Example sentences of "can know [Wh det] " in BNC.

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1 No onlooker , during the process , can know which is which .
2 It does n't matter where he/she finishes , but whether the coach is only asking the eight-year-olds to spring 50m or trying to get all the senior team to really race hard over the first 1500m , he or she must be seen to experience it too or the children simply wo n't believe the coach can know what he/she is talking about .
3 No one , however sharp their hearing , can know what their own voice sounds like from the outside .
4 Only you can know what your ‘ whispers ’ mean — by going within , and asking . )
5 Only you can know what is right for you — so only you can make the final decision .
6 No one can know what he would have written because he was a direct witness and he had an exceptional personality — a deep artistic sensibility and great erudition .
7 However , he rejects this view on the ground that although the redness of a red object is not something which merely happens to look red to us , since a redness which did not look red would not be redness , nonetheless ‘ red ’ does not mean ‘ looks red ’ since only one who understands ‘ red ’ can know what ‘ looks red ’ means .
8 Ernest Gellner and Alastair MacIntyre have both argued for the need for a judgement to be made about the degree of internal coherence and rationality in belief systems , before the sociologist can know what type of explanation to apply to the beliefs he is studying .
9 Thus I can know what is in the bottom drawer of my desk , or what I shall eat for breakfast tomorrow , by some form of inductive inference from what I have observed or am now observing .
10 These decisions are taken privately , without reference to what everyone else is doing , because nobody can know what everyone else is doing .
11 The hon. Gentleman can know what we have agreed not to join .
12 It is important , therefore , to be clear about the differences as well as the similarities so that one can know what to query as well as what to accept in the concepts .
13 ‘ If the driver who hit him knows that he hit him , I would urge him to come forward just so that I can know what happened . ’
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