Example sentences of "can [adv] know [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
| 2 | An enterprise director can not do what he considers best for society since , without the market 's signals , he can not know what this is . |
| 3 | The very freedom from mass accountability which allows it to do so also makes it difficult for leaders to know what society is thinking : without mechanisms for making needs known and understood , Polish and Soviet leaders simply can not know what the consequences of a rise in food prices or of other policy shifts will be . |
| 4 | We can not know what the future will bring ; nor did he . |
| 5 | ‘ Jay , right , he can not know what I 'm talking about , say you 're distraught , acting irrationally , suffering from bizarre flights of fancy . |
| 6 | We can not know what we shall be discussing next year or the year after at this time . |
| 7 | Even if he 's your husband he can not go through the pain you went through and so can not know what it is like . |
| 8 | One can not know what an adjective is being applied to just by considering its lexical meaning : the support of an adjective is defined by something outside the adjective 's own lexical content . |
| 9 | The first example above , for instance , implies that Dickens took special care not to represent Chancery in a particular way , which is something we can never know ( we can not know what was going on in Dickens 's head ) . |
| 10 | You ca n't know that any more than I can ever know what it 's like giving birth to a child . |
| 11 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 12 | The balancing truth is that children can never know what parents owe to them . |
| 13 | But it might as well not be , because we can never know what is determined . |
| 14 | There will inevitably be a number of actual physical sites that could be chosen and , while we can never know what criteria were applied , a good spring or a good view , or a particular happening which was never recorded may all have influenced the choice of site . |
| 15 | We can never know what folly and what wisdom is in the speeches until we have had a chance to read them . ’ |
| 16 | The teacher can now say , " We can plan for the worst , but we can never know what exactly will happen . " |