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 ?
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