Example sentences of "how can [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How can they not understand that to do a real Kitezh or a real Ruslan — as we will do in the next year or so , it 's planned — is much more honourable , much more pleasurable artistically and much more important to the artistic world that a middleclass performance of , let's say , Rigoletto , in a small opera-house in Germany or Italy ? |
| 2 | And when children over-regularize their systems , how can they eventually get rid of the over-regularizations ? |
| 3 | Because if they kill him , how can they ever say that you 're not the real King ? |
| 4 | How can they possibly control such success ? |
| 5 | ‘ Companies ca n't tell you how many machines they have so how can they possibly protect them ? ’ said Ronald Berg , of the Scandia risk-management company in Sweden . |
| 6 | If researchers have absolutely no hunches at all about what they are going to find , how can they possibly know what questions to ask ? |
| 7 | If they ca n't even agree on that , how can they possibly agree on other , more important , things ? ’ |
| 8 | With that in mind , how can we reasonably leave it out of our picture of disease ? |
| 9 | For direct mail to be carried out cost effectively we must accurately find out who the customers are , what motivates them to buy , and how can we best reach them — in short , planning . |
| 10 | We have more houses than we have ever had , how can we yet have homelessness ? |
| 11 | We have more jobs than ever before , how can we yet have unemployment ? |
| 12 | ‘ How can we just throw in a lad who has not played for so long ? |
| 13 | But how can we even begin to prophesy occasionally ? |
| 14 | The lower classes — if we talk about upper and middle how can we not talk about lower ? — served tea , beer , gin and stodgy food , cut as often as not into hamfisted wedges , fit to fill the belly not the hand , and , understanding that the band was working for a living , treated it with respect and decorum . |
| 15 | How can we not fear them , and fearing them , how not hate them ? |
| 16 | How can we ever hope to make the sport clean when we treat offenders so leniently ? |
| 17 | If we allow multi-media to remain so shapeless and subjective , how can we ever hope to understand its implications for the information industry and the generations of information users who may ( or may not ) benefit from it ? |
| 18 | How can we ever speak again ? |
| 19 | How can we ever look up to Jane Fonda again ? |
| 20 | How can we actually articulate that sense of a broader vision ? |
| 21 | So back in nineteen eighty seven looked at the application models of client server and network computing and said , How can we better address the needs of client server ? |
| 22 | How can we safely cross into West Germany — assuming the alert has gone out by then ? ’ |
| 23 | So until we have fairly set out upon that road , how can we really hope to understand the inner beings of other creatures ? |
| 24 | How can we possibly retain that self-reliance and confidence if we become more and more a nation of programmed consumers , stuffed with the produce of an automated technology over which we feel we can have little influence ? |
| 25 | How can we possibly justify creating 7,000 additional children 's books each year ? |
| 26 | How can we possibly justify creating 7,000 additional children 's books each year ? |
| 27 | " Oh , Laurie , " ( to my father ) " how can we possibly leave them here ? |
| 28 | For musicians , the lure of the West must be strong , and for reasons as understandable as basic working conditions and standard of living , but as a result we stand at a crossroads : how can we possibly avoid the continuing standardization of orchestral , instrumental and vocal production , and continue to have the opportunity of hearing music played in a style and tradition for which it was probably originally conceived . |
| 29 | To begin with , how can we possibly know what we would really need if stricken by serious illness or accident perhaps many years later ? |
| 30 | So , if that is the case how can we possibly lose our identity because we have n't , we 're not , there 's no suggestion if we go on an inward journey , the inward journey must be within our selves , within our individuality , not , not jumping out into some form of spacial context . |