Example sentences of "we know how [adj] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do we know how difficult something is ? |
| 2 | We know how long we were travelling and roughly the speed we were going . |
| 3 | But if we know how many we 're seeing in a , in an age |
| 4 | And we know how many there are in the age band we can say we 're penetrating to a degree of |
| 5 | But a defiant Wilkinson said : ‘ We have had a few days of mourning after the European Cup defeat , but this match gives us another route back into Europe and we know how important it is to stay on it . ’ |
| 6 | We know how important it is to educate children , sometimes even those in their late primary school years , about the offending temptations with which they may be faced . |
| 7 | What we tend to do is to brief ourselves very thoroughly on vulnerable spots in the world , and in countries where we already have links and where we 've worked before and we know the background because we , we feel we need that and we monitor very carefully certain events which could lead to a disaster , so that when the disaster does happen , like for instance the Ugandan famine of nineteen seventy-nine to eighty-one , we knew exactly when it was going to happen and we knew exactly where the people were , we knew who was going to be affected , we knew why they were affected , we knew where the food stocks were , we knew how long it was going to take to get so many thousand tonnes of food from A to B erm and how many trucks you would need . |
| 8 | With the national debate over the proposals to privatize the electricity industry gathering steam we knew how important it was that it did n't fade away . |
| 9 | And we knew how frightened she was , how disturbed , because Luke told us that — told us fresh from her bed and hardly able to speak for laughter . ’ |
| 10 | All six horses were broken in , and we felt we knew how intelligent they were from their previous speed of learning new things . |
| 11 | Terry hated having to make these tapes and we knew how distressing it was for him . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think any of us knew how good he was a t the time , or know yet how much we 'll miss him now . ’ |