Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is law and order , well , sort of How can you be so sure that it 's not what it seems ? ’ |
| 2 | Was there any sort of how can I put it , any sort of feeling that certain individuals in the lodge would go back to work ? |
| 3 | This makes how + bare infinitive the equivalent of how can or how could , a paraphrase which is applicable to all of the uses attested thus far . |
| 4 | and , and sort of when can we have a script you know and you write it down and take thirty per cent of it , or whatever you know , erm , I mean the other thing that Alex has drawn er |
| 5 | Maybe that is the point : without being tuned in how can we know whether there is anything there or not ? |
| 6 | They found that five-year-olds and nine-year-olds showed a tendency to respond to How can you tell that ? questions by referring to a cause rather than to evidence , though this tendency was less strong for their nine-year-olds than for their five-year-olds . |
| 7 | About how can you mind how many of you there would have been ? |
| 8 | For how can one really study a system of state control without acknowledging that such an activity itself is antithetical to the direction of power ? |
| 9 | I have seen at long last that I need to be free of my beloved mistress and even as I write that word it is hollow for how can I love one who no longer has the least regard for me ? |
| 10 | This third point again seems paradoxical , for how can prey be both aposematic and not aposematic ? |
| 11 | We also expect the expert to inform us what is in our best interests , for how can we know this when the technical grounds for such judgements are , by definition , outside our competence . |
| 12 | By equating ‘ prejudice ’ or ‘ racism ’ with individual psychological states , ‘ institutional racism ’ becomes a logical impossibility : for how can institutions harbour irrational hatreds ? |