Example sentences of "we know [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is recapitulated in brief here in order to focus attention on the variety of possible surface realisations of that type of isomorphic relation we know as textual metaphor . |
| 2 | But it is the Liber Censuum , compiled in the last quarter of the twelfth century and incorporating many of these earlier texts , by the papal chamberlain , Cencio Savelli — later to follow Innocent III as pope — that provides us with most of what we know about papal finance . |
| 3 | We are taught not to focus on the more difficult aspects of what we know about other people . |
| 4 | We know about black people as victims , but not about white people as perpetrators of crimes against black people . |
| 5 | Given the substantial experience that many schools have built up of alternative timetabling structures — through the provision of BTEC courses , for instance , or CPVE , or through modular and cyclical courses under TVEI — it is hard to believe that schools will not take the opportunity of reviewing present practice to reflect more closely what we know about effective learning . |
| 6 | This much we know about Extreme . |
| 7 | If this is what actually happened , it falls in line with what we know about asymmetric use of Creole between parents and children in the community . |
| 8 | Before the generally accepted laws of motion for such a system of particles do not have this property , his assumption is a departure from what we know about physical reality . |
| 9 | It would not be proper to start talking about such matters in their final form until we know about olive oil , sugar and wine and the other products about which there are real issues to be raised . |
| 10 | From what we know of modern witchcraft practices , we can speculate that the stone circles were used for dancing and that this was a method of raising power ( similar to the ‘ cone of power ’ that witches use today ) which could then be stored in the stones to be used when required . |
| 11 | While we know of certain special cases ( the sonnets of Michelangelo to Tommaso Cavalieri , for instance ) , it is now clear that this was not at all customary , and that the imputation of homosexuality in the Renaissance could have as destructive an effect on a man 's life as it has had until recently ( if , indeed , there has been any real change of English attitudes in these supposedly liberal times ) . |
| 12 | Perhaps then , since we know of long-term biological cycles such as these , there are other cycles hidden in nature , beyond the span of single lifetimes , that include the intrinsic ability of living creatures to adapt to environmental conditions presently absent from our planet . |
| 13 | Thus , the first book we know of printed in Norwich was in Dutch , for the benefit of the refugees who had fled there from the persecutions of the Duke of Alva in the Netherlands . |
| 14 | What we know of other people is learned in a similar manner . |
| 15 | We know of other stars whose brightness changes periodically , over a timespan of hours , weeks or years . |
| 16 | We are inclined to think they are pretty typical , given our less detailed work at other football grounds and what we know of other groups of schoolchildren . |
| 17 | There is certainly a great deal to substantiate this distinction in what we know of early Greek thought … |
| 18 | The ritual imagery of the Ring of Minos is nevertheless consistent with what we know of Minoan religious practices and it does offer some additional support for the idea of a sea-shore cult involving both fixed shrines built on the land and portable shrines ferried coastwise by priestesses . |
| 19 | But in fact we know of existing animals with a whole range of light-sensitive organs , from those which can merely detect whether the animal is in the light or the dark , through organs capable of detecting the direction of the incident light , up to proper image-forming eyes . |
| 20 | The purpose is to compare what we know of spoken language interpreting and its effectiveness with developing awareness of the needs of deaf and hearing people in using BSL . |
| 21 | We know of innumerable kinds of things that could not possibly be the answer to our question ; we know , then , what God is not , but nothing at all of what God is . |
| 22 | But from what we know of local practices It would seem that she must have been crucified Very near an ant-hill . |
| 23 | The story of Godric , and all that we know of medieval commerce and transport , suggests that a merchant needed to enjoy adventure and risk for its own sake . |
| 24 | In virtually equating doubt and unbelief they make doubt the opposite of faith in a way that is true neither to the Bible nor to what we know of human knowledge . |
| 25 | The same principle obtains if a man permits his personal belief to derange dramatically the laws of probability and what we know of human nature . |
| 26 | Of course , it is natural to examine a text in the light of what we know of ambient domains — its author , the period in which it was written , and so on — and to regard it as exemplifying or representing something of more general interest . |
| 27 | To them also , and particularly to Du Caurroy , we owe almost all we know of French instrumental ensemble music of the period . |
| 28 | From what we know of primitive races it is highly probable that the incentive for producing these paintings was magical , the object being to fix in paint on the wall or ceiling of a cave an event — usually the slaying of an animal — which it was hoped would be effected in the future elsewhere . |
| 29 | But if replication needs complex machinery , since the only way we know for complex machinery ultimately to come into existence is cumulative selection , we have a problem . |
| 30 | The only thing we know for sure is that shit happens . |