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

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1 At the same time and again harking back to Durkheim , at least in the case of tribal societies we usually know very little of their past through lack of documentary sources , so we can ignore this ‘ conjectural history ’ .
2 We still knew very little about them .
3 We may now be able to observe and record strandings in ever-increasing detail , but we still know very little of what lies behind them .
4 Both national survey data and smaller in-depth studies now enable us to document at least some of the financial effects of care-giving on women , although we still know very little about the consequences for women who begin or continue to give care in their own old age , or about the experiences of Black women carers .
5 In contrast , we still know so little of the ways of life and intelligence of these magnificent creatures .
6 We now know so much more about you !
7 The fact that we now know so much about it proves that he was utterly wrong .
8 We now know too much about child development to allow this kind of testing to be inflicted on our schools , so we must co-operate in developing and using appropriate tests while , at the same time , resisting inappropriate proposals .
9 We now know too that in the later part of that time a form of Greek was widely spoken there .
10 The use of girls above ground increased after 1815 , but the truth is that we really know very little of the actual numbers of women working in mines .
11 Though they were the subjects of much more inquiry than the ‘ respectable ’ working classes ( but in this generation distinctly less so than before 1848 or after 1880 ) , we really know very little about anything except their poverty and squalor .
12 And , indeed , if we look closely at any of the explanations which have been offered , we are forced to admit that we actually know very little beyond the bare statistics of attainment in public examinations or national surveys .
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