Example sentences of "we know [conj] [art] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know that the School is not large enough to become a comprehensive unit itself , and even if it were large enough , we would not wish to change its character completely in that way . |
| 2 | ‘ We know that the semi-final is important , and every one of us wants to win it for the manager , but we have got to approach every game in the same way . |
| 3 | We therefore add a supplement so that we know that the horse is definitely receiving vital micro nutrients ( these are nutrients required in very small quantities ) . |
| 4 | We know that the Palace was still used occasionally for in 1418 , Bishop Yong was here , sitting judicially in his Chapel at Halling giving judgement and punishment to the Prior of the Convent of Rochester , in a dispute over St. Nicholas Church , Rochester . |
| 5 | From the optical properties of this mineral we know that the lens was able to interpret light coming from a direction more or less at right-angles to the lens surface . |
| 6 | Secondly , there is ‘ explanatory understanding ’ ( erklärendes Verstehen ) , by which we know that the woodsman is earning a living or the marksman engaged in a vendetta . |
| 7 | A very neat bit of professional sleight of speech , suggesting equivalence in choice and control , even though they and we know that the reality is very different . |
| 8 | I mean at one stage we go back a hundred years — back to Dalton he thought of his atoms as being fundamental entities that could never be broken up , whereas now we know that an atom is a very complicated structure and we can measure things about atoms , we can measure the distribution , we can where the electrons and so on are . |
| 9 | That we know because the room was cleaned at lunch-time and the cleaner actually switched on the light to help her see the condition of the table she was polishing . ’ |