Example sentences of "for [Wh adv] [adv] [vb mod] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is accepted that we are in possession of logically adequate criteria of particular-identification , I do not see how one could deny that such criteria are ever fulfilled ; for how else would we know that they are indeed adequate ? |
| 2 | ‘ Not to worry , ’ said the nurse , but I did , for how else could they find the polyps ? |
| 3 | Even if a non-verbal visual form of representation is not in the form of an implicit picture or image — and there must be non-verbal representations of a non-visual kind , for how else could we recognise the sound of a car door or the smell of supper ? — there is a wealth of experimental evidence ( Bower , 1970 ; Nelson and Brooks , 1973 ) to support the notion of two separate coding systems , verbal and non-verbal . |
| 4 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 5 | So we come back around the circle to the capital side of the balance of payments , and the operationally interesting question : for how long can we expect the world 's savers to make up our domestic shortage ? |
| 6 | Where and for how long should you keep them ? |
| 7 | What he wants to know Daphne is , for how long should he wait ? |
| 8 | If the use of a drug seemed appropriate , what dose should be used , and for how long should it be continued ? |
| 9 | And his sister ( she caught him ; Rubberneck had returned — for where else could he go ? ) had starved him — not , locked up in the room , a bite to eat nor drop to drink — in , she saw , a righteous punishment . |