Example sentences of "we know from the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know from the pottery of the Chimu period that the Incas were cultivating potatoes during the 13th Century but we believe that for many hundreds of years before that the Quecho Indians had enjoyed a staple diet of wild potatoes and had even developed an ingenious method of freeze-drying them to provide food throughout the winter months . |
| 2 | We know from the observations of Herodotus nearly a century later that they were still treating the animal with the utmost respect . |
| 3 | Nick Hawkins is representative , as we know from the signatures to the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion , of many of the new Members . |
| 4 | Certainly women sat spinning upon them as we know from the description by Adam Sedgwick , a reliable witness . |
| 5 | Mrs Padmore , as we know from the memorandum at the front of the file , is going to be transferring to the Economic Secretariat in a few weeks ' time . |
| 6 | The surface integral converts by Gauss 's theorem to a volume integral , as before , so that But and we know from the equation of motion ( 2.18 ) that . |
| 7 | We know from the parable of the labourers in the vineyard that one penny or one donarius was an accepted whole day 's wage for a twelve day in the heat of the sun in the great harvest , so the two pence was the equivalent of two days ' wages . |
| 8 | We know from the study of modern depressive individuals that their illness , if it is of the type termed manic-depressive , can take a sometimes sudden and completely opposite course . |
| 9 | We know from the example of ‘ blindsight ’ that ‘ visual ’ computations can occur without any conscious phenomenology ( Weiskrantz 1977 ) . |
| 10 | The Sumerians certainly maintained trade contacts with India , as we know from the testimony of seal-stones . |