Example sentences of "how could the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is simplified and implausible ( how could the Spartans exercise influence over Athenian politics ? ) but the grain of truth is that Themistokles was indeed out of favour at Athens by the end of the 470s , when he was ostracized ( Diod. xi.54 ) . |
| 2 | How could the others be differentiated ? |
| 3 | But how could the kidnappers have known about your arrival in Perugia five hours before it happened ? |
| 4 | But how could the advantages of the klystron with its enclosed resonators be combined with the more favourable geometry of the magnetron ? |
| 5 | How could the eggs be prevented from drying out and how could tadpoles develop out of water ? |
| 6 | How could the authorities treat children in this heartless and dispassionate manner ? |
| 7 | How could the passengers be placed in the circle so that all the Turks would be thrown overboard and all the Christians saved ? |
| 8 | But how could the Templars , operating in the early twelfth century , have acquired such familiarity with a cryptographic system dating from a thousand years before , whose practitioners had apparently long vanished from the stage of history ? |
| 9 | But how could the animals mend the hole ? |
| 10 | And yet how could the non-Russians indefinitely accept a division of labour that left them , in some cases , as ‘ raw material ’ republics , exporting their primary produce and importing more expensive manufactured goods ? |