Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [vb mod] people [verb] " in BNC.

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1 For example , knowing how may people aged between fifty and sixty are alive today , together with knowledge about the death-rate of this age group and their state of health , enables the state to plan the number of places that may be needed in residential homes for the elderly in twenty years ' time , as well as the level of home help provision that will be necessary .
2 How could people pack and prepare a lifetime 's possessions , even with six days ' notice ?
3 How could people do that to one another ?
4 Of course , that left me with a large question — how could people ignore what happened to the Jews ?
5 How could people turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to the horrors that they suffered ?
6 How could people buy this stuff ?
7 How could people admire my form and grace , my naked splendour with that weed clinging and climbing all over me .
8 Anyway , how would people know who to follow ?
9 How would people understand the function of that thing .
10 Sue : How will people get on to Community Action ?
11 The solicitors who , who get the kitemark , where will it go — how will people see it ?
12 His girlfriend Susan Kent says she 's disgusted , how can people do this to each other ?
13 I mean I mean how can people afford to do it Bet ?
14 How can people make such a mess of themselves ? ’
15 How can people increase their personal resources ?
16 How can people get further training when the government is closing down existing training centres ?
17 How can people get further training when the government is closing down existing training centres ?
18 So how can people get hold of tickets , and how much do they cost etcetera , etcetera ?
19 How can people stand that stuff ?
20 So how can people say there is a bias against coloured players ?
21 The Nazis killed six million Jews last time how can people say this kind of activity is not a threat ? ’
22 How can people have faith in us if we hold our job to redress the grievances of those who set us here as unimportant ?
23 If you do n't tell the truth , how can people understand each other ? ’
24 How can people live like that ?
25 Why should people gamble if they 're bound to lose ?
26 Why should people deny the co-operative principle by being deviant , making their meanings less accessible , their transactions therefore less effective ?
27 Although I am myself very much in favour of people going to the theatre and reading books it is very useful for my research for me to play devil 's advocate on these activities and to ask ‘ Why should people go to the theatre ? ’ and ‘ Why should people read books ? ’
28 Why should people get rich from selling shoddy goods , causing us and our pets distress and even death .
29 Why should people have money if they do n't know how to use it ?
30 I mean , why should people feel so homicidal towards milkmen ?
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