Example sentences of "how could we [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could we sign our own modest names after that high-powered lot ? |
| 2 | How could we abandon you ? |
| 3 | GILLIAN said how could we separate the two , because where did grammar come from if not from grammarians , and almost all grammarians — probably every single one of them for all she knew — were men , so what did we expect ; but mainly she was talking common sense . |
| 4 | How could we check if it is actually ninety and we 've got it wrong . |
| 5 | How could we check if that was if that 's really supposed to be ninety and we 've and the drawing 's not quite right . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | How could we hope to detect a black hole , as by its very definition it does not emit any light ? |
| 8 | If the prohibitory norm is to be part of the ‘ extended phenotype ’ of the species , how could we conceive , starting from an inhibition , that this should come about ? |
| 9 | How could we change them ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ How could we show them ? ’ |
| 11 | How could we decide whether it had free will or was just a robot , programmed to respond as if it were like us ? |
| 12 | How could we explain that ? |
| 13 | How could we set her aside ? |
| 14 | How could we settle whether or not the horizontal moon actually does present a larger appearance ? |
| 15 | Mark : ‘ How could we do that ? ’ |
| 16 | How could we beat them ? |
| 17 | But how could we ensure that complexity and mystery were the only qualitative differences between the various skylines ? |
| 18 | So how could we refuse . |
| 19 | How could we hold our heads up , having never |
| 20 | If we were in bed together , how could we go down , seize Brampton , take him up to that garret and hang him ? |
| 21 | Anyway , how could we find these other nomes ? ’ |
| 22 | But how could we believe that health and education could be the main players in achieving these targets ? |
| 23 | ‘ How could we have known ? ’ |
| 24 | How could we have guessed 10 years ago that there would be a video shop on every street corner ? |
| 25 | How could we have guessed that there was an enormous and developing business in entertainment of a new kind , with a range of information technology and machinery ? |
| 26 | How could we have got it so wrong ? |
| 27 | ‘ I was equally unhappy — how could we have let our pride and injured dignity keep us apart for so long ? |
| 28 | How could we use this what are the benefits of doing this or the disadvantages of doing this so that you 've got people within the group who could as a plant and know what to do with those ideas he comes up with them or she comes up with them do n't know what to do with them just comes up it 's up to the rest of the group and monitor evaluate you know the person that 's always putting things that never work . |
| 29 | It is the two hundred and twenty five , but how could we calculate that from just looking at , if they just told us and you did n't use the protractor . |
| 30 | How could we escape from this vice ? |