Example sentences of "we know it " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do we know it would n't be a place of savagery and high priestesses and the ritual sacrifice of beautiful twelve-year-old boys ? |
| 2 | How do we know it 's stolen ? ’ and warmed to him , grateful that he was willing to defend her , though fearful in case she was asked direct . |
| 3 | How do we know it ? through faith . |
| 4 | When a document says something , how do we know it is telling the truth ? |
| 5 | So how do we know it 's that Sunday ? |
| 6 | How did we know it would be those four particular cars ? |
| 7 | ‘ How do we know it 's not a trap ? ’ |
| 8 | How do we know it was her little girl ? |
| 9 | Now a daft question in a way but how do we know it 's Tower Bridge ? |
| 10 | Do n't we know it . |
| 11 | Vocational training for the actor as we know it has only existed in England for the last eighty years . |
| 12 | However , many of the features of the pub as we know it today were developed during the Georgian period ; at the same time , many Georgian pub buildings — or at least Georgian architectural fittings — still survive today . |
| 13 | In one sense civilisation as we know it had become unhinged . |
| 14 | According to this account , the mind-body distinction as we know it was invented by Descartes . |
| 15 | The constructivist thesis , it is argued , is not relevant because mental representations have not been defined away and replaced by talk of actions : we still have to say how mental life as we know it to be , with the representational character that we naturally give to it , relates to neuronal life . |
| 16 | Perhaps the tennis circuit as we know it today does not suit the British temperament . |
| 17 | We know it well . |
| 18 | ‘ But we know it was n't ice , ’ said Zona Phillips , who founded ‘ Families for Truth about Gander ’ . |
| 19 | A more qualified response might be , yes , in various ways which collectively have shaped musical life as we know it . |
| 20 | It says : ‘ Self-regulation as we know it will end if the executive rules against you . ’ |
| 21 | This Engels emphatically asserted in The Origin when he argues that communism would mean the end of the family as we know it and the liberation of women . |
| 22 | The general consensus among modern anthropologists is that we too should get away from the notion of private property as we know it , when we analyse the economic system of pre-literate peoples , but instead talk of a multiplicity of rights of different types . |
| 23 | It 's the end of life as we know it . |
| 24 | The aim of making the NHS more cost-effective was laudable but the other reforms ‘ may undermine the NHS as we know it ’ . |
| 25 | Moreover , just as natural science as we know it today is , to an important extent , a product of seventeenth-century philosophical ideas , so one of the pillars of the orthodox scientific establishment in England now is the Royal Society . |
| 26 | Many of us know that the three angles of a triangle add up to two right angles , and we know it because we ‘ perceive that equality to two right ones , does necessarily agree to , and is inseparable from the three angles of a triangle ’ . |
| 27 | Much as we love our Church , we know it falls far short of its inheritance of faith . |
| 28 | Apocalyptic expectations , envisaging the end of the world as we know it , have strangely survived abandonment of the belief that all our lives are in the hands of Providence . |
| 29 | ‘ The blood and the sweat and the tears look like washing away the world as we know it . ’ |
| 30 | I take it that they were too realistically magical to exist in the world as we know it . |