Example sentences of "how [verb] we [verb] [that] " in BNC.

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1 You next time you come to do it you 'll be doing you 'll remember nearly as much as we 're doing today but perhaps some odd little bits you 'll think , ooh now how did we do that I ca n't quite work out .
2 How do we ensure that management is seen as a set of empowering activities and not as a control activity ?
3 How do we ensure that there is a much greater chance of catching those young men and adequately dealing with them ?
4 How do we ensure that every child has a role ?
5 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 ?
6 How do we control that process ?
7 The Lorrimores , followed by everyone still in the dining room , went dashing off into the dome car , but Emil and I looked at each other , and I said , ‘ How do we warn that train ? ’
8 How do we imagine that the Poles could put the zloty in the exchange rate mechanism ?
9 How do we know that sexual reproduction is responsible for the relative uniformity of species , and that its absence is responsible for the discontinuities between them ?
10 such as ‘ How do we know that the behaviour of numbers does not somehow change as they become larger ? ’
11 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 ?
12 After all , how do we know that our own picture of Jesus is necessarily right , especially when we realize that we too bring assumptions to faith ?
13 How do we know that there was an original crime of parricide ?
14 How do we know that owls are much smarter than chickens ? — Well , have you ever heard of a Kentucky Fried Owl ?
15 And furthermore , how do we know that relational statements purporting to depict such an order are in fact sometimes true ?
16 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 .
17 1 Where do we first learn about Auntie 's excellent eye-sight ? 2 Where do we first learn that Auntie can see into the future ? 3 How do we know that Auntie did not see the fire at the office block where she used to work ? 4 What exactly did Auntie foresee on the last afternoon of her life ? 5 Why did Auntie save Billy 's life , even though she knew that she herself would die ?
18 Keith : [ Afro-Caribbean ( aggressively ) ] How do we know that it 's a joke , in my opinion that was a disrespectful thing to say .
19 The major problem with Lukes ' view is that if there is no observable conflict then how do we know that power is being exercised at all ?
20 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 ?
21 ‘ And how do we know that everything in this dump has n't fallen off the back of a lorry ? ’
22 How do we know that the drugs enforcement authorities are doing their job when there is no point at which they are democratically accountable to elected people ?
23 How do we know that Dicke was convinced of the beneficial effect of wheat free diet even before 1940 ?
24 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 ?
25 How do we know that the experience that we presume that other people have in their religion is what we ourselves experience as we come apparently empty-handed to it ?
26 How do we know that what we 're drawing into our lungs is n't doing us harm .
27 Now , these er , Samaritans , they received the Holy Spirit , now how do we know that the Samaritans actually spoke in tongues ?
28 How do we know that the laws of nature are not really like laws of a game of chess , but played on a chess board where the laws change as you go from place to place on the chess board , which is a very more complicated situation than an ordinary chess game where the laws are the same no matter where the pieces are .
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