Example sentences of "can [not/n't] 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 ) . |