Example sentences of "we [verb] know " in BNC.

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31 What we do know is that ADRK will keep a close eye on all matters concerning the breed .
32 What we do know is that the first Rottweiler to be registered with the New Zealand Club was Auslese Montrachet , who was imported from Australia .
33 However , we do know that the first import into Trinidad was Bhaluk Princess Barbella , imported by Mrs Margaret Wattley .
34 What we do know is that , in the United Kingdom , men who reach 60 have a further life expectancy of 16.8 years and women have a further life expectancy of 21.2 years .
35 I would say , incidentally , without elaborating , that this is potentially beneficial to the health of the cows , because we do know that the major problems of ill health in cows are the production diseases associated with very high yields .
36 However , we do know that what children make of television , and how it influences them , is determined to a large extent by what their parents teach them to make of it .
37 The next section therefore attempts to summarize what we do know ; it is derived chiefly from the Earth System Sciences Committee ( ESSC ) ( 1988 ) .
38 We do know that most coal fields began life as swamps about 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period .
39 When we do know what causes whales to beach , we perhaps will have more chance of persuading the stranded ones to return to the safety of deep water .
40 We do know enough , however , to say that it could ; and , although we can lay some of the more romantic if attractive legends to rest , we have to declare that the case is still open .
41 Having said that , we do know that large amounts of lead are harmful .
42 Anyway , we do know that on the day he was murdered you were some distance away from Edinburgh , but it was a good pretext to arrest and detain you should you attempt to complain to your masters in London ! ’
43 Strange as it may seem , we 've lived rather longer than you , we do know what 's — ’
44 But we do know that the most obvious surviving monuments , the stone circles , take that form , and we can at least speculate that they may have performed a similar function .
45 But we do know God is present , if we have accepted his word as the final authority on his character .
46 We do know that , when gripped by a golfer , a club 's behaviour is different from the way it behaves when gripped by a clamp as it is in the standard manufacturers ' tests .
47 We do not know what interest rates were in Israel but we do know that the annual rate of interest in the ancient Near East was very high : in Babylonia and Assyria it was 20–25 per cent for money loans , 33 per cent for loans in kind and frequently more ; in Upper Mesopotamia and Elam rates were higher , reaching 50 per cent for money loans ; in the Ptolemaic period in Egypt rates seem to have been around 12 per cent .
48 And what we do know is often second-hand , usually from Israeli sources .
49 What we do know , however , is that we were due to finalise proposed changes to the Mountaineering Instructors ' Certificate syllabus at the next meeting .
50 But we do know love will out , and despite a script with the credibility of a Jewish pigfarm , everyone 's going to have a brainless Friday-evening time of it getting there .
51 It is not clear why horns and antlers should differ so much in shape , but we do know something about why size varies so markedly .
52 The origins of HIV are uncertain yet one thing we do know is that HIV has the potential to affect everybody worldwide .
53 There are many differing opinions but we do know the following :
54 No one knows where HIV started , but we do know that it is spreading fast and nearly every country in the world has people with HIV or AIDS .
55 We will probably never know the extent of individual suffering endured by many of those 300 Africans , we do know the tragic circumstances of Orton Chirwa 's life .
56 What we do know is that they can have extremely unpleasant effects .
57 What we do know is that much of the three great islands bordering the Java Sea — Sumatra , Java and Borneo — and nearly all of the smaller islands inside the sea itself lie below an altitude of 200 feet .
58 We do know that he could n't have used a beehive .
59 It is concerned with telling you as much about what we do n't yet know as about what we do know .
60 Little is known for certain about his early upbringing or education although we do know that John Howard was criticized for both neglecting him ( because of his many absences ) and for imposing an unduly repressive regime when he was at home .
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