Example sentences of "[noun pl] as we know [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are not violin sonatas as we know them , rather sonatas for piano with violin accompaniment . |
| 2 | Whether or not schools as we know them will exist in the future is uncertain but we can be sure that there will be information and that its importance will grow in social and economic terms . |
| 3 | It therefore bears scant resemblance to human relationships as we know them . |
| 4 | But if I was studying the daisy family here , I 'd be looking at plants from the size of daisies as we know them , to plants the size of trees . |
| 5 | He became a key figure in the early 1970s when the public employment service was modernised and Jobcentres as we know them today were first established . |
| 6 | The idea of Dr Bray 's libraries or something very similar , but for the use of the lay public without any missionary purpose , spread across America backed by Benjamin Franklin and was soon re-exported to England , where it formed the basis of the public libraries as we know them , first as subscription libraries , then as public libraries supported by the rates . |
| 7 | In either case , one could not have atoms as we know them . |
| 8 | We perceive things as we know them to be , not necessarily as they are . |
| 9 | As no vocal chords as we know them are to be found in the larynx , the sounds emitted probably come from the lips of the larynx . |
| 10 | Will it be the organised medical practitioners as we know them today or those who are practising in the area ? |
| 11 | That quantum mechanics as we know it is a biologically induced phenomenon ? |
| 12 | Jukeboxes as we know them today first showed up in the 1940s . |
| 13 | ‘ Moreover , on the basis of the facts and likely consequences as we know them , we have an obligation to make appropriate representations to our legislators . |
| 14 | Within this incredibly thin and fragile veneer lies the entire capacity of this planet to support land-based life forms as we know them , and that includes you and me . |
| 15 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 16 | There is n't much to go on but these are the facts as we know them . |