Example sentences of "[verb] [that] we know [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But with any luck it will take them some time to realise that we know how to play it better than they do . ’ |
| 5 | No , but it means , it means that we know how we 've got to gear up |
| 6 | It is almost true to say that we know how the genetic program determines the shape of a ribosome . |