Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it could " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I think that his main reason for rejecting the possibility is that he could not imagine a process whereby it could happen . |
| 2 | Is there any other way , some external means , whereby it could be detonated ? ’ |
| 3 | He noted that the agreement had been for DEC to increase its stake in Olivetti to 10% in July 1994 , but found a means whereby it could make good on its commitment earlier than expected . |
| 4 | Yet evolutionary science also pointed to the precariousness of moral progress-how it could so easily slip back into animal chaos . |
| 5 | But how it could be brought to bear on specific political decisions that had to be taken in for instance the 1930s — this was far from clear even to Eliot himself , if we judge from the dryly disenchanted tone of many of his editorial pronouncements and observations in The Criterion . |
| 6 | So it began to be asserted that this was a social service , and that there was something inherently reasonable and even laudable about subsidising the price of rented house-room — though how it could be reasonable or laudable to reduce by arbitrary and locally varying amounts the rents of an arbitrarily selected minority of families who have no common economic or other characteristic , is something which no one to this day has attempted to explain . |
| 7 | What they did not profess to understand was how it could be terminated . |
| 8 | It shows how the Word could give birth to commentators ’ words , as could the castrated Origen , but gives no acceptable explanation of how it could produce Origen . |
| 9 | Once Sheila was securely set towards the civil service as well , as if out of weakness or guilt Moran began courting her with vague , tentative offers ; if she were desperate to go to university they could still look into ways of how it could be managed and they would try to manage it somehow no matter how hard it was . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew I had n't done anything to Joanna and at the same time I was totally confused as to how it could have happened . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Simon Hughes , Liberal Democrat spokesman , challenged the Government to say how it could reconcile a state-run loan system with its privatisation programme . |
| 12 | And it seems to me , we must closely examine the roots of all this before we can begin to think how it could be otherwise . |
| 13 | The demonstration using cattle and sheep from competitive classes , explained the identification of genetic merit , heritability and how it could be exploited through group breed improvement schemes , embryo transfer and artificial insemination . |
| 14 | Frankie did not understand how it could be so important which end of the Bible they preferred to read or which church they were both too busy to attend every Saturday and Sunday . |
| 15 | There was lack of comprehension at how it could have happened and why the 63th Army could not have been relieved , and little consolation for bereaved relatives in the official interpretation of ‘ heroic sacrifice ’ . |
| 16 | When you select an item for a programme , consider how it will contribute to your goal and how it could affect mood and outlook . |
| 17 | He adored her for it and when Wilson chose to murmur against her interest , saying she could not see how it could be real , he was angry and said she was narrow and selfish , like most women . |
| 18 | If evolution proceeds by a series of small changes , it is hard to see how it could be otherwise . |
| 19 | The critic Richard Buckle accompanied them and described how they sat in the stalls of the empty theatre afterwards while Balanchine told them ‘ what he liked and did not like about it and how it could be improved ’ . |
| 20 | They are discussing how CAB training might form a recognised part of the Education and Training Programme ( ETP ) and how it could be funded as such . |
| 21 | The headteacher believed that everyone on site should become aware of the new atmosphere and how it could be managed . |
| 22 | Sometimes a bale of cloth went and you wondered how it could get past the Dock gate . |
| 23 | I can not imagine how it could be revised so as to be suitable for publication anywhere . |
| 24 | Perhaps she could have continued the conversation by offering to move the boxes or asking them how much more room they needed , and how it could be found . |
| 25 | She was completely in the dark about how it could have happened . ’ |
| 26 | Some critics point out that it is difficult to see how it could benefit larger multi-celled animals , because of the problem of passing on good genes via sperm cells , or the egg . |
| 27 | Mr Onanuga , 31 , has told friends he naively went along with the story because Mr Newton believed it was good publicity for Thresher and his own branch , and he did not see how it could harm anyone . |
| 28 | She found it perplexing and wondered how it could have affected her lessons with Miss Hatherby . |
| 29 | Discussion on the nature and forms of democracy and how it could be introduced into China was revived . |
| 30 | This measure the energy efficiency of your home , shows how it could be improved , and gives estimates of costs and potential savings . |