Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] know very " in BNC.

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1 Erm er , my name 's , an ordinary shareholder for long-standing erm , it would be very interesting , I do n't know whether this is possible now or maybe following on from what the speaker has said , if we had some idea of the American system which is er , I only know very little about it er I , just how that works because we have presidents and vice presidents and , er I think it work rather differently .
2 At the same time and again harking back to Durkheim , at least in the case of tribal societies we usually know very little of their past through lack of documentary sources , so we can ignore this ‘ conjectural history ’ .
3 We still knew very little about them .
4 We may now be able to observe and record strandings in ever-increasing detail , but we still know very little of what lies behind them .
5 Both national survey data and smaller in-depth studies now enable us to document at least some of the financial effects of care-giving on women , although we still know very little about the consequences for women who begin or continue to give care in their own old age , or about the experiences of Black women carers .
6 Really we still know very little about what teachers actually do in the classroom and it 's all very well standing back in university and saying teachers should do this and should do that , but in order to be able to offer guidance I think we really need to do more research in mixed ability classrooms to discover how teachers at the moment are dealing with the situation and where we might offer them more support , and that 's the direction I 'd like to see research going ; rather than more of the grandiose large-scale quantitative studies , which collect lots of figures and statistics , I 'd like to see a lot more studies in actual classrooms looking at actual teachers teaching , looking at what they do and how we can improve that .
7 The use of girls above ground increased after 1815 , but the truth is that we really know very little of the actual numbers of women working in mines .
8 Though they were the subjects of much more inquiry than the ‘ respectable ’ working classes ( but in this generation distinctly less so than before 1848 or after 1880 ) , we really know very little about anything except their poverty and squalor .
9 And , indeed , if we look closely at any of the explanations which have been offered , we are forced to admit that we actually know very little beyond the bare statistics of attainment in public examinations or national surveys .
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