Example sentences of "how there can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I respect the teachings of Islam I do n't understand how there can be one law for men and another for women . |
| 2 | The substance of all that has so far been written in this chapter illustrates how there can be established a firm belief that God and man have developed from a common origin , the origin itself being irrelevant . |
| 3 | More important , natural selection provides a model of how there can be change towards a kind of fit or harmony , towards structured complexity , which is neither planned nor the result of goal-directed activity . |
| 4 | Mr E finds it hard to understand , if he compares Dave with his ‘ hard-working , extremely bright sister ’ , one year older , also at this school , how there can be two such different children in one family . |
| 5 | ( I , 817 — 18 ) Sartre arrives at what he calls ‘ the real problem of History ’ , that is how there can be totalization without a totalizer , only at the very end of Volume I. It is not until the next volume , however , that he intends to show how individual actions , separate multiplicities , make up ‘ one human history , with one truth and one intelligibility ’ ( I , 69 ) . |
| 6 | This strategy marks a structure of repetition in Sartre 's text : each time he poses the question of how there can be totalization of History without a totalizer , he retreats to a more limited example whose unity is already evident , but which in the end only brings him back to the original question again . |
| 7 | For all his use of the model of the boxing match , Sartre has really got no further with the fundamental question of how there can be totalization without a totalizer . |
| 8 | It needs support from an explanation , in terms of the conditional theory , of how there can be such counter-examples . |
| 9 | ‘ The ground of any action based on negligence is the concurrence of breach of duty and damage , and I can not see how there can be that concurrence unless the duty still exists and is breached when the damage occurs . |
| 10 | The ground of any action based on negligence is the concurrence of breach of duty and damage , and I can not see how there can be that concurrence unless the duty still exists and is breached when the damage occurs . |
| 11 | If the procedure employed up to the foot of the hearing of the committal application can not be criticised and the committal order has been correctly drawn , it is difficult to see how there can be an appeal against the committal order . |
| 12 | Indeed U may have no conventional meaning , which allows for the creation of new terms , nonce expressions , and thus ultimately for some aspects of language change ( for an explanation of how these communications may be understood , see Schiffer , 1972 : Chapter V ) But crucial for pragmatics , Grice 's theory explains how there can be interesting discrepancies between speaker-meaning ( Grice 's meaning-nn ) and sentence-meaning . |
| 13 | It seems that this tax charge does not actually cancel out the potential tax charge referred to above but it is difficult to see how there can be double tax problems because there can only be a charge on monies remitted to the United Kingdom and this can not extend beyond the amounts actually available to be so remitted . |