Example sentences of "[conj] we know [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It is to reach a position where we are no longer assailed by doubts and uncertainties , where we know who we really are and where we are going .
2 It was with a certain sense of foreboding — as if we had seen an omen — that we descended from this mountain fastness to the domain of the Bugis , where we knew we had just two months left to find a prahu to carry us eastwards before the monsoon set in …
3 Although we know nothing of her education , she writes that the Countess was ‘ directed ’ by a mother famed for her furtherance of Protestant and humanist learning , Catharine Bertie , dowager Duchess of Suffolk [ q.v. ] , and we may suppose that more than usual attention was paid to her reading .
4 The production of axes from these sites was on a prodigious scale , although we know nothing of how they were traded and distributed all over England and Wales .
5 Although we know them in the UK as mushroom corals , the common name of this species is something of a misnomer .
6 Although we know his nickname at college was Pagan , it 's still unlikely that we 'll find out just what Morse 's real first name is tonight .
7 Although we know it is important to teach children that the roots of their culture are in the village , and in the preservation of values and the importance of agriculture , if you look at the primary and secondary level , we find that these aspects are not much stressed .
8 ‘ Because we are playing with mysterious forces , my child , that we know nothing about .
9 The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers .
10 ‘ The problem is that we know nothing about either the land or the people , ’ Alexei said .
11 The phrase does not indicate that Brahman does not exist , or that we know nothing about Brahman , but that we know that Brahman is so far beyond our understanding that anything we say will be misleading and therefore we must content ourselves with saying neti-neti .
12 Tick the film size box above the address panel so that we know which free film size to send you .
13 ‘ Mrs Shakespeare , ’ said the interviewer , ‘ now that we know what the terrorists are asking in return for your son 's life , has your view of the situation changed ? ’
14 Being out of touch is bad news so we need to be constantly on our guard that we do n't assume that we know what our consumers and clients are thinking or that we know what they want .
15 Being out of touch is bad news so we need to be constantly on our guard that we do n't assume that we know what our consumers and clients are thinking or that we know what they want .
16 To ask the question of whether there is enough presumes that we know what ‘ enough ’ is .
17 They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’
18 This assumes that we know what we want to enforce .
19 Thus , intergenerational expectations are created ; we say that we know what it is like to be a child ; we have some understanding of the needs , joys and sorrows of childhood ‘ from the inside ’ .
20 Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively .
21 Their approach is undermined by their mistaken belief that we know what experiential words ( 'pain' , ‘ looks red ’ ) mean by direct acquaintance with the things they stand for .
22 We 'll speak to them and tell them that we know what 's happened to you .
23 We trust other people 's judgements more than our own for the simple reason that we know what our judgements are based upon .
24 The main point about a search is that we know what we are looking for and often we know where to look .
25 Testing is a crucial part of ensuring that we know what quality of education our young people are achieving , so that if a satisfactory level is not reached , appropriate action can be taken .
26 Now that we know what it means , will the Prime Minister reflect on the ’ double whammy ’ that he received from the other place on the Education ( Schools ) Bill last night ?
27 Equation ( 7.6 ) assumes that we know what the UK and US inflation rates will be over the course of the year .
28 Said she 's guaranteed to phone me before the next council meeting , so that we know what we 're doing , so I 'll keep at her .
29 " We 've got to protect our reputation and we have to make sure that we know what we 're talking about " said Weir .
30 now that we know what the problem is , we get , we 're on top of it .
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