Example sentences of "how could the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could the company treat its own in such a shabby fashion ? |
| 2 | How could The Smiths sink into big time rock and roll and retain their integrity ? |
| 3 | How could the church , a church supposedly based on the love of humankind , issue such a horrendously offensive document ? |
| 4 | How could the brain perform such a calculation ? |
| 5 | Otherwise how could the customer know she had got what she paid for ? |
| 6 | This is simplified and implausible ( how could the Spartans exercise influence over Athenian politics ? ) but the grain of truth is that Themistokles was indeed out of favour at Athens by the end of the 470s , when he was ostracized ( Diod. xi.54 ) . |
| 7 | If the tests were truly designed for the control of ‘ anti-social influences in the arts ’ , as the Report said , then how could the law seem other than misconceived when a decade or more of legal scrutiny and barristers ' banter had been publicly squandered on the anti-social potential of pubic hair , the peculiar dangers of which seemed clearer to the police than to juries . |
| 8 | How could the child he loved most have failed to inherit either his instincts or the opinions he had with such difficulty acquired ? |
| 9 | How could the Prince have known of Lady Eleanor 's death so early ? |
| 10 | How could the centre " maintain its administrative ties with the masses to ensure adequate national defense and tax collection ? " . |
| 11 | How could the relationship between economic and ecological rationality be inverted or rather corrected ? |
| 12 | The bond of liege homage posed a further difficulty for one who was sovereign in his own right : how could the king of England perform services to the king of France which ran counter to his own previous alliances ? |
| 13 | It was then widely believed that the universe was static , yet if space , and particularly time , were curved back on themselves , how could the universe continue forever in more or less the same state as it is at the present time ? |
| 14 | How could the God-Emperor have sanctioned such a plan , if the human race were ever to achieve the destiny he had dreamed of for it ? |
| 15 | How could the ombudsman improve on that ? |
| 16 | How could the others be differentiated ? |
| 17 | But how could the kidnappers have known about your arrival in Perugia five hours before it happened ? |
| 18 | But how could the building be used today ? |
| 19 | How could the anxiety have been avoided ? |
| 20 | But now a problem would arise : since frays and phrase have the same spoken form , how could the patient decide which of these two meanings is correct ? |
| 21 | And even if they meant him no threat , how could the Lord Owen be sure of it ? |
| 22 | How could the Secretary of State dismiss so lightly and in advance a report which had not even been written at that date ? |
| 23 | Again , how could the ability to eat a ‘ previously ’ toxic plant , ever be evolved ? |
| 24 | How could the lev or the rouble be put in the ERM ? |
| 25 | But how could the advantages of the klystron with its enclosed resonators be combined with the more favourable geometry of the magnetron ? |
| 26 | How could the eggs be prevented from drying out and how could tadpoles develop out of water ? |
| 27 | How could the authorities treat children in this heartless and dispassionate manner ? |
| 28 | How could the government simply let him go — and what would happen to him if they did ? |
| 29 | How could the government be better off by privatization ? |
| 30 | 2 Without putting his brick back , how could the see-saw regain balance ? |