Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] how the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it has to be reiterated that the CTP does not explain these observations : it does not explain how the impinging events give rise to awareness of those events . |
| 2 | St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time . |
| 3 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 4 | It indeed relates to the suggested function of that inhibition , but that fact will not explain how the prohibition which is explicitly against in-breeding will have arisen . |
| 5 | It does not explain how the intervention of these ( nearly ) classical systems chooses one chain rather than another as the physical occurrence on a particular occasion . |
| 6 | The girl could not explain how the locket came to be among her clothes , and it was clear that her protestations of innocence were in vain . |
| 7 | But as time went on he realised he could not convey how the style had evolved without understanding the techniques at first hand . |
| 8 | But here also we can not predict how the couplet will proceed ; not only do we not yet know the grammatical or syntactic pattern of the next line , or its lexical contents , but , more importantly , we do not know what kind of a relationship what we have read will bear to what we have yet to read . |
| 9 | In particular , general relativity can not predict how the universe should begin at the big bang . |
| 10 | It would mean that science alone could not predict how the universe began . |
| 11 | This would mean that science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning , but that it could not predict how the universe should begin : For that , one would have to appeal to God . |
| 12 | In the classical theory of general relativity one can not predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity . |
| 13 | To attribute authorship to the experts and knowledge engineers who developed the knowledge base is unsatisfactory because they can not predict how the system will be used and what responses will be made by the user ; they have no control over its use . |
| 14 | The White Paper and working papers do not discuss how the new organisational and managerial arrangements will improve links in development of community care . |
| 15 | I do not know how the customs people work these things out , but I have never paid import duties on these overseas postal purchases . |
| 16 | Again , we do not know how the time-cues work but there are schemes that can very reasonably be suggested . |
| 17 | Thus although we do not know how the DNA controls development , we are reasonably sure that it does carry almost all the information which has been produced by selection , and which is needed to control development . |
| 18 | Before its commencement we did not know how the ENP would be received in the department or indeed whether the proposed scheme would turn out to be a workable one . |
| 19 | Out on the river earlier in the battle , Commander Ryder had ordered the MGB back alongside Campbeltown ‘ and gone ashore with Leading Seaman Pike — an expert in German signals , part of the bluff — to make sure the destroyer was locked into the southern caisson , but he did not know how the battle was going ashore . |
| 20 | The Collector did not know how the magazine had been blown up but he did not stop to wonder . |
| 21 | Not only did I not know how the apple had come to be on the bookcase , or in the house for that matter ; but how could it be perfect in every way . |
| 22 | I do not know how the money would be found , except from higher taxes or higher electricity prices , or both . |
| 23 | He simply said that he did not know how the M.P.s would react in his favour but that he counted on me to work with him . |
| 24 | I do not know how the RAF dealt with bed-wetters in the days of National Service , but I am certain that even although the Royal Navy had abandoned hammocks not long after the Second World War , a persistent enuretic on board a warship would create even more serious problems than he could in an army barracks . |
| 25 | An abstract data type ( ADT ) is a set of operations , operating on a collection of stored data , defined so that they are rigorous enough to specify completely the effect that they have on the data , but abstract because it must not specify how the data is stored nor how the operations are carried out . |
| 26 | He said that it did not matter how the £3. 1 million was acquired and that it was what the company did with the money that mattered . |
| 27 | Mungo could not understand how the price constantly rose while no one seemed to bid . |
| 28 | I can not understand how the Government sends a man out to fight us , as it did General Miles , and then breaks his word . |
| 29 | Immediately a great roar of applause broke out , and Gurney looked at the audience , and this time his self-satisfied smirk seemed to be so obvious , to George at any rate , that he could not understand how the audience too could fail to see it . |
| 30 | Despite all the contrary opinions expressed in the play , the underlying message was that it is the mother 's right to choose whether she wants to bring up a child who is mentally handicapped , and that other people simply do not understand how the mother feels . |