugs , a type of mollusc , live in the tidal zones around our coasts and most species are more brightly coloured than the equivalent land slugs which we know so well . |
| 17 | We know they were a contributory factor , but our curiosity is aroused by the hints of maladies of which we know virtually nothing . |
| 18 | As we grow older and closer to the unanswerable questions concerning our own mortality , it 's hardly surprising that most of us cling more strongly to that which we know and become set in our ways . |
| 19 | Furthermore , is it not overwhelmingly likely that there are other factors involved of which we know nothing , or which we simply overlook ? |
| 20 | In the telescope they look like very faint stars , but they have enormous redshifts , indicating that they are retreating from us extremely swiftly and are thus distant — the most distant objects of which we know . |
| 21 | How much more difficult when that old person is of a different race or culture from one 's own , has a lifetime of tradition and experience of which we know nothing and has been subjected to hostile experiences , whether the horror of the Holocaust or consistent denigration by virtue of skin colour ? |
| 22 | We are anxious to express our wholehearted support for the renewal , on a permanent basis , of the Nuclear-Non Proliferation Treaty — an objective which we know is shared by HMG . |
| 23 | Rather , we can characterize particular features of our perceptual apparatus ( which we know to be the source of their reliability ) and ask for an explanation of those features . |
| 24 | The possibilities of observing the communicative interaction of more than one ape is certainly something of a methodological breakthrough but it is a far cry from the use of language , observable in very young children , in which the exchange of information rapidly becomes an end in itself , rather than a means of problem solving , admittedly of a high order , which we know to exist in animals anyway . |
| 25 | There may be subtleties of interaction below the soil surface of which we know little or nothing . |
| 26 | Answer : when it is called Microsoft Windows/NT Advanced Server — Microsoft Corp says that it has invoked the name change so as not to confuse customers since a lot of the functions of the OS/2-based LAN Manager which we know and love are already incorporated into the base operating system and Advanced Server will provide only the extras such as multi-domain management ; coincidentally of course , Microsoft will avoid discouraging any users that were n't particularly enamoured of LAN Manager 's original incarnation . |
| 27 | ‘ This is an attractive industry , which we know well , where Gestetner is the world 's largest independent distributor , marketing office equipment mainly under its own brand names , ’ Inchcape chief executive Charles Mackay said . |
| 28 | Beyond that I believe we can not go , although there are occasionally tantalizing groups of poems on related themes , either brought together by the editor/printer or composed as deliberate variations on a theme , and perhaps copied out on a ‘ sheet ’ of paper , folio size , folded ( which we know was a unit of composition and occasionally payment in Elizabethan poetry and drama ) . |
| 29 | The hypocrite offers the gull a surface falseness which he penetrates to discover ‘ a truth ’ , but which we know is another falseness . |
| 30 | Iago continues in other , more familiar postures , professing love to Othello and Desdemona ( III.iii. 119ff. , 136ff. , 196ff. , 213ff. , 218f. , 225 ) and feigning a sympathy for their sufferings which we know to be a covert expression of his gloating : As Cicero said , there is no more flagrant injustice than ‘ that of the hypocrite who , at the very moment when he is most false , makes it his business to appear virtuous ’ . |