Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] do we [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And how do we know that everything in this dump has n't fallen off the back of a lorry ? ’ |
| 2 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 3 | But how do we ensure that ‘ long-term ’ computer storage media are usable after the elapse of such a period of time , and how would the PRO or departments cope with accessing and appraising such a vast amount of material to make a selection ? |
| 4 | It is all very well to use the language of manipulation or indoctrination but how do we know that this in fact is what happens ? |
| 5 | But how do we know that it is vocationally advantageous to study history or to put it the other way round , that to study history is not vocationally disadvantageous ? |