Example sentences of "[conj] we know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we know intellectually that the status quo can not be maintained for ever , we feel profoundly disturbed when irreversible change actually happens . |
| 2 | Warfare provides one , although we know very little of the period . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But one thing is clear : although we know so little about it , this was a major crisis . |
| 6 | Circumnavigators , explorers , soldiers , sailors , merchants and government officials of past centuries travelled to draw the map of the world that we know today . |
| 7 | The oxygen they produced accumulated over the millennia to form the kind of oxygen-rich atmosphere that we know today . |
| 8 | The first volcanoes to appear on the surface of the cooling planet erupted on a far greater scale than any that we know today , building entire mountain ranges of lava and ash . |
| 9 | The oldest pieces of amber we have date from a hundred million years ago , a very long time after the conifers and the flying insects first appeared , but they contain a huge range of creatures , including representatives of all the major insect groups that we know today . |
| 10 | Women , and men for that matter , had no sources to call upon for improvement of their looks other than plants , and the vast cosmetic industry that we know today has replaced what was probably just as complicated a business two or three thousand years ago , given the great number of plants that have cosmetic application . |
| 11 | That er lived in this house and they were the the real grass roots of the old Labour Party , the real socialists , not like the ones that we know today that only pay lip service to it . |
| 12 | They evolved further , and eventually perfected the DNA code that we know today . |
| 13 | That wider European Community will be a different Community from the one that we know today . |
| 14 | The real problem is , as the Carnegie Foundation has realized since establishing the Ageing Society Project of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1982 ( Pifer and Bronte , 1986 ) , that we know surprisingly little about what happens to a society and its economy when its age structure changes significantly . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The vehicles that we know best are individual bodies like our own . |
| 17 | The entrance charges also ensure that we know exactly how many people visit these Gardens . |
| 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 | That we know so much today is due to the dedication and persistence of Hedwige Boesch-Achermann and zoologist Christophe Boesch . |
| 20 | These two men went directly to the site to place on record the facts of the find and it is from them that we know so much of Hailing Man . |
| 21 | ‘ What 's not fair , ’ Cranston interrupted , ‘ is that we know so little about last night . |
| 22 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 23 | ‘ The problem dealing with Iranian or Lebanese Shi'ite terrorists is that we know comparatively little about them . |
| 24 | It is no accident that we know more about the lives of Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe than about the other three writers with whom this book is concerned . |
| 25 | Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , if Satan is the opposite of God it seems to me that we know very much less about him , and yet , his works are rather more evident , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 27 | But Krauss suggests that we know very well what sculpture is : it is a historically bounded category , with its own set of rules , which are not open to very much change : its internal logic is that of the monument , a commemorative representation , which sits in a particular place and ‘ speaks in a symbolic tongue about the meaning or use of that place ’ . |
| 28 | So it 's just not true that we know less about what 's going on than we know about our own beliefs about what 's going on . |
| 29 | For once we feel that we know better than Mozart . |
| 30 | The books are confident that we know better |