Example sentences of "how could [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could one river cause so much damage and threaten the livelihoods of so many farmers and landowners ? |
| 2 | So how could that water be like it is ? |
| 3 | When I see those beautiful scenes in Armide or Thésée roll on wonderfully with an air of fullness and ease in the same key , I can not help exclaiming : how could that single key contain so many lovely things ? |
| 4 | ‘ The lad asked a favour of an old shipmate , and being as he was most polite , how could that shipmate refuse , I ask you ? |
| 5 | How could that evil and unlovely face be Dorian Gray 's ? |
| 6 | How could that report have been so inaccurate ? |
| 7 | How could two smiles be so different ? |
| 8 | If , for instance , the king of France was at war with the king of Aragon or Castile and called upon the king of England , as duke of Aquitaine , to serve him according to his oath , how could former treaties of alliance between England and Aragon or Castile be broken ? |
| 9 | How could industrial action on a wide scale be avoided and the face of the NIRC be saved ? |
| 10 | The second alternative poses a serious problem , however , insofar as it leads to the further question , how could such Marxism not be true — in the sense of how could History , in the objective processes on which a scientific Marxism places so much faith , be undialectical enough to produce Stalinism from the October Revolution ? |
| 11 | A common query on the part of the novice when he reads an examination problem is : ‘ How could such facts ever be proved ? ’ |
| 12 | Indeed , one might well say how could such equality have occurred to Jesus , given the society in which he lived . |
| 13 | Growing up seeing nothing but these truly ghastly buildings , never using anything that is n't made of shoddy material , how could such children become people who would recognise and choose anything that 's beautiful ? |
| 14 | How could lesser mortals fail to feel inadequate in comparison ? |
| 15 | How could natural selection favour an increase in its frequency ? |
| 16 | At first she and Ernest had been completely mystified , for how could some solicitors they had never met have any news for them which would be ‘ to their advantage ’ ? |
| 17 | How could this man be here ? |
| 18 | Yet if he , just a man , could not find it in his heart to condemn his brother or the boy who had used his brother 's weaknesses to lure him to his death , how could this God of love of his childhood destroy so savagely and so arbitrarily ? |
| 19 | ‘ Agreed , ’ he replied , ‘ but how could this Lion cry even though it died ? ’ |
| 20 | How could this woman have become so attractive ? |
| 21 | How could this situation fail to develop if he ‘ failed to stop the nuisance by appealing to the parents of the young people ’ ? |
| 22 | How could this situation be approached differently ? |
| 23 | How could this right of election be anything other than a fiction if the breach of the term in all circumstances deprives the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should receive ? |
| 24 | How could any man be so huge and powerful in the flesh ? |
| 25 | How could any man want to lay a finger on her , never mind father her children ? |
| 26 | How could any jury — white or black — acquit the cops who had beat Rodney King senseless ? |
| 27 | ‘ Come on , out you all go , ’ said Mr Beavis , and with a rustle of nightwear and a bustle of bodies , his brood rolled out of the room , all talking at once about how could any burglar be daft enough to try burgling them . |
| 28 | They would n't include anyone representing the murderers or the bombers , so how could any agreement stick ? |
| 29 | How could any Catholic — much less a priest — argue against that ? |
| 30 | Another said : ‘ How could any mother leave a child to fend for itself ? |