Example sentences of "[noun sg] we know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , there is one murder we know very little about — Vechey 's . |
| 2 | The discovery of a Thomas Barton harpsichords throws fresh light on the scribbled information in the Talbot Manuscript taken from an instrument we know only as ‘ Jenny 's harpsichord ’ The stringing list is almost identical . |
| 3 | I I turn that that the point I made about the the the lack of inquiry because er er in effect we know very little about what went wrong with B C C I and particularly what went wrong with the audit er of B C C I because we have n't had an inquiry er into this country and to what went wrong in that instance . |
| 4 | Sometime between 1806 and 1813 the twisting action we know today as remuage evolved , but it was the angled cut of the holes as much as the twisting motion which provided the key to the solution sought by the widow . |
| 5 | These are n't the morbid denizens of the void we know so well ( from other Penelope Spheeris movies ) , these are no sallow-skinned satanists . |
| 6 | Once established , the pattern could spread all over the body , until it reached the condition we know today . |
| 7 | These terraces grew into the village we know today as Middleton St George , which took its name from the ancient parish in which it was situated . |
| 8 | The railway grapevine was not the sophisticated piece of equipment we know today , and it was several years before I discovered the reason for these ‘ apparitions ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Wood , who retires later this year , said : ‘ The society 's strong financial base will ensure that we are well able to maintain our key objective of remaining an independent financial unit serving the needs of the local community we know so well . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Wood said of the figures : ‘ The society 's strong financial base will ensure that we are well able to maintain our key objective of remaining an independent financial unit serving the needs of the local community we know so well . |
| 11 | To our sorrow we know now that it is disavowed by the spokesmen of this nation today , who publicly and proudly profess not to share it . |
| 12 | ‘ By the very nature of the business we know where we will be at at the end of each year , ’ said the hamper chief . |
| 13 | As the conditions changed to the more temperate climate we know today , so the proportion of reptiles had decreased — but there was no overall trend of the kind that would be implied if the mammals had only come into existence in the later geological periods . |
| 14 | When , in the first Test at Trent Bridge , Gooch and Broad put on 125 for the first wicket the smiles were widening all the time ; when the last wicket fell with just 245 on the board we knew where we really were . |
| 15 | He changed movies from just custard pies and Keystone Cops into the cinema we know today |
| 16 | This name was changed over a period of time to the name we know today , Rottweil . |
| 17 | Of the incidence of poverty and famine we know comparatively little , but we know enough to be sure that both were common . |
| 18 | Is the devil we know better than the devil we do n't know ? |
| 19 | The exact origins of the ferret can only be guesswork , but either descendants of the polecat line or variations on the resultant interbreeding between stoats and polecats may have given us the ferret we know today . |
| 20 | Next morning we know where we are . |
| 21 | In the Store we knew where we were , things worked , everything was exactly as Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) decreed . |
| 22 | Gundulph we know most certainly lived here for a while , for here he could retire with his household to live on tithes collected locally as the manor was allotted to supply his table " ad victum episcopi " as it was styled . |
| 23 | At a time when forces were inexorably at work in Britain itself to produce the bureaucratic form of government we know today , there flourished in the empire a governing ethos which , with its emphasis on character rather than training in its practitioners , its primitive notions of justice , its exaltation of the autonomous agent unhindered by outside control , its demand for loving awe from the governed , was unmistakably the product of an earlier age . |
| 24 | Of her earlier life we know only that she ‘ feared the Lord ’ and ‘ sought ’ him ‘ earnestly ’ . |
| 25 | This residue has been further moved by subsequent erosion and climate , and forms the soil we know today , which does not necessarily reflect the local underlying rock formation . |
| 26 | And the bar on which they stood had evolved from a simple counter or hatch to something approaching the form we know today : in his Encyclopaedia of Cottage , Farm and Villa Architecture of 1833 J C Loudon described the ideal bar ( the place ‘ from which all orders are issued ’ ) as being ‘ of some size ’ , with ‘ commanding views of the front entrance hall and back entrance ’ . |
| 27 | That 's the matter we know about-so far . |
| 28 | The Satan we knew before has not changed but disappeared and a new one has been put in his place . |
| 29 | To think that God can be some further reality beyond the reality we know is simply to have failed to define the reality we know widely enough . |
| 30 | The dog that accompanied the eleventh legion that was to conquer the area we now know as Rottweil in AD 74 would not be recognizable as the breed we know today . |