Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My frustration came to a head when I read an advert in a well known weekly which was for an attractive 1948 Series One the price of which has VAT added How can this be ? |
| 2 | My scientific colleagues say how can you possibly get involved when chimps in captivity live for 50 years ? |
| 3 | S s so w if we use the same thing that we 've just done on our own house and say how can we stop it from happening , might not get a burglar alarm . |
| 4 | And they say how can you prove it is the bloody pump is gone ? |
| 5 | Not all of them I accept and they 've been very helpful and when it comes to erm any other issue , I think basically , unfortunately sir , I think that we have strayed from the debate , we 've strayed onto ethnic issues er er and I think it 's a shame Mr , there was no need to introduce that and of course it was bound to bring a backlash , it was bound to introduce it it it it 's coloured it it 's made opaque the issues because you make it complicated , in actual fact er er I think that er being a governor of a school , I think that 's absolutely marvellous that some youngsters the future , I think the future will decide , I think there are kids out there will turn round one day and say how could you have done that ? |
| 6 | When so regarded the objection will be rephrased : there is no reason to think that people who know they differ in their conceptions of the good but do not know how will reach a compromise , whereas those who also know how will not . |
| 7 | Erm How will we know how will we know if there 's any gas escaping ? |
| 8 | I do n't know how could like him , d' you know that ? |
| 9 | One wonders where will management stop ? |
| 10 | and then they always say when can we come and see you with your husband ? |
| 11 | And then they say when can we come ? |
| 12 | He walked up here , walked to your house , looked at the bus I do n't know where 'd he come from |
| 13 | I said how am I not supposed to say anything , I said I do n't approve why should I keep this quiet ? |
| 14 | Of all the things they could have foreseen and prevented how could they possibly have foreseen this ? |
| 15 | If it had been anyone else , then , yes , even I would have said how can you have fire-damaged gin ? |
| 16 | He says how can they be of use in curing Anorexia or Bolemia when they 're caused by socio-economic factors which monkeys ca n't experience . |
| 17 | But I says how can they make money now , how can they make money out of that ? |
| 18 | trying to get through the , he says oh them people have left here , now you 'll have to , and he gives us another two numbers and that , I got through on one of the numbers and then er , I asked I says oh I says I did n't get me photograph and me plastic wallet , he says well you do n't really need them you know when you retired , but I says how can you go on the train , you sure of that ? |
| 19 | erm the paradox then says how can evolution possibly lead by natural selection to the selection of just that protein which best performs some function if , just by a random process of mutation it might never happen in the first place . |
| 20 | I have a few questions of my own erm in , in doing it and erm was er when you say that , that males had males parental investment erm I was wondering how they , how can a male when the male decides to desert how can they be certain if the female is going to take care of the offspring , because I was wondering if erm if probability like the based by their genes it does n't matter if one female does n't take care of the offspring because they produce more offspring |
| 21 | Ge generally speaking , I mean as far as you can tell , living as long as you have done how would you answer that question ? |
| 22 | But there again you see it 's how you hold How would you hold a skeleton you see ? |
| 23 | To my officers , it says why should we bother . |
| 24 | Steve Cunningham says people ca n't understand how can you can hit the ball if you ca n't see . |
| 25 | And so while these things here enable us to leave home , if you like , these things are buzzing round in our head and in marketing these are things we have to look at in order to , we have to be able to make product and then try and assess how will the tourist or potential tourist respond to this . |
| 26 | Look how can you get me to stay ? |
| 27 | I think you have to evolve , develop quite a lot of detective sense , to meet people , to imagine where could further letters be that would help me , and you have to charm your way virtually into those houses , and persuade the people erm to let you look at Grandfather 's letters in the trunk in the attic . |
| 28 | okay natural bar natural bar , so let's just copy how 'd ya spell nut , natural ? |
| 29 | Clearly , before the sound begins we can not measure the time it is going to take , but after it has sounded how can we measure it , since it is then no more ? |
| 30 | Something about skills you know like telephone technique you know how can you measure somebody 's telephone technique ? |