Example sentences of "how could [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how could a fig tree ‘ retaliate' ? |
| 2 | There has to be human purpose behind art , and how could a computer ever have that ? |
| 3 | At first someone thought it might be a salmon but how could a salmon get into Loch Craig ? |
| 4 | ‘ How could a daughter of mine take up with that bloody scum ? |
| 5 | How could a man who feels as I do , who writes what I have written , behave towards a woman — any woman — in ways remotely akin to the ones which have been suggested ? |
| 6 | How could a man join himself to God 's creation again ? |
| 7 | How could a man , however unique , win such a struggle ? |
| 8 | How could a man be sane who has to live as I do , hunting across the worlds for safety ? |
| 9 | He was supposed to be the leader in this assignment , but how could a man lead going backwards ? |
| 10 | And yet how could a man so beset fail to hold it against him ? |
| 11 | How could a man dressed in chainmail move so quickly and silently ? she asked mutely , watching as he took the soft linen in one big hand and carefully freed the material . |
| 12 | How could a man in his position take advantage of so vulnerable a creature as Melanie Gandell ? |
| 13 | How could a man so constitutionally unsuited to parliamentary life lead his party to power through parliament ? |
| 14 | How could a man so intelligent in every other way be so obtuse when it came to ordinary everyday living ? |
| 15 | How could a relationship like that possibly work ? |
| 16 | And if things went wrong , how could a boy and a one-legged man fight five strong men ? |
| 17 | But how could a waverer be censored if God had elected to withhold this gift ? |
| 18 | How could a member of his family have got there ? |
| 19 | ‘ How could a girl refuse an offer like that ? ’ |
| 20 | How could a birthmark , even tawny , convince the onlookers in the piazza two thousand years ago that it was gold , the metal of the gods , the stuff of ichor which flows in their ivory veins ? |
| 21 | ‘ How could a fork-lift truck run away on its own ? ’ she sobbed . |
| 22 | How could a rabbit be called Poison ? |
| 23 | The Creator 's computer : but how could a person communicate with a computer ? |
| 24 | How could a person have written as off-handedly , as cruelly , as she had done , yet still be able to add those cryptic letters , relic of a loving bond ? |
| 25 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 26 | How could a child as well cared for as that vanish from her ordinary life without someone raising a hullabaloo ? |
| 27 | The gesture may have been made for the sake of appearances : after all , how could a minister be without Christian charity ? |
| 28 | ‘ How could a scrap of a woman who 'd never left the country get mixed up with some crazy Venetian ? |
| 29 | So how could a species slowly and randomly evolve the ability not to be killed outright ? |
| 30 | If Bismarck could overlook the Poles , how could a people whose political profile was so low , and whose organisation was so poor , possibly be a threat to German identity ? |