Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] we know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question seems absurd until you realise that we know not in what manner the spirit survives . |
| 2 | So now we can hear everything they say and we know where they are on the plane ! ’ |
| 3 | So they know where to find and we know where to find all their bits of reports and the like . |
| 4 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |
| 5 | The media seem unwilling to publish anything that might challenge the certitude with which editors , politicians , judges and others insist that we know how to increase measurable intelligence or that test data ‘ prove ’ , to use The New York Times 's word , that a poor environment causes familial retardation . |
| 6 | The entrance charges also ensure that we know exactly how many people visit these Gardens . |
| 7 | If , as I have argued , it is normal and typical of human beings to have basic impulses to assist other creatures in distress , to find them appealing to view , and in some cases to enjoy their close proximity ( infants reach out naturally towards a puppy but get agitated by wasps or beetles ) , it does not follow that we know how to treat them . |
| 8 | Elsie lived but we know very little about her beyond a few basic facts : she married an older man who was rather irascible and treated her badly ; she disappeared in mysterious circumstances when she was about twenty-six ; her body was discovered a year ago on the bed of the filled-in Loch Craig . |
| 9 | And they know and we know where to look for help in finding it . |
| 10 | For once we feel that we know better than Mozart . |
| 11 | While the DUC itself had amassed information and expertise by now to undertake this study itself , it realized that the report would have to be produced from outside the community if it was to have legitimacy or to be seen in any way as neutral : ‘ We in the Committee felt that we knew enough to write the report ourselves but we also felt that it would n't be acceptable to the County Council so we had to get somebody else to do it ’ . |
| 12 | Assuming that we know how the phonemes of a particular word would be realised when the word was pronounced in isolation , when we find a phoneme realised differently as a result of being near some other phoneme belonging to a neighbouring word we call this an instance of assimilation . |
| 13 | But with any luck it will take them some time to realise that we know how to play it better than they do . ’ |
| 14 | It helps if we know where to go for formal approval of decisions , or know who is responsible for what . |
| 15 | No , but it means , it means that we know how we 've got to gear up |
| 16 | It is almost true to say that we know how the genetic program determines the shape of a ribosome . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But Krauss suggests that we know very well what sculpture is : it is a historically bounded category , with its own set of rules , which are not open to very much change : its internal logic is that of the monument , a commemorative representation , which sits in a particular place and ‘ speaks in a symbolic tongue about the meaning or use of that place ’ . |
| 19 | This is coming dangerously close to saying that we can not find out how the brain works until we know how the brain works ! |
| 20 | ‘ But if we 're going to spend the evening together I thought it would help if we knew more about each other 's backgrounds . ’ |