Example sentences of "how [vb mod] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , as is sometimes the case , he is actually in a position to influence the course of events , how should he then act ? |
| 2 | Or you can say it the other way round That 'll be a negative correlation Now the alternative would be when you plot them you get a circle almost , you get , there appears to be no systematic relationship between the two So what you 'd be tempted to say is , no correlation Now I 'm gon na try and move towards how we might measure , how might we actually measure , get a measure of correlation because what you 'd be able to say is , well they 're more correlated or less correlated . |
| 3 | How might she still resolve the dispute by creative thinking ? |
| 4 | How 'd he ever fancy her ? |
| 5 | An old man in the corner sang Where the water lilies grow And on the jukebox , Johnny sang about a thing called love And it 's how 're ya kid and what 's your name and how 'd you bloody know … |
| 6 | How could they both stand there smiling when Bill might be dead ? |
| 7 | My Lord Mayor , how could they not throw out their socialist ideology when so many Labour Councillors , Labour Councillors , were buying , and some in this very Chamber , were indeed buying their own Council house . |
| 8 | Given their straitened horizons , and their own abnormality , how could they really think in terms of something as being significantly abnormal ? |
| 9 | Of all the things they could have foreseen and prevented how could they possibly have foreseen this ? |
| 10 | How could they possibly assess the value of the trinkets being imported — suitcases and crates crammed with carpets , pictures , furniture , diamonds , strings of pearls , ruby rings , emerald earring , tiaras , silver money transfers -all most every rich person in the country suddenly want this of her money telexed to accounts in Switzerland , Paris London , New York , the Cayman Islands . |
| 11 | How could they before pay rents then ? |
| 12 | How could they ever forget ? |
| 13 | For example , if the notion of human rights is a meaningful one ( itself in hot dispute ) , and if it extends to all humans , including the severely and terminally brain-damaged , then how could we logically fail to extend the notion to at least some animals ? |
| 14 | Assuming ( as we all do ) that our experience is somehow intrinsically different from the bat 's , how could we even conceive of what the bat 's experience is really like — that is to say , what it is like for the bat ? |
| 15 | How could we even fight them ? |
| 16 | The first approach replied that this was all very well but then how could we ever assess the importance of one variable against another in the overall changes ? |
| 17 | Now , how could we ever have forgotten it ? |
| 18 | How could we ever have believed otherwise ? |
| 19 | I agree Gazza 's a brilliant player , who would be an asset for any club , but I really do n't think we should be getting too excited about this — how could we possibly afford him ? |
| 20 | How could we possibly challenge such assertions ? |
| 21 | How could we possibly overlook the Schleyer Halle , the Festhalle , the Rothenbaum and the Rochusclub ? |
| 22 | How could one not admire a woman so clear as to her needs that she did not care whose flesh she carved her way through , who did not care whose sleep she shattered in the small hours of the dawn ? |
| 23 | How could one not smile around someone as irrepressible as her gorgeous red-headed cousin ? |
| 24 | After the wounds he 'd seen in his time , how could one little splinter have such an effect ? |
| 25 | Yet how could one possibly become acquainted with his wife , Marie , a woman who had been on the stage and who , it was known , had lived with him in adultery while waiting to be divorced ! |
| 26 | How could one so shy and so timid rule Ireland after Dierdriu was gone ? |
| 27 | ‘ How could anyone not want to go for a sail on a day like this ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ How could anyone not like it ? |
| 29 | How could anyone ever manage to chat up Carol ? |
| 30 | ‘ How could anyone possibly hate such adorable little creatures ? ’ she said indignantly . |