Example sentences of "[that] we know " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | It is not part of Locke 's empiricism that we know these things by observation and experience . |
| 7 | He denies that we know that gold is malleable , because for us there is no ‘ universal certainty ’ about it . |
| 8 | Besides disagreeing with Descartes about the exact constitution of our idea of mind , Locke also disagreed with the claim that we know the real nature of mind . |
| 9 | ‘ Mrs Shakespeare , ’ said the interviewer , ‘ now that we know what the terrorists are asking in return for your son 's life , has your view of the situation changed ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ ft can be either , ’ I replied , ‘ now that we know who we are and where we are with one another . ’ |
| 11 | In the same way we can also define short periods of currency life ; it is from the composition of hoards that we know , for example , that neither of the two principal coinages of late twelfth- and thirteenth-century England , the Short Cross coinage of 1180–1247 and the Long Cross coinage of 1247–79 , survived in circulation after their production had stopped . |
| 12 | It is almost true to say that we know how the genetic program determines the shape of a ribosome . |
| 13 | With so much choice it 's lucky that we know the area so well and can show you all the best things on our trips . |
| 14 | The scenes of Jurassic or Cretaceous landscapes in picture books show dinosaurs swarming over the landscape , giving the impression that we know the whole story . |
| 15 | They believe that reality ‘ points beyond itself ’ in the sort of way that the pile of books points beyond itself , in that we know something must be holding it up or it would fall . |
| 16 | Being out of touch is bad news so we need to be constantly on our guard that we do n't assume that we know what our consumers and clients are thinking or that we know what they want . |
| 17 | Being out of touch is bad news so we need to be constantly on our guard that we do n't assume that we know what our consumers and clients are thinking or that we know what they want . |
| 18 | Moreover , the fact that we know so much about Mozart 's early years is due entirely to Leopold 's desire to record the events in his son 's life . |
| 19 | The vehicles that we know best are individual bodies like our own . |
| 20 | Circumnavigators , explorers , soldiers , sailors , merchants and government officials of past centuries travelled to draw the map of the world that we know today . |
| 21 | To ask the question of whether there is enough presumes that we know what ‘ enough ’ is . |
| 22 | However , there is one other thing that we know about Elsie for sure : she did have a club foot . |
| 23 | The pumice that we know from painful experience in the bathroom consists of material containing over 65 per cent of silica , and there is a general tendency to associate pumice only with acid rocks such as rhyolites . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , it is to these two writers that we owe almost all that we know of El Cid 's life from those who were his contemporaries . |
| 25 | Most of us in the western world are fortunate in that we know where the next meal is coming from . |
| 26 | Tick the film size box above the address panel so that we know which free film size to send you . |
| 27 | ‘ That all that we know of ourselves is an unimportant encrustation over the true seed of the eternal idea which lives inside us , using us as a vehicle merely , which develops in spite of us . |
| 28 | The question seems absurd until you realise that we know not in what manner the spirit survives . |
| 29 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |
| 30 | The media seem unwilling to publish anything that might challenge the certitude with which editors , politicians , judges and others insist that we know how to increase measurable intelligence or that test data ‘ prove ’ , to use The New York Times 's word , that a poor environment causes familial retardation . |