Example sentences of "but how [modal v] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But how shall we achieve these aims ? ’ |
| 2 | Conjugation is a powerful technique on the cube and in general but how shall we apply it ? |
| 3 | So as soon as someone has faced the critical nature of his dilemma without God ( the first level ) and has come to recognize that if God 's revelation is true he does have a meaningful answer to his dilemma ( the second level ) , then , logically , the next urgent question is , But how may I know that God 's revelation is true ? |
| 4 | But how would they explain the recent experience of one of our hack 's friend . |
| 5 | But how would they know ? ) . |
| 6 | she could get a bus to Bath , but how would she get home again ? |
| 7 | She meant what she 'd said and she intended to keep her promise — but how would she survive another two weeks of living in such close proximity to Guido , when with every moment that passed her hopeless love for him grew deeper ? |
| 8 | No that 's what happens if it happens but how would you avoid it ? |
| 9 | That 's fine , but how would you do it ? |
| 10 | But how would you differentiate it . |
| 11 | But how would you choose the 250 who were to be allowed off the Ark ? |
| 12 | Yes , but how would you want men to change . |
| 13 | ‘ But how would you place your work though ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But how would you get all the way up to my bedroom window ? ’ |
| 15 | But how would it play ? |
| 16 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 17 | He has miraculously survived all this , and even being education secretary , but how would he measure up to being chairman , in a party where , in times of stress , to be party chairman is a greater thing than to be a secretary of state ? |
| 18 | But how would he break the news to Georgina that he 'd let her down after all these years ? |
| 19 | But how would he survive on a pension of £90 per week for a married couple , with the cost of living today ? |
| 20 | " But how would he have got into the Biology Lab , then ? " |
| 21 | But how would he know them ? |
| 22 | But how dare I cut off my mother 's hair ? |
| 23 | But how could we ensure that complexity and mystery were the only qualitative differences between the various skylines ? |
| 24 | But how could we believe that health and education could be the main players in achieving these targets ? |
| 25 | It is the two hundred and twenty five , but how could we calculate that from just looking at , if they just told us and you did n't use the protractor . |
| 26 | But how could they understand ? |
| 27 | Coffee , strong and black , was what he needed , not Mr Jackson 's breakfast tea , but how could one explain that to the good English landlady ? |
| 28 | But how could anything have got hold of him here , without our seeing ? " |
| 29 | But how could you speak the constellations of wonder with the coarse geometry of sound ? |
| 30 | He may have been your foster brother , but how could you gossip about something so … personal ? ’ |