Example sentences of "[conj] we know how " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is almost true to say that we know how the genetic program determines the shape of a ribosome . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But with any luck it will take them some time to realise that we know how to play it better than they do . ’ |
| 4 | If , as I have argued , it is normal and typical of human beings to have basic impulses to assist other creatures in distress , to find them appealing to view , and in some cases to enjoy their close proximity ( infants reach out naturally towards a puppy but get agitated by wasps or beetles ) , it does not follow that we know how to treat them . |
| 5 | No , but it means , it means that we know how we 've got to gear up |
| 6 | and computer science I mean , that 's where the answers all come , I 'm quite sure , I 'm just sceptical , that we know how much about it . |
| 7 | Assuming that we know how the phonemes of a particular word would be realised when the word was pronounced in isolation , when we find a phoneme realised differently as a result of being near some other phoneme belonging to a neighbouring word we call this an instance of assimilation . |
| 8 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 9 | The short answer to this question is that we do not know how homoeopathic remedies work any more than we know how the majority of orthodox pharmaceuticals work . |
| 10 | Dr Mortimer cleverly noted the cigar ash , so we know how long Sir Charles stood there . |
| 11 | We mark the bats , so we know how many there are . |
| 12 | Once we know how much risk people are willing to accept , we can help them pick the ideal scheme . ’ |
| 13 | We have seen the future and we know how it will work . |
| 14 | But a defiant Wilkinson said : ‘ We have had a few days of mourning after the European Cup defeat , but this match gives us another route back into Europe and we know how important it is to stay on it . ’ |
| 15 | We do not want to hurt you , but as you can see , we have our guns and we know how to shoot . |
| 16 | And we know how many there are in the age band we can say we 're penetrating to a degree of |
| 17 | We do n't like hurting people 's feelings , and we know how fragile the male ego is . ’ |
| 18 | We can easily evaluate erm what we sell through the magazine because we 've got all the enquiries and we know how much uptake there was and |
| 19 | Alright to go a third of the way round you 'll go one third of and we know how to write of . |
| 20 | Its a sort of signature — you can recognise that particular kind of star — it 's called a sephied variable , and we know how bright that is and so we can use that to get distances to nearby galaxies . |
| 21 | We were a long way from Orange , isolated in the farmhouse , and we knew how unpleasant the next month was going to be depended entirely on the whims of the staff . |
| 22 | And we knew how frightened she was , how disturbed , because Luke told us that — told us fresh from her bed and hardly able to speak for laughter . ’ |
| 23 | Terry hated having to make these tapes and we knew how distressing it was for him . |
| 24 | ‘ Until we know how your son died it is difficult to be sure what is or is not relevant . |
| 25 | This is coming dangerously close to saying that we can not find out how the brain works until we know how the brain works ! |
| 26 | If we knew how it was produced , for example not by moving a pencil round on one end of a taut thread , but along one fixed at both ends , we could conclude that it really is an ellipse and not a circle . |
| 27 | Again , if we knew how the Euclidean curved space-times in the sum over histories behaved at early times , we would know the quantum state of the universe . |
| 28 | If we know how horses communicate , it not only makes it easier for us to understand them and look after them , but it also makes it possible for us to communicate with them more satisfactorily . |
| 29 | If we know how something behaves , we can sometimes guess how it works . |
| 30 | But if we know how many we 're seeing in a , in an age |