Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The issue of whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned is also a question of judgement , and it would be somewhat unusual for a court erm perhaps erm months later to go against the policeman 's view , a view formed in the heat of the moment , where he had a firsthand erm taste of what was going on .
2 His acknowledgement is thoroughly deserved considering how the ex-Arsenal and Coventry boss has transferred his passion for the game into a Chelsea side , which is a delightful mixture of kids like Eddie Newton and Frank Sinclair and mature professionals such as Andy Townsend and Mick Harford .
3 One story of how a local university academic had come into the police station to report his car missing , because he had forgotten where he had parked it , was repeated with relish ; while another which I told on my return from university satisfied these deeply held views of the ‘ intellectual 's ’ practical ineptitude :
4 In the spring a story appeared in The Observer under the headline ‘ Power-drill rock climbers accused of vandalism ’ , of how a minority were threatening the relationship between landowners and climbers as a whole .
5 ( The sad story of how a new dog harness snapped and Putzie the Yorkie was run over and later died — Ed )
6 Such declarations are of little intrinsic importance but they tell us something of how a politician sees the world and his own place in it .
7 Through his efforts in this direction he effectively mocks much that is dear to scholars , historians , literary critics and art historians , especially the concept of a clear chronological sequence : his answer to the problem of how a Mexican can ‘ belong ’ to the dynasty of European art is , as it were , to invade it retrospectively .
8 He described his 1924 film Reveille , an episodic account of how a group of humble people had been affected by the war , as ‘ a scrapbook of pictures of life caught in the living , no hero , no villain , no plot , no tying up of loose threads . ’
9 The scientist who threatens to blow up London in the film John Boulting directed for Korda , Seven Days to Noon ( 1950 ) , does so in order that the whole world will be made aware of how a scientific dream had been corrupted .
10 On one level Affliction is the story of how a man named Wade Whitehouse , living in a New Hampshire milltown , comes to be a murderer .
11 Begin again , distant and spare , a clinical account of how a man — an economist — encountered a beautiful brown woman , the one hundred and fifty-sixth prostitute to spread herself with simulated murmurs and greedy eyes beneath his unslaked loins .
12 Many girls spoke to me of how a fear of being raped or ‘ hassled ’ affected the way they dressed and how they felt about their looks and bodies .
13 He tells them of a tale he has heard , of how a monster called Grendel has killed many of Earl Hrothgar 's people .
14 We want Britain to be an example to the world of how a free people can make the very best of their destiny .
15 But when it comes to the issue of how a given physical stimulus is actually perceived , we have chosen to represent this in terms of the central representational elements that it activates .
16 He thought often , in his dim place , of how a man becomes his job .
17 You 're my ideal of how a man should be … ’
18 At first sight this might all look very technical , but it is really fairly simple , and an understanding of the theory of how a board works will help you to progress beyond a beginner 's level .
19 If you have a mental picture of how a castle should look , then Framlingham Castle will turn your imagination into reality .
20 A fly ball , I take it , is the baseball equivalent of a skier in cricket , so the problem of how a fielder knows where to go , where to place his hands to catch , it is the same .
21 The only serious flaw is his use of BASIC to provide examples of how a programming language works .
22 Kitcher gives a good example of how a theory becomes accepted by the generality of scientists : Alfred Wegener 's theory of continental drift achieved acceptance after half a century of intermittent discussion only when the concept of plate tectonics provided an acceptable mechanism .
23 I did some composing in my early years , so I have gained some modest experience of how a piece should hang together , and how it should be carried from the first note to the last .
24 To understand the behaviour it is essential to consider the question of how a cat faces death .
25 Whether that story is a folk-tale , an account of how a motor car works , or the childhood of Mozart , it must be structured and it must be entertaining .
26 We would give much for a few case histories , like that of the fourteenth-century merchant of Prato , of how a medieval household actually worked .
27 Such communications may clearly show signs of similarity to our own human allocation of emotions and feelings — anger , affection , dominance and so on — but of how a chimpanzee actually feels anger , we have little comprehension .
28 No doubt this is all a part of nature 's design to keep the community together , but of how a chimpanzee 's inner mind is structured , and of how they feel , we have little notion .
29 Accordingly , a further demonstration project was selected in Delft to gain some understanding of how a coherent bicycle network could actually operate .
30 Here are three examples of how a change of thinking can save you from making high scores .
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