Example sentences of "[subord] we know it [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Erm most of the furniture we choose either because we know it from inventories and lists to have been the kind of thing that was in middle class households in York , or in some cases like this , where we know the 's have actually owned something like this .
2 Without the oxygen produced from water by green plants , life as we know it on this planet would be impossible .
3 The constructivist thesis , it is argued , is not relevant because mental representations have not been defined away and replaced by talk of actions : we still have to say how mental life as we know it to be , with the representational character that we naturally give to it , relates to neuronal life .
4 The fact that this is indeed found to be the case powerfully corroborates the theory of development being advanced in these pages and demonstrates that the apparent absence of the latency phenomenon as we know it among primitive people like the Australian aborigines is no proof of the falsity of the idea of latency as such .
5 Yet satellite television is revolutionising entertainment as we know it in Britain today — the trouble is sometimes it sounds as if you need a first class degree to join in !
6 The recognition that all men are equal in the sight of God is fundamental to liberty as we know it in modern Western societies .
7 Although there were thousands of lesser and hundreds of brown noddies on Cousin in October , it can not be easy to assess the population size , because with no positive ‘ summer season ’ as we know it in the temperate zones , many birds can be found breeding almost throughout the year .
8 It is true that there is a distinction between art as it is used develop mentally in schools and art as we know it in the world , but for most people is n't art what we knew it as in school ?
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