Example sentences of "how could [noun] [verb] " 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 | On this particular day such differences were resolved through later discussion , but how could conflict have been avoided altogether ? |
4 | How could Lisa know him so well , when she herself had been so naïvely blind ? |
5 | How could fitzAlan say such things so naturally ? |
6 | How could Catherine have liked him , Ellen ? |
7 | How could providers help adults ? |
8 | If he were in the very act of cutting his own throat , how could Harry have stopped him ? |
9 | ‘ How could Buckingham make such treasonable utterances — without being hounded out of the chamber ! ’ |
10 | How could Ma look like that at someone who could n't even speak English ? |
11 | Since any well-educated person had read The Rape of the Lock or Paradise Lost , how could English justify itself as an academic discipline ? |
12 | How could Buff find me ? |
13 | Yeah , but how could Jim do that ? |
14 | How could life have originated in an atmosphere which — by today 's standards — seems so inimical to life ? |
15 | But how could life have changed so much that this was happening ? |
16 | How could Anne understand ? |
17 | How could infants develop towards such a conception ? |
18 | How could Julian call himself his friend all this time and let him down so badly ! |
19 | How could History have failed to bring about an end to history ? |
20 | How could coypu have got into a Suffolk pond ? |
21 | How could Blackbeard 'ave got his wallet back , go on , tell me . ’ |
22 | Yet stay with the problem : how could Jesus pay the price to the Father when the Father was involved so directly in the work of the Son ? |
23 | How could Isabel read any possibility of error into that ? |
24 | How could Vitor tap so effortlessly into her physical awareness — of him , and of her own traitorous desires ? |
25 | Or , more widely , how could citizens fulfil their role in a democracy without undergoing some political education , and how was such an education possible without free communications and free debate ? |
26 | Now , people said , how could Darwin explain how something like haemophilia could keep going ? |
27 | How could Christine forget him ? |
28 | How could Tilly tell of these things ? |
29 | How could men do this ? |
30 | How could Pound continue to proclaim this , when his own writing for decades before had belied it ? |