Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] how the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But as time went on he realised he could not convey how the style had evolved without understanding the techniques at first hand . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In particular , general relativity can not predict how the universe should begin at the big bang . |
| 8 | It would mean that science alone could not predict how the universe began . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I do not know how the money would be found , except from higher taxes or higher electricity prices , or both . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Collector did not know how the magazine had been blown up but he did not stop to wonder . |
| 18 | He could not understand how the West could have allowed it all to take place . |
| 19 | I can not understand how the Government sends a man out to fight us , as it did General Miles , and then breaks his word . |
| 20 | I do not understand how the Government can paint the picture that they have . |
| 21 | In the ‘ He had green parakeets ’ opening she could not understand how the bird would get into the cage with his wings spread . |
| 22 | Mungo could not understand how the price constantly rose while no one seemed to bid . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He could not understand how the hrududu could move so quickly and smoothly through the fields . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In addition , one can not see how the imposition of a charge which is the same whether the journey is one station down the line , or from Inverness to Plymouth , can be considered fair and reasonable within the confines of any Charter . |
| 27 | ‘ We do not see how the department could describe the full implications of the new system of funding community care as being either foreseeable or insignificant ’ , it says , calling on the DoH to prepare for contingency spending . |
| 28 | I can not see how the canon of poetry could avoid being constructed along historical lines , though the problem and implications of canon-formation should be faced , as part of theoretical study . |
| 29 | ‘ But 1 do not see how the lobster could be poisoned . |
| 30 | Without the resurrection they do not see how the death of Jesus achieves much at all . |