Example sentences of "how could [pron] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could they be transmitted unchanged to future generations ? |
| 2 | How could they be tied to Hong Kong as a condition of receipt ? |
| 3 | ‘ But surely — how could we be thought responsible , if the food or wine were poisoned ? ’ |
| 4 | As this was the first time this had happened , how could we be expected to know in advance ? |
| 5 | How could one be expected even to talk to such fellows , much less to enter into negotiation with them ? |
| 6 | How could she be expected to remain calm ? |
| 7 | How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ? |
| 8 | It would be appalling to have a crazy wife , but if you also felt sorry for her , how could you be expected to cope ? |
| 9 | How could you be bothered with cricket when there was golf — a universal , classless and very cheap obsession in Troon , Ayrshire , scene of my upbringing . |
| 10 | How could he be expected to love anyone like that ? |
| 11 | What problems do they present for the Sinclair and Coulthard coding system and how could it be adjusted to cope with them ? |
| 12 | And so how could it be poisoned ? ’ |
| 13 | But it was too sweet , Léonie thought : how could it be called dying , most intensively living more like . |
| 14 | Oppressed me — how could it be moved ? |
| 15 | The novels that have moved me most ( Tillie Olsen 's Yonnondio , F. M. Mayor 's The Rector 's Daughter , Alice Walker 's The Colour Purple ) leave me with the impression that a miracle has happened — a ‘ How could it be done ? |
| 16 | Richard evidently felt that memory must keep to its place , otherwise how could it be measured accurately ? |