Example sentences of "how could [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reynolds said , ‘ How could Jenner make the leap from insulin to fertility ? ’ |
| 2 | How could Scotland withstand the might and height of the Sassenachs ? |
| 3 | How could things be made better ? |
| 4 | On this particular day such differences were resolved through later discussion , but how could conflict have been avoided altogether ? |
| 5 | How could Lisa know him so well , when she herself had been so naïvely blind ? |
| 6 | How could fitzAlan say such things so naturally ? |
| 7 | For in that case how could daemons and evil have any connection with the hydra ? |
| 8 | How could healing from a priest when I had no faith be of any assistance , and was n't the whole of that phoney world perfectly epitomized by the belief that the wanderings of an old man in the Oxfordshire lanes in the 1930s , seeking the energies of various plants , could possibly be relevant to a most dreaded disease ? |
| 9 | How could Catherine have liked him , Ellen ? |
| 10 | How could freedom of expression be put at risk merely by the Government 's saying to any one individual ( the Second Vice-President was here referring to foreign capitalist press owners ) that ‘ what you have said is of no relevance in this country and will stir up trouble and mar the peace ’ ? |
| 11 | How could providers help adults ? |
| 12 | For how could Carole — a truly kind , sweet and very generous person — have guessed that a romantic dinner for two was the very last thing on their minds ? |
| 13 | If he were in the very act of cutting his own throat , how could Harry have stopped him ? |
| 14 | ‘ How could Buckingham make such treasonable utterances — without being hounded out of the chamber ! ’ |
| 15 | How could Ma look like that at someone who could n't even speak English ? |
| 16 | Since any well-educated person had read The Rape of the Lock or Paradise Lost , how could English justify itself as an academic discipline ? |
| 17 | How could Buff find me ? |
| 18 | Yeah , but how could Jim do that ? |
| 19 | How could sea ice come and go so quickly ? |
| 20 | Otherwise how could speaker Lentor tell the King that the speaker on that 's on that occasion could only be instructed by parliament . |
| 21 | How could life have originated in an atmosphere which — by today 's standards — seems so inimical to life ? |
| 22 | But how could life have changed so much that this was happening ? |
| 23 | How could man , created in God 's image , be no more than a modified monkey ? |
| 24 | Having shown the sudden , deep interest , how could Mungo now claim that he no longer wanted to visit the stable ? |
| 25 | How could Anne understand ? |
| 26 | ‘ How could concepts of democracy take root in such a system ? ’ , asked the author . |
| 27 | How could countries dependent upon her economically exercise any meaningful constraint ? |
| 28 | And how could Dr Neil , who was such a man of sense , tolerate such a … nodcock ? |
| 29 | How could infants develop towards such a conception ? |
| 30 | How could Julian call himself his friend all this time and let him down so badly ! |