Example sentences of "as they know it " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thus found particularly congenial the work of those anthropologists such as Bachofen , and again Morgan , who saw primitive kinship as almost a total reversal of the family as they knew it . |
| 2 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 3 | Two senior Ross-shire men were ordered to walk the boundary , as they knew it , being sternly warned before they set off : ‘ Mind , your feet are on oath . ’ |
| 4 | During Lloyd George 's premiership , the counterpoint of coalition almost drowned the theme of party , and many Unionists feared for the survival of politics as they knew it . |
| 5 | It was to be made in whole and smashed bricks , the whole bricks to represent the walls of the world — the Berlin Wall , the Walls of Jericho , the Western ( Wailing ) Wall , the Great Wall of China and Hadrian 's Wall — and the smashed bricks to represent the breakdown of Jewish life and status as they knew it . |
| 6 | Painting was to become intellectual , and the painters would depict the world not as they saw it , but as they knew it to be . |
| 7 | The world as they knew it was displayed around and about . |
| 8 | Politics as they know it — the system that has kept them in power for the past 45 years — is being challenged by two younger men from their own party . |