Example sentences of "[noun pl] we know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the minstrel songs of the tenth and eleventh centuries we know exceedingly little . |
| 2 | The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers do describe a number of fruit fools , fools made from gooseberries , raspberries , strawberries , redcurrants , apples , mulberries , apricots , even from fresh figs ; but few of these dishes turn out to be the simple cream-enriched purées we know today . |
| 3 | Eric of Mallion , which forms a connection between those early pathfinders and the dogs we know better by virtue of their being crowned as champions . |
| 4 | Economically , the rise of capitalism , the industrial revolution , the appearance of the social classes we know today , and the phenomenon of urbanisation have transformed the pattern of human life almost beyond recognition , bringing about the consumer society with its practical and all-pervasive materialism which so dominates life in the affluent west . |
| 5 | In performing calculations we know exactly what to do and the answers fit nature like a glove . |
| 6 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 7 | They had little in common with the apples we know today . |
| 8 | Up to the seventeenth century the wines produced in Champagne were not the sparkling , brilliant white wines we know today : they were still wines , or vins tranquils . |
| 9 | Going in front of a gay audience to say all the things we know already is stupid . |
| 10 | Doing so requires great skill , and an integrated and wholly dedicated application of the techniques we know separately as physiotherapy , occupational therapy , educational psychology , speech therapy and teaching . |
| 11 | But because of natural bodies we know not the construction , but seek it from the effects , there lies no demonstration of what the causes be we seek for , but only of what they may be . |
| 12 | That led to the Royal arms we know today — England or Scotland in the first and fourth quarters , Ireland in the third quarter and Scotland or England in the second . |
| 13 | We sat round the piano with the candles in front of our music stands and played one of the trios we know best . |
| 14 | Yet the plain fact is that this number of children are dying every day — dying from diseases we know how to cure . |
| 15 | Of the place of women among the artisans and peasants we know almost nothing . |
| 16 | The last years of Queen Victoria 's reign and the beginning of the Edwardian era saw the rise to fame and prosperity of the great London hotels we know to-day ; the Savoy , the Ritz , the Carlton , the Berkeley , Claridges ( even then known as " the home of kings " ) , the Piccadilly , the Hyde Park and — the only one which has since disappeared — the Cecil . |
| 17 | The dogs that came with the Romans probably mated with the indigenous population , helping to form many of the breeds we know today . |
| 18 | Of the men who actually dug the canals we know less . |
| 19 | All the 30-something women we knew then seemed about the limit beyond which you went into suits and Burberry raincoats . |
| 20 | They were more akin to the machine politicians we know today than to the noble coalition builders and power-brokers who preceded them . |