Example sentences of "what we know [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us look at what we know about the two halves of the human brain : |
| 2 | Take what we know about the neural mechanisms of language , for example . |
| 3 | Another approach , exemplified by Vygotsky and Donaldson , supposes that children 's pictures — like all other aspects of their behaviour — must be interpreted in the light of what we know about the context in which the picture is produced and the culture in which the child operates . |
| 4 | What we know about the Ukrainian Division is that it was not retained by 5 Corps in Austria , and that by the end of May it had turned up in Italy . |
| 5 | It therefore seems sensible to reject a strong form of the clausal hypothesis as inconsistent with what we know about the way in which the syntax and semantics of clauses is analysed . |
| 6 | Radar studies of Venus began in 1961 and have revealed much of what we know about the Cytherean surface . |
| 7 | Let us begin then with a brief review of what we know about the ego 's past in order all the better to be able to understand something about its present and future . |
| 8 | It is a fair enough summary of what we know about the working lives of most women . |
| 9 | Given what we know about the formation of new varieties of English in overseas colonies of Britain , we might expect a similar process to have taken place among Caribbean migrants living in Britain itself . |
| 10 | The basic claim of the Principle is plausible enough : in constructing a fictional universe we rely on what we know about the actual world unless instructed otherwise . |
| 11 | Perhaps ironically , more general social scientific studies of children , child care and family life have rarely been drawn upon to inform and clarify what we know as a basis for discussions of child abuse . |
| 12 | The purpose here essentially is to outline what we know as a prelude to tackling the themes and patterns which emerge in a more analytical way in subsequent chapters . |
| 13 | All of my experience has been gained on what we know as the fast jets ; in the air defence role I have worked on the Lightning and in the ground attack role with both the Jaguar and Tornado . |
| 14 | It is said they were led along the secret paths by a traitor , these paths almost certainly being what we know as the Pilgrims , Way to Aylesford . |
| 15 | What we know of the family shows that it enjoyed its privileges to the full , and shared a positive and happy lifestyle , without hardship , yet without vaunted excess — a balanced lifestyle , despite his indispositions . |
| 16 | For Christians , God 's activity becomes associated not only with particular events but with a particular set of human actions , those that characterise what we know of the life of Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 17 | We also believe that these intimate , naive glimpses of a lost past have a wider interest just because what we know of the history of later life from inside is so meagre . |
| 18 | Granted what we know of the history of the city it is clear that the vast majority , as probably the similar multiplicity in many other English towns , were built between the tenth and the twelfth centuries , and that the multiplication of parish churches was especially characteristic of the eleventh century . |
| 19 | ‘ Soul ’ is established as a category containing phenomena as disparate as Professor Paul Davies ' conviction that what we know of the universe points to a grand design , Miriam Rothschild 's delight in the beauty of her biological subject matter , and Oliver Sacks ' realisation that his patients ' brains do not resemble computers . |
| 20 | Furthermore , our response to the image is coloured by what we know of the person depicted , whether they are relatives , friends , public personalities , or totally unknown . |
| 21 | From this , and what we know of the demise of the mosaic craft in the mid-late third century , it has been customary -and reasonable — to infer that the Barton mosaic and the comparable mosaic from Woodchester are of the early fourth century , probably before 325 . |
| 22 | Such a datIng of the interlaced square and saltire arrangements ( type C arrangements ) accords well with what we know of the continental parallels . |
| 23 | Theoretically , we might expect this to be so , since the same environment tends to support the same kind of organisms , but in fact the persistence of some fossils appears to go far beyond what we know at the present day . |
| 24 | Given this , we must recognize that knowledge of appearances is not , in itself , such a worthless thing ; what we know on the basis of sense-experience is perfectly good for many purposes . |
| 25 | Well er if you looked at the I 'll give you one or two averages and and I have to say that these are figures that are a mixture of what we know from the industry and what we what we know from our own company . |