Example sentences of "if we [verb] know [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we wish to know why hysteria is now so rare and why modern forms of psychopathology in general seem so often removed from their classical , nineteenth and early twentieth-century manifestations , we may now be in a position to give at least part of the answer . |
| 2 | Thus , for example , if we wished to know how much we are spending on orthopaedic surgery , the departmental analysis of expenditure will not tell us . |
| 3 | If we want to know when the counterfactuals definitive of holist explanation can be sustained , we shall have to study the links between constraints such as those imposed by the longue durée and the attributes of individuals in considerable detail ; and this in turn requires the separation of the latter from the mélange of événements . |
| 4 | If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases , we have to look . |
| 5 | Stroud grants that if we want to know how a third person can know the nature of reality , we might carry out a psychological investigation of his methods of information processing , and then compare the results of his reasoning with known facts . |
| 6 | It is important to realise , however , that what we have discussed in this chapter is relevant to the next chapter , since if we want to know how language is understood we have to be aware of the large number of different levels of processing which are involved . |