Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh adv] [modal v] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how can a farm worker strike against an employer whom he knows to be , more often than not these days , a solicitous and considerate person , even if he pays low wages ? |
| 2 | I believe it to be a natural duty , and if it be a natural duty it is a divine duty and how can a husband have power to discharge a divine duty ? |
| 3 | The aims are to find out how the teachers are using the micros , what problems they have , what features of the technology are important and how can an LEA best support them . |
| 4 | There has to be human purpose behind art , and how could a computer ever have that ? |
| 5 | What is the British Constitution ; what is constitutional theory ; and why should a book about the location and exercise of power in Britain spend time dealing with these matters ? |
| 6 | He was supposed to be the leader in this assignment , but how could a man lead going backwards ? |
| 7 | The Creator 's computer : but how could a person communicate with a computer ? |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | But how could a fig tree ‘ retaliate' ? |
| 10 | At first someone thought it might be a salmon but how could a salmon get into Loch Craig ? |
| 11 | But how could a waverer be censored if God had elected to withhold this gift ? |
| 12 | But how can a sentence have a causal role in relation to other sentences if the second sentence 's causal role is defined in terms of its relation to the first sentence ? |
| 13 | ‘ But how can a Jew be Tsar ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But how can a father do without his boy ? ’ |
| 15 | But why would a man like Ipuky go to such lengths , when , if he felt that Huy was a threat , he could so easily have him killed ? |
| 16 | But why should an aid be greeted with special enthusiasm after the novelty has worn off ? |