Example sentences of "we know to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any one of us may also apprehend an individual whom we know to be , or whom we have reasonable grounds for suspecting to be , guilty of such an offence as long as it has been committed . |
| 2 | We are clearly never obliged to follow any human direction contrary to what we know to be scriptural or morally right . |
| 3 | We must see how this doubt develops and be careful to presuppose only what we know to be true and to commit ourselves consciously to the consequences of these suppositions . |
| 4 | Consequently , unless we are convinced of the possibility of a reductive account of knowledge , let us not tie our hands by refusing to make use of facts that we know to be true . |
| 5 | Rather , we can characterize particular features of our perceptual apparatus ( which we know to be the source of their reliability ) and ask for an explanation of those features . |
| 6 | Under these circumstances the process we know to be distributed across all of the input/output cell connections appears to be localized in one neuron . |
| 7 | Iago continues in other , more familiar postures , professing love to Othello and Desdemona ( III.iii. 119ff. , 136ff. , 196ff. , 213ff. , 218f. , 225 ) and feigning a sympathy for their sufferings which we know to be a covert expression of his gloating : As Cicero said , there is no more flagrant injustice than ‘ that of the hypocrite who , at the very moment when he is most false , makes it his business to appear virtuous ’ . |
| 8 | Gaseous or diffuse nebulæ , which we know to be stellar birthplaces , are in general rather disappointing binocular objects , though there are a few exceptions such as M42 , the Sword of Orion ( not to be confused with the Sword-Handle in Perseus ) . |
| 9 | The further question arises as to whether the myth is not false to what we know to be the case concerning the origin of humankind . |
| 10 | The judgment we know to be mistaken , the case it supports too drily utilitarian . |
| 11 | This principal asserts that if a knows that p and that p implies q , a also knows that q ; we always know to be true any propositions we know to be the consequences of a proposition we know . |
| 12 | The existential proposition here merely expresses in a general form what we know to be the case in a particular instance , i.e. that the concept man does indeed have an application . |
| 13 | Such a phrase may feature as part of a quotation , or a paraphrase , as in indirect speech ; or it may be used in respect of an object which we know to be fictional , for example in the context of a story or a fairy tale . |
| 14 | Says director Harry Cape : ‘ We will persist in our efforts to get what we know to be right . ’ |
| 15 | We are forced to defend a system we know to be indefensible . |
| 16 | The Conservatives are offering a property poll tax in a desperate effort to avoid what we know to be their imminent electoral slaughter , as we would call it . |
| 17 | There is no point in library staff researching rose varieties for an enquirer , for example , when we can give them the address of the National Rose Society , which we know to be helpful . |
| 18 | That what we know to be true is no longer true . |
| 19 | Whether this was Winston 's idea , or His Majesty 's I do not know , but I so strongly suspect His Majesty who we knew to be one of the best Kings we have ever had . |
| 20 | This time there were initially only five of us , but we began to visit women we knew to be active in their local Christian communities . |
| 21 | Young people whom we knew to be honest , stung as we were by the sufferings of our Fatherland , lived convinced that Cuba 's independence was a Yankee gift and that our denunciations of national oppression were simply ways of serving an idea that they considered to be ‘ anti-Cuban ’ ( ‘ Reflexiones ante un aniversario ’ , Hoy , 29 July 1959 , p. 1 , cited in Farber : 1983 , p. 61 ) . |