Example sentences of "how [vb mod] [pron] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others do not often see this as a genuine option , however , so how may we present a more positive image ? |
| 2 | But exactly how should we define an economy 's international position ? |
| 3 | How should you place a hood on a bird ? |
| 4 | How should you put a figure of profit costs to the defendants ? |
| 5 | How might one design a pharmacological approach to confer preconditioning 's anti-infarct effect to patients ? |
| 6 | How might one define an increase in hierarchy across governance structures within the class ? |
| 7 | Reviewing national programmes , however , raises key and difficult questions for both donors ( why did they not co-operate more effectively ? ) and recipients ( how could they justify a range of prestige projects ? why are they more dependant on aid than ever ? ) |
| 8 | ‘ How could they produce an older sister ? ’ |
| 9 | Talking Heads ' first foray into African rhythms was a setting of the Dadaist poet Kurt Schwitters 's I Zimbra ; Syd Barrett 's Golden Hair was a James Joyce poem ; and how could we forget An American Prayer , wherein Jim Morrison 's poems were backed by posthumously written Doors music ? |
| 10 | So how could we get a combination of all four ? |
| 11 | How could one neglect a man who was never there ? |
| 12 | How could one ring a bell on a house door in respectable places like this and say , |
| 13 | ‘ How could anyone despise a country which gave us the Renaissance , Venice , Michelangelo ? ’ |
| 14 | How could anyone abuse a wee child like that , I ask you . |
| 15 | How could she love a man she did n't trust ? |
| 16 | I mean how could she have a son like Joe ? |
| 17 | Finally , Mrs M. R. Ault of Gravesend , Kent , wrote to say she 'd just bought a ribber and how could she knit a V-neck band using the ribber . |
| 18 | ‘ How could you think a thing like that ? ’ |
| 19 | How could you love a child who , because of its strangeness and deformity , precluded you from having a child of your own because it might bear the same strangeness and deformity ? |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , I know that she deceived us as to who she is , but how could you believe a word Lord Blaine said about her , and she such a good hardworking girl ? |
| 21 | How could you use a |
| 22 | How could you direct a team when your staff practised half a dozen different scientific disciplines , used their own methods , were responsible for their own results , stood finally alone to justify and defend them in the only place where the quality of a forensic scientist 's work could properly be judged , the witness box of a court of law ? |
| 23 | They say my leg is dodgy but how could I referee a game like this one if that were the case . ’ |
| 24 | this is the this is it 's so easy , you think what 's an alternative to steel , oh it must be a metal , how could I make a bath out of copper or what could it be . |
| 25 | But how could I get a fire going fast enough to catch them ? |
| 26 | How could he arrange an accidental meeting with Julie that afternoon , that was the question . |
| 27 | How could he have a son and heir ? ’ |
| 28 | How could he afford a place like this if he was playing dives like the Moebius Strip ? |
| 29 | HOW COULD anybody harm a pensioner ? |
| 30 | How dare you make a fool of me in front of all those people ? ’ |