Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] we know [adv] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 They evolved further , and eventually perfected the DNA code that we know today .
4 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 .
5 Circumnavigators , explorers , soldiers , sailors , merchants and government officials of past centuries travelled to draw the map of the world that we know today .
6 Well , we did very much so , we went , actually go , went and stayed with erm , with er a chap that we knew really
7 The oxygen they produced accumulated over the millennia to form the kind of oxygen-rich atmosphere that we know today .
8 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 .
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