Example sentences of "how [verb] we know [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Mortality statistics , too , are not restricted to the unemployed : how do we know that they are not indicating greater health problems in the population as a whole during times of economic difficulty ?
2 Keith : [ Afro-Caribbean ( aggressively ) ] How do we know that it 's a joke , in my opinion that was a disrespectful thing to say .
3 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 ?
4 And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that .
5 How do we know whether you
6 So ‘ taking stock ’ is not simply concerned with ‘ How do we know if we have arrived ? ’ , but crucially ‘ Have we travelled by the best route ? ’ .
7 How do we know if we 're going straight ? ’
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