Example sentences of "we would know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he pulled himself together and said , as they mounted the station steps under the concrete canopy : ‘ Now if we were cops inside the covers of a detective story , Mike , we 'd know for sure that Hatton was killed to stop Pertwee getting married today . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But could n't he even raise a finger so we 'd know he can understand us ? ’ |
| 3 | We 'd know nothing of that damaged ball but for outspoken Allan Lamb . |
| 4 | They 're shit , in Zone 4 they 're not women as we 'd know them , just shit . ’ |
| 5 | If there 'd been the least sign of magical activity we 'd know about it . ’ |
| 6 | Because if we happened , just happened to discover , or even suspect , that our spontaneity was part of their order , we 'd know that we were lost . |
| 7 | So you could have , we 'd know that eight , if you 'd like to check that eight times nine times five |
| 8 | Albert Graf , one of the founders , is generally recognized as being the first breeder of the type we would know today . |
| 9 | If we were told that the interviewer used a tape-recorder , or that he was an expert shorthand writer , then we would know how these word-for-word quotations were made possible . |
| 10 | ‘ An Odets play was awaited like news hot off the press , as though through him we would know what to think of ourselves and our prospects . ’ |
| 11 | Without doing so we would know nothing at all . |
| 12 | I had taken the slabs one course back from the edge of the hole , and Lou had arranged them neatly in order , so we would know what went where . |
| 13 | If , for example , we knew what animals with neocortices could do that species lacking them could n't do we would know something about the cortex without having to ablate it in a single animal . |
| 14 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 15 | Now only some fifteen or twenty years later we would know that both partners in a marriage are likely to have important careers , and may well have decided that neither one of the two should be the ‘ lead operation ’ . |
| 16 | We owe a great deal to Ptolemy ; without him , we would know much less about ancient science than we actually do . |
| 17 | How we would know when the Queen had finished with us . |
| 18 | For if it had , then when those consequences failed we would know exactly where to revise . |
| 19 | I think you will agree that , if we knew about this , we would know the answers to a lot of interesting questions . |
| 20 | ( In the proof stage I nearly cut the last sentence in the book , which was that we would know the mind of God . |
| 21 | However , that is about all we would know . |
| 22 | For example , if we saw the sequence PQZT , we would know that it could not possibly be an English word . |
| 23 | So , if we knew that P was the first letter of a word we would know that the second letter could only come from a small group , and that A , E , I , O , and U are the most likely candidates , H and S are less likely but possible , and F and N very unlikely , but not impossible . |
| 24 | ‘ If we knew that we would know the purpose of our own lives , and mayhap the secret behind life itself , ’ they said . |
| 25 | But de it 's been done deliberately that other contracts extend to end of June because , we knew that by round about mid May we would know what our financial situation was , in that what I understand are termed out-turn figures for the , our pre the previous financial year , will have been erm audited as a result of the end of the financial year . |
| 26 | If we knew the initial state of our universe , we would know its entire history . |
| 27 | Again , if we knew how the Euclidean curved space-times in the sum over histories behaved at early times , we would know the quantum state of the universe . |
| 28 | If it had published the full document as originally written , we would know that there are some real nasties in it . |
| 29 | Recover the Presley hoard and save civilization as we would know it . |
| 30 | If recognition proceeded on a word-by-word basis we would know the beginning and end points of each word , and recognition could indeed take place entirely within the lexicon as these earlier models seem to assume . |