Example sentences of "[conj] we know " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to reach a position where we are no longer assailed by doubts and uncertainties , where we know who we really are and where we are going . |
| 2 | That will doubtless be satisfactory news in Canada , and probably in the United Kingdom , where we know , from incontrovertible evidence , that that is the precise name of the tobacco industry 's game . |
| 3 | This book is particularly clever , for although we know the outcome ( de Gaulle was not assassinated ) , we are on the edge of our seats until the very last page . |
| 4 | Warfare provides one , although we know very little of the period . |
| 5 | As a model of gene activation , the mechanism discovered by Jacob and Monod in bacteria again provides a satisfactory prototype , although we know that the changes that occur in eukaryotic cells are different at a molecular level , and far more stable . |
| 6 | Although we know it is important to teach children that the roots of their culture are in the village , and in the preservation of values and the importance of agriculture , if you look at the primary and secondary level , we find that these aspects are not much stressed . |
| 7 | Although we know intellectually that the status quo can not be maintained for ever , we feel profoundly disturbed when irreversible change actually happens . |
| 8 | Although we know that it is easy enough to gain weight or eat unhealthily without indulging in desserts and sweet things , it is usually this ‘ extra ’ which is among the first to go when you are trying to keep to a low-calorie , low-fat regime . |
| 9 | So , although we know that the phenomenology of motion-perception varies under differing conditions , we do not understand why our experience varies as it does . |
| 10 | This is one respect in which we can see regional differences opening up in the kind of support which relatives can give to each other , although we know very little about how these matters are handled in families at the present time . |
| 11 | But one thing is clear : although we know so little about it , this was a major crisis . |
| 12 | Although we know from other sources that Emily Faithfull 's London apprentices and journey-women were in fact paid the full male rate ( though with some amendment of the apprenticeship system ) , it was clear that she and other promoters of the scheme did anticipate that the consequence might be to lower wages in the printing trade . |
| 13 | Although we know them in the UK as mushroom corals , the common name of this species is something of a misnomer . |
| 14 | So although we know the fundamental equations that govern the brain , we are quite unable to use them to predict human behavior . |
| 15 | Although we know nothing of her education , she writes that the Countess was ‘ directed ’ by a mother famed for her furtherance of Protestant and humanist learning , Catharine Bertie , dowager Duchess of Suffolk [ q.v. ] , and we may suppose that more than usual attention was paid to her reading . |
| 16 | Although we know much about how genes work at the microscopic level , less is known about all the intermediate processes through which genes find expression in phenotypic characters at the macroscopic level of the whole animal . |
| 17 | Although we know very little about the tenurial and ownership patterns of these sites , it is likely that some of the inhabitants actually owned land outside the settlement and grew their own crops . |
| 18 | The production of axes from these sites was on a prodigious scale , although we know nothing of how they were traded and distributed all over England and Wales . |
| 19 | That has now been achieved and , although we know that a long road awaits the negotiators , it is refreshing to see the leaders of the Palestinian people at the conference table and to watch their demeanour as they approach the massive problems . |
| 20 | So although we know this today , very few people knew it in nineteen thirteen , and er , nobody knew it before the turn of the century . |
| 21 | Although we know his nickname at college was Pagan , it 's still unlikely that we 'll find out just what Morse 's real first name is tonight . |
| 22 | My husband and I came across these old photos recently and , although we know the names of some of the people , we would like to find out who the other two are . |
| 23 | YOU can do you part to help this project by making known to class members when and where the course is and PLEASE do hold membership drives in your classes , many of you have had excellent results in the past , although we know that others do find it very difficult to ‘ sell ’ membership , but you can still ‘ whip up ’ some enthusiasm if you try . |
| 24 | Operational matters are for the Governor , but I think it is important to bear in mind that although we know that violence was used in the early stages we have no evidence that anyone now still in the prison is in danger and you 've got to ask yourself in those circumstances whether you should risk injury or even death in storming the prison when as far as we know nobody remaining inside is now in danger . |
| 25 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 26 | I felt that the world and everything in it was benign , that Alison was infinitely precious and that Dummett 's argument from value — that we know there is right and wrong — to a transcendent being was certainly sound . |
| 27 | We have made a sound start in 1990 to achieving the degree of co-operation and mutual aid that we know the Government and Public expect to see more in evidence throughout this decade . |
| 28 | For Bataille , the ultimate destination of rational thought is the revelation that we know and can know nothing , beyond the realization that all the towering projections of the human spirit are based on a primary denial of the abyss out of which we were formed . |
| 29 | But if it is not by any application of the resolutio-compositive method that we know that all causation is a matter of motion , how can we be sure that it is ? |
| 30 | It is not part of Locke 's empiricism that we know these things by observation and experience . |