Example sentences of "we know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , we know for certain that this was sometimes not the case . |
| 2 | ‘ We know for a fact that Fintan Butler is an IRB courier , ’ the Major continued . |
| 3 | The only thing we know for sure is that shit happens . |
| 4 | But now we know for sure . |
| 5 | Orr Ewing said ‘ We know for a fact that 20 thieves come here regularly from the north of England , but it is not easy to catch them . |
| 6 | The sooner we know for certain what we believe to be true , the sooner we can mobilise against them . ’ |
| 7 | What we know for sure is is really outlined here . |
| 8 | All that we know for certain about his coronation oath is that he promised to preserve the laws of the realm unimpaired and to do nothing touching the dignity of the crown without first obtaining the consent of his prelates and chief magnates . |
| 9 | In our world of competing newspapers and television , of leaks , press conferences and official communiques , fact-finding commissions are necessary ; and we know for example that there will never be full agreement on what are the facts behind the sinking of the Belgrano or the Rainbow Warrior . |
| 10 | ‘ It is , of course , only a suspicion and I 'm sure you will say nothing until we know for certain . |
| 11 | Even an uncertainty is tangible : " What we know for certain is that this point is uncertain . " |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The one thing we know for certain is that life has arisen once , here on this very planet . |
| 14 | One thing we know for certain about global warming is that — whether fields get drier or damper , whether temperatures soar or only fluctuate — our crops will have to adjust quickly . |
| 15 | ‘ We know for a fact that bombs had been prepared in the past for Portadown but the security presence in the area prevented them from being used here . |
| 16 | We know for a fact that the area was sealed off and that army and rescue services were called to the scene . |
| 17 | We know for a fact if/when Strach is nt playing Macca picks his game up again . |
| 18 | Today we know for better or for worse that cops , like doctors and priests , are merely human . |
| 19 | We know for sure in Kuwait , being so close to the Palestinians , that the Palestinian leadership does not really represent the Palestinian people , and there is , within the leadership , erm qualms — they do n't all agree . |
| 20 | We know for instance that quite often erm pillaged flocks of cows and sheep were driven into the quad as one of the few open spaces within the city walls . |
| 21 | One thing we knew for sure — beyond here was the unknown , and it looked big . |
| 22 | We knew for definite that it was only a two bedroomed flat and that is one of the reasons we went in at the time we did , hoping that everyb e every person in that flat would be asleep . |
| 23 | Any other unusual jobs let us know for the next edition of Environmental Issues . |
| 24 | None of us knew for certain who the informer was . |