Example sentences of "can not explain [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They quite simply can not explain WHY they believe WHAT they believe , and so rather than admit their ignorance about their own faith , they just shut up . |
| 2 | In other words , without it one can not explain why at the present time there is a maldistribution of world wealth and income such that the countries of the Northern hemisphere contain only 25 per cent of the world 's population but obtain 80 per cent of the world 's income , while the countries of the South contain 75 per cent of the world 's population but obtain only 20 per cent of the world 's income . |
| 3 | But more generally , if we use superordinate norms as our main reference point , we can not explain why , despite superordinate pressures towards uniformity , varieties of English and other languages can still remain so astonishingly divergent from one another and so variable within themselves . |
| 4 | It can not explain why , for example . |
| 5 | The nearly intact process is that which selects major lexical items ( content words ) from the lexicon : hence the patient produces appropriate content words ( though we can not explain why verbs are poorly produced relative to nouns ) . |
| 6 | While we can not explain why this sense should be restricted to British English ( the Brown Corpus confirms Quirk et al. " s claim ) , it is possible to offer some explanation for its tendency to occur in the perfective aspect . |
| 7 | But we can not explain why this is always objectionable , so long as we remain on the plane of justice as I have defined it . |
| 8 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 9 | I can not explain how it feels they may not be human , but they are flesh and blood . ’ |