Example sentences of "how could [noun] [vb infin] " 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 Catherine have liked him , Ellen ? |
| 6 | How could providers help adults ? |
| 7 | If he were in the very act of cutting his own throat , how could Harry have stopped him ? |
| 8 | ‘ How could Buckingham make such treasonable utterances — without being hounded out of the chamber ! ’ |
| 9 | How could Ma look like that at someone who could n't even speak English ? |
| 10 | How could Buff find me ? |
| 11 | Yeah , but how could Jim do that ? |
| 12 | How could life have originated in an atmosphere which — by today 's standards — seems so inimical to life ? |
| 13 | But how could life have changed so much that this was happening ? |
| 14 | How could Anne understand ? |
| 15 | How could infants develop towards such a conception ? |
| 16 | How could Julian call himself his friend all this time and let him down so badly ! |
| 17 | How could History have failed to bring about an end to history ? |
| 18 | How could coypu have got into a Suffolk pond ? |
| 19 | How could Blackbeard 'ave got his wallet back , go on , tell me . ’ |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | How could Isabel read any possibility of error into that ? |
| 22 | How could Vitor tap so effortlessly into her physical awareness — of him , and of her own traitorous desires ? |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | Now , people said , how could Darwin explain how something like haemophilia could keep going ? |
| 25 | How could Christine forget him ? |
| 26 | How could Tilly tell of these things ? |
| 27 | How could men do this ? |
| 28 | How could Pound continue to proclaim this , when his own writing for decades before had belied it ? |
| 29 | How could booksellers tap this source of data ? |
| 30 | How could Pike have possibly known ? |