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

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1 ‘ But deep down we all know that we are faced today not with realities and images .
2 So we all know that Benn is black and yet at the same time the Guardian can maintain the implicit position : ‘ Black ?
3 So we all know what her successor can look forward to from his party .
4 Aggie mumbled something in her throat ; then , hastily pulling herself up from the couch , she said , ‘ Well , now we all know where we stand , so let's eat .
5 Now we all know about the commercialization of Christmas and the pressure to spend money to give the kids the best , which often means the most expensive !
6 Anthony : So now we all know where everyone lives .
7 Now we all know where we are .
8 Now we all know what the District Council view is .
9 Now we all know that life is n't like that .
10 I do n't think so , really it 's just the opposite problem of what we 've got over here , being submissive now we all know what being being sub submissive yes we let people walk all over us we do n't say yeah we we listen to what everybody else says and therefore the opposite is you 're gon na get aggressive to get what we want .
11 Now we all know that the reason for this inordinate six month delay was that the government could n't be sure of carrying a vote on anything European in the face of hostility from its Maastricht rebels , those the Prime Minister famously dubbed the illegitimate ones .
12 Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn
13 Now we all know that the problem of noise is something which is going to be very high on your agenda in the coming weeks .
14 Now we all know the word recession ; we 've heard of it before , but , but what does it actually mean ?
15 Well we all know from our own history books that fire has been with us for a long long time has n't it ?
16 What er Newstat does though is something quite interesting he says well we all know , well I hope you all know , that there are limits on presidential power and we all know that the president ca n't direct congress , we know the president ca n't appoint anybody without consulting congress , we know the president ca n't control the supreme court , we know all these limitations but nevertheless , leaving that to one side , pushing that to one side , there are major powers here .
17 Erm well we all know what 's going to happen and they sort of give an idea of the plot but it 's only Marlowe who does n't know .
18 Well we all know who uses it do n't we ?
19 I think nowadays we all know , that the flagships of the conservative party , crime is no longer a thing they can fly high .
20 ‘ And did n't we all know you for a darling girl ? ’ he whispered in her ear as his fingers continued to blaze fire across her exposed nape .
21 ‘ And did n't we all know you kissed the blarney stone ? ’ she whispered back .
22 the only battleship I know about is the girl friend go away for about three months at a time and you 'd say of where 's Norman , oh he 's er working and then we all knew he 's working for a he 'd put them in the computer systems right the way throughout the ships
23 And then we all know , that that that er er considerable assets there , which are there , and and and we 're we 're we 're very grateful for them , we are in a very fortunate position .
24 Erm , Local Government and Local Council work is often seen as being very drab and indeed we all know that it 's becoming probably less exciting nowadays with the constraints that there are and what Councils still require er in abundance are characters , people who bring a bit of excitement to Council affairs w i at whatever level and I think that one thing that has is character , sadly missing in so many younger politicians I must say .
25 At least we all know where we are when he 's around .
26 Yet we all know that it goes on — under the counter , as it were .
27 Yet we all know , even if we submit to this approach as a temporary — and perhaps very fruitful — measure , that there is more to using language , and communicating successfully with other people , than being able to produce correct sentences .
28 I 'm just exploiting something else we all know — a slick of lip gloss and a smile are bankable assets .
29 And that is a relatively new phenomenon and the type of warehouse which historically we all knew which was men in brown coats driving forklift trucks is not what it 's about , it 's about er pretty sophisticated labour erm dealing with erm computer systems and electronic retrieval systems and often working in shifts on twenty four hour basis .
30 We , like the Kalam of New Guinea , distinguish jays and crows , or red deer and roes ; but whether the two kinds of native oak in Britain are one species or two is a problem , and certainly we all know that there are more differences between different breeds of dogs than there are between some distinct species of animals .
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