Example sentences of "we know [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right and what do we know which of the other sides do we know ? |
| 2 | Neither did we know anything of the controversy at high levels over the relative merits of area versus precision bombing , but what we did notice was that during the winter of 1943/44 , morale amongst the aircrews was not exactly at its highest level . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll start with the facts as far as we know them at the moment . ’ |
| 4 | However , as we know them in the modern world , there are virtually no middle classes in 1700 . |
| 5 | Although we know them in the UK as mushroom corals , the common name of this species is something of a misnomer . |
| 6 | However we know nothing of the background of Anna 's marriage which may be a great contributing factor to her eternal unhappiness . |
| 7 | We know nothing about the gearing devices involved , but the associated mathematical calculations may have been contained in a lost treatise of Archimedes On sphere making , that is on modelling the heavens . |
| 8 | Unfortunately we know nothing about the predecessors of Spartokos , nor can archaeology help much , and we can not say whether dynastic troubles in the 450s might have caused shortages on the Athenian grain market ; the seizure of power by the Spartokids is too late to be relevant . |
| 9 | Clovis 's campaigns and ruses against other Frankish rulers should perhaps be seen as power struggles within a small kin-group , and therefore as precursors of the civil wars that were to follow , but we know nothing about the connections between the petty kings of the years prior to 511 . |
| 10 | We know something of the ways in which ‘ huskers ’ and amateur street performers were progressively controlled and eventually almost eliminated from the cities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 11 | We know something about the views of Mr. Bickerstaffe because he gave a substantial interview to the New Statesman and Society recently . |
| 12 | From collections of legal formulae we know something about the local archives of a city , in which wills and other actions were registered , and we find various officials , the defensor , curator , magister militum and other members of the local curia being called upon to open the archives for the registration of new grants , but we have Formularies only from a small number of civitates , and their contents are not often datable , except to the period before the ninth century , when most of them were written down . |
| 13 | Although there were thousands of lesser and hundreds of brown noddies on Cousin in October , it can not be easy to assess the population size , because with no positive ‘ summer season ’ as we know it in the temperate zones , many birds can be found breeding almost throughout the year . |
| 14 | It is true that there is a distinction between art as it is used develop mentally in schools and art as we know it in the world , but for most people is n't art what we knew it as in school ? |
| 15 | The word ‘ vegetable ’ was not used in the sense we know it until the middle of the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | And of course , to start with , we knew nothing about the boat 's history , That , if you will allow the word , is also , for the moment , irrelevant . ’ |
| 17 | UNTIL ten days ago we knew nothing of the Hartlepool Vinegar Incident , and even then we knew nothing much . |
| 18 | ‘ Turned out we knew everybody in the audience as well ! |