Example sentences of "[prep] which we know " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Beyond them lies that very mysterious region , the centre of the Galaxy , about which we know very little at the moment . |
| 4 | For many of us , prayer in the Holy Spirit is something about which we know very little . |
| 5 | According to the Suda , Simonides of Magnesia sang of a victory by Antiochus III over the Gauls , about which we know nothing — unless it is to be identified with the episode to which II Maccabees refers as a success by eight thousand Babylonian Jews and four thousand Macedonians against Galatian raiders ( 8.20 ) . |
| 6 | An excellent example , for which we know the explicit intention of the inventors , is the London School of Economics coat of arms which has a beaver as key figure . |
| 7 | It is , in a memorable phrase from the 1930s , a faraway country of which we know little . |
| 8 | We know they were a contributory factor , but our curiosity is aroused by the hints of maladies of which we know virtually nothing . |
| 9 | Furthermore , is it not overwhelmingly likely that there are other factors involved of which we know nothing , or which we simply overlook ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | There may be subtleties of interaction below the soil surface of which we know little or nothing . |
| 13 | They are not the only good things , but they are much the best , at least among good things of which we know . |
| 14 | Let us now consider more closely the main positive conclusion Moore reaches by application of his two principles , namely that personal affection and the contemplation of beautiful objects are by far the two most important good things of which we know . |
| 15 | Or rather , he holds that all the great goods of which we know involve consciousness ; there may conceivably be others of which we are ignorant . |
| 16 | These speak , I believe , of some deep , personal experience of which we know nothing . |
| 17 | It is not the case that we name one condition as cause because it is different from others in any respect having to do with the relations of which we know . |
| 18 | If we maintain that cc was a causal circumstance for & , we are maintaining the conditionals of which we know , notably that if cc occurred , then even if certain things of a general class had also occurred , e would still have occurred . |
| 19 | ( b ) Suppose we have a matrix B of which we know the reciprocal |
| 20 | It has been argued that the liberals ' respect for property precluded any satisfaction of land-hungry labourers ( some of whom had seized land in the troubles , a process of which we know nothing ) , and that the abolition of the guilds — again the programme of the eighteenth-century economists — worsened the condition of the small artisan . |
| 21 | The problem of co-ordination of these various professional skills was solved in various ways , of which we know very little just because , it seems , no general and abstract solution was stabilized . |
| 22 | ’ Mala love , ’ I said patiently , ’ Fraxilly is a faraway place of which we know little . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Asking questions to which we know the answer is a useful exercise because it formalises in answer form what we may have only held vaguely before : " Why are we doing this ? " |
| 25 | If they do n't there is a cutoff point at which we know all our production costs all our er administration costs and all commissions we we will have covered . |
| 26 | SPIRIT The finer feelings , by which we know God … |
| 27 | On extended trips to their native land they produced vigorous and fluent drawings and sketches of their dramatic and mountainous country using all their collected expertise to capture and convey that image or Norway by which we know it today . |
| 28 | Secondly , there is ‘ explanatory understanding ’ ( erklärendes Verstehen ) , by which we know that the woodsman is earning a living or the marksman engaged in a vendetta . |
| 29 | But the spirit generates the faith by which we know Christ , and it 's surely that which makes all the difference between the a mere interest in an historical Jesus and our real living faith in our risen conquering son . |