Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pron] possibly [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was 5.30 in the morning and I tried to reason with Otto by saying how could I possibly be drunk at that time . |
| 2 | ‘ What could I possibly be missing ? |
| 3 | ‘ What could she possibly be having a hand in ? |
| 4 | Could we possibly be going to have a bridleway instead of a new cross-town route ? |
| 5 | From what could he possibly be trying to escape ? |
| 6 | How could he possibly be associated with the excesses of such a raggle-taggle outfit ? |
| 7 | If an individual or the members of a firm may sue for a libel imputing to them insolvency , because of the damage which such a libel is calculated to do them in relation to their business , could it possibly be maintained that a trading corporation could not sue for a like libel ? … |
| 8 | You 're a famous author — the writer of The Graduate , for goodness sake , a book I love — how can you possibly be broke ? ’ |
| 9 | But this causes problems from the hard-line positivist point of view : if ‘ definitions ’ can vary in terms of such nebulous things as subjective meanings , how can they possibly be counted and measured ? |
| 10 | As this institution has now become purely a slanging match ( unfortunately the only time guaranteed to attract a full complement of Members ) , how can it possibly be taken as a serious part of governing the country . |
| 11 | How can it possibly be construed as unreasonable that the US discuss and join in an internationally negotiated end to the occupation of Palestine and Lebanon as well as Kuwait ? |