Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noted that the agreement had been for DEC to increase its stake in Olivetti to 10% in July 1994 , but found a means whereby it could make good on its commitment earlier than expected . |
| 2 | However , I think that his main reason for rejecting the possibility is that he could not imagine a process whereby it could happen . |
| 3 | But the Scottish Office remained unsure how the board could proceed without the use of juniors , and asked how it could continue once the exemption ended . |
| 4 | In working on these activities the class had worked systematically and persistently ; they had collaborated in pairs and groups ; they had identified patterns and structures in the sequences ; they had made predictions and tested them ; they had explained and justified their reasoning to me and to each other ; they had worked practically to understand the sequence and how it could model a real life situation . |
| 5 | When you select an item for a programme , consider how it will contribute to your goal and how it could affect mood and outlook . |
| 6 | At this point in this kind of argument it is customary to wonder what the West — more precisely , the United States — has done wrong in the Middle East , and how it could bring improvements faster . |
| 7 | Some critics point out that it is difficult to see how it could benefit larger multi-celled animals , because of the problem of passing on good genes via sperm cells , or the egg . |
| 8 | This leaflet details the main features of the Income & Growth PEP and highlights how it could benefit you . |
| 9 | When I asked Grand Met how it could justify the high rent increases , I was told that tenants could easily afford them because tenants would now receive all the proceeds from the amusement machines instead of sharing them with the brewers , although they still have to pay a high licence fee and rent . |
| 10 | Furthermore , if the GCC is to provide the financial support for security , it is difficult to see how it could do the same for ‘ reconstruction , and redistribution ’ , as suggested by Baker — massive though oil revenues may be , they do have limits . |
| 11 | Mr Simon Hughes , Liberal Democrat spokesman , challenged the Government to say how it could reconcile a state-run loan system with its privatisation programme . |
| 12 | So they sat wrapped in their own morbid silences , each harbouring his own private fear about what had happened to the village and how it could happen to them . |
| 13 | A new And he did n't understand how it could happen . |
| 14 | It shows how the Word could give birth to commentators ’ words , as could the castrated Origen , but gives no acceptable explanation of how it could produce Origen . |
| 15 | I even took its number just to prove how professional I was , not that I had any idea how it could help . |
| 16 | Mr Onanuga , 31 , has told friends he naively went along with the story because Mr Newton believed it was good publicity for Thresher and his own branch , and he did not see how it could harm anyone . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew I had n't done anything to Joanna and at the same time I was totally confused as to how it could have happened . ’ |
| 18 | There was lack of comprehension at how it could have happened and why the 63th Army could not have been relieved , and little consolation for bereaved relatives in the official interpretation of ‘ heroic sacrifice ’ . |
| 19 | She was completely in the dark about how it could have happened . ’ |
| 20 | She found it perplexing and wondered how it could have affected her lessons with Miss Hatherby . |
| 21 | In other words , we identify a particular event as the cause because we know how it could have made the effect happen , not because we know it happened before the effect . |
| 22 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 23 | This discrepancy is disturbing , and it is not obvious how it could have arisen , especially because the abstract and the full paper report on the same follow up period . |
| 24 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
| 25 | She had no clear idea of how it could have rolled from the table , for it had seemed perfectly secure when she had put it there . |
| 26 | How it could have been made to pay is a mystery . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , a broad understanding of the present Jovian interior , and how it could have got that way after its initial formation , now exists . |
| 28 | Her own imagination suggested how it could have happened . |
| 29 | ‘ Never mind how it could have happened . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't see how it could have been much worse , ’ Robbie said . |