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Example sentences for "common knowledge"

  • That they do so carry them is common knowledge and in eleven wild ducks examined by H.

  • We are so accustomed to roots going down and shoots going up that we are not apt to think of it as the result of two antagonistic growth habits, the true cause of which is not understood, the result of which is common knowledge.

  • What our cotton fields of the South, the wheat and corn fields of the Middle West, the jute in India, and the coconut palm and sugar cane in the tropics have done to dictate the economic destiny of those regions is common knowledge.

  • Queen Hortense was a matter of common knowledge.

  • It was a matter of common knowledge in Lisbon that 50 per cent.

  • The German love of titles is a matter of common knowledge.

  • Common knowledge of the forces and objects about us becomes scientific only as we are able to make accurate measurements of these.

  • This is a matter of common knowledge wherever a system of waterworks with connections to houses is found, as in cities.

  • The fact that they did separate is common knowledge, and a cause frequently assigned is lack of space to develop.

  • Within two days farther east small coins are unknown, the peso being the only money value in common knowledge.

  • The penalty for the above two crimes is common knowledge, and if the crime is proved there is no longer need for the old men to make a decision -- the offended party takes the customary retributive action against the offender.

  • Barthou, in his Life of Mirabeau, refers to it as a matter of common knowledge, and relates that a paper was found at Mirabeau's house describing a new Order to be grafted on Freemasonry.

  • In the main, therefore, and without absolute dogmatism as to this or that special portion, we may accept this mass of common knowledge as affording data for our philosophical analysis.

  • Although data can only be criticised by other data, not by an outside standard, yet we may distinguish different grades of certainty in the different kinds of common knowledge which we enumerated just now.

  • It is a matter of common knowledge that it is necessary for the eggs to be "fertilised" in order that they may start on that series of changes and growth which we call "development," and become tadpoles and eventually young frogs.

  • This is a simple and certain result of the careful examination of the heads of innumerable toads, and is not merely "common knowledge," but actually the last word of the scientific expert.

  • I imagine that if he had consulted the Military Members of the Army Council they would have mentioned it, as it was almost a matter of common knowledge in the Service.

  • It is common knowledge now, and it was indeed fairly common knowledge at the time, that the statement was in the highest degree misleading.

  • It is a matter of common knowledge, that, owing to Melanchthon’s machinations, they had never even been discussed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black bass; certainly would; classical studies; common among; common custom; common denominator; common fire; common government; common interest; common language; common lodging; common noun; common occurrence; common people; common plant; common resident; common schools; common sense; common sight; common things; common use; commonly known; could guess; nearly spherical; real mother; tight compartments