Example sentences of "we [adv] know " in BNC.

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1 The main problem is that we rarely know what we really want .
2 They flicker into brief existence , sometimes with a name attached , sometimes not ; we rarely know when or how they were acquired , and when or how they died .
3 But if we only know the bell according to those systems we call logic or science , then we can only talk about bells .
4 1 John 3:16 tells us that we only know what love is because ‘ Jesus Christ laid down his life for us ’ .
5 Even if the case is founded on a real-life situation , we only know what happened when the organization tried one solution .
6 If a , b ε Z we say that a is less than b and write unc If we only know ( or care ) that unc we write unc ( b — a is the shorthand notation for the more accurate B + ( -a ) .
7 But it seems all too likely that the 21 married women who applied to rejoin the trade and the union in 1919–20 were war widows , although we only know this for sure of three of them .
8 The two-slit experiment neatly underlines a basic feature of quantum theory , that we only know where things are ( which slit they go through ) if we actually look and see .
9 GUIL : We only know what we 're told , and that 's little enough .
10 We only know that if we treat it in the right way it will enable us to do wonderful things .
11 We know nothing of her months there , and we only know that when she returned it was with the dark inner side of her nature woken , so that she must be kept chained and guarded . ’
12 We only know what our parents tell us . ’
13 In fact , we only know each other because he worked for me — when he was a student . ’
14 Firstly , we only know of the existence of these structures because of the waterlogged nature of the peat in which they are found , since without such conditions they would have rotted away and disappeared .
15 Perhaps a future valid contribution to this field could be made by a combination of experimental simulation of mechanical and chemical compaction in conjunction with the use of computer imagery in volume reconstruction ; at present we only know compaction is extremely effective at reducing both absolute volume and porosity in many sediments .
16 As compared with the more usual situation in which we only know the activity of people over a short period , such data raise some challenging statistical and econometric problems .
17 We only know that they live somewhere in the Wokingham area .
18 And we only know that if it goes on for Monday afternoons for an hour , instead of
19 We only knew for certain that there was something strange afoot when we heard the sounds of a train being marshalled and it started coming towards the hostel , what is more terrifying was that it was coming on a non-existent track !
20 He 'd have gone for the Toraja " star funeral " , too , if we only knew when it was happening .
21 Heaven knows who we used to see at the Fitzroy Street parties : we did n't know half the people that were there : we only knew the family .
22 We only knew we were carriers when Thomas was diagnosed , ’ says Beverley .
23 We read in the papers about the German war in Russia but we only knew one boy who was fighting there : Ada 's brother .
24 I would gladly talk about the ideas of the Carthaginians , if we only knew them .
25 ‘ There may be reasons for his silence , perfectly good reasons if we only knew them .
26 Veined marble , if we only knew ,
27 Montano reacts to this inversion of the truth with the correct response ( assuming it to be true ) which Iago has elicited from him , namely that Othello ought to be told ; at which point Iago demurs , with the pretence of friendship : From that declaration , after the ensuing brawl , Iago has built himself a platform from which he can now act the perfect friend : As we alone know , to get the truth from what Iago says about Cassio one must simply invert everything he says .
28 Guess we kinda know now where he stands on the issue .
29 I like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian , we 've been hearing and seeing and been challenged and accepting Christ as our saviour and over the week in Harlow a number made that response and not only in Harlow and in Earls Court but right across the country and into Europe and into Africa as well , through the , through the life link , men and women who have been challenged into accepting Jesus Christ as their saviour and I 'd like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian now obviously as we perhaps know er , and , and , and God work clearly shows to us that it is not in being religion , somebody well said that religion is man 's attempt to find God but the gospel is God 's method of seeking out and finding men and so just as the same as you 've seen that bridge of life illustration and we try with our planks to get across to God we ca n't make it ,
30 In terms of the user interface , we have an X emulator and controller , XEC as we fondly know it by , erm in order to talk to the user through the users desktop device .
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