Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] we know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On average I suppose it 's fair to say that they are down here once every three months so we know exactly what they want and how to give it to them . ’ |
| 2 | Women , and men for that matter , had no sources to call upon for improvement of their looks other than plants , and the vast cosmetic industry that we know today has replaced what was probably just as complicated a business two or three thousand years ago , given the great number of plants that have cosmetic application . |
| 3 | It 's a business that is increasingly professional in its approach , because we are also in a business where we have to convince our clients that we know as much about what we do in our companies as they know about theirs . |
| 4 | We have seen the future and we know how it will work . |
| 5 | The oldest pieces of amber we have date from a hundred million years ago , a very long time after the conifers and the flying insects first appeared , but they contain a huge range of creatures , including representatives of all the major insect groups that we know today . |
| 6 | It is no accident that we know more about the lives of Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe than about the other three writers with whom this book is concerned . |
| 7 | We must introduce … another National Service Act for a limited period until we know exactly what is going to happen … |
| 8 | We do not want to hurt you , but as you can see , we have our guns and we know how to shoot . |
| 9 | They evolved further , and eventually perfected the DNA code that we know today . |
| 10 | Women ‘ police ’ other women 's bodies because we know how important our appearance is in a society which objectifies us . |
| 11 | ‘ It is all a bit overwhelming and we are more frightened now than we were at the start because we know so much more about her condition . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | We can not exercise caution unless we know how to interpret such findings in terms of actual conditions , other than those which define the relative validity of these findings . |
| 14 | In many ways , problem solving is just common sense but we know how rare that is ! |
| 15 | A dynamical system — a photon , an atom , what you will — is in a definite state when we know as much about its motion as physics permits . |
| 16 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 17 | Circumnavigators , explorers , soldiers , sailors , merchants and government officials of past centuries travelled to draw the map of the world that we know today . |
| 18 | That is , attempting to provide an account of what a person is talking about is always built on an assumption that we know why that person says what he says . |
| 19 | The vehicles that we know best are individual bodies like our own . |
| 20 | We can easily evaluate erm what we sell through the magazine because we 've got all the enquiries and we know how much uptake there was and |
| 21 | In other words , we identify a particular event as the cause because we know how it could have made the effect happen , not because we know it happened before the effect . |
| 22 | That er lived in this house and they were the the real grass roots of the old Labour Party , the real socialists , not like the ones that we know today that only pay lip service to it . |
| 23 | I do n't think we should say anything to Stephen or Eileen or of course Terry until we know more . |
| 24 | ‘ We can not think in terms of locations until we know more about what kind of attraction is planned . ’ |
| 25 | We know that black elderly people , for example , have very little contact with formal social services but we know far too little about the reasons for this . |
| 26 | Carpet manufacturing in Kilmarnock had already been established for over 150 years when the company as we know today was formed in 19088 . |
| 27 | We are all structural-functionalists today , just as we are all in a way Freudians and Marxists whether we like it or not ; but we must also recognize that we do gain additional insight into the significance of social phenomena when we know where they come from spatially and temporally . |
| 28 | The oxygen they produced accumulated over the millennia to form the kind of oxygen-rich atmosphere that we know today . |
| 29 | Moreover , the fact that we know so much about Mozart 's early years is due entirely to Leopold 's desire to record the events in his son 's life . |
| 30 | However , as Jencks ( 1987 ) has pointed out , intriguing as the adoption studies findings are , they are of no practical interest unless we know why they arise — and at present we do not . |