Example sentences of "[prep] how [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main problem was to determine after how many synodic revolutions , or reappearances of Venus as ‘ the morning star ’ , this phenomenon would recur on 1 Ahau . |
| 2 | He died in 1968 after how many years as an MP ( five years either side allowed ) ? |
| 3 | ‘ But to be honest , I am a bit surprised there has n't been more interest considering how many I am scoring . |
| 4 | Pinkie sucked in his drink in a curious manner , very curious considering how many gins lie must have in the course of the week , as though his glass was a blowhole in Arctic ice and to drink was his only hope of survival . |
| 5 | The White Paper gives no indication of how such care will be planned and budgeted for , and there is an urgent need to consider this aspect of health service provision . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is not possible to produce Peter Shaffer 's 1964 play about the conquest of Peru in a way that is informed by our subsequently increased awareness of how such representation works . |
| 7 | But this implies that the world is an entity other than God and God has given it freedom and thus the possibility of ‘ going wrong ’ , of producing evil , sin , pain and suffering , whatever explanation we may try to give of how such things have come about — at least they are only too obvious in the world we know . |
| 8 | Thus , despite widespread support for a National Government , there was little idea of how such a government might be brought about ; and little support for it among those who really mattered . |
| 9 | Though our more recent notion of a developed science , such as physics or chemistry , is directly descended from this , our conception of how such sciences come about , and the methods of investigation appropriate to them , differs in certain important respects from that of the Aristotelians . |
| 10 | The problem of the origin of species is thus the problem of how such isolating mechanisms arose . |
| 11 | Leaving aside the question of how such a perfect and whole symbiotic relationship could have ever evolved , Darwinian-style and piecemeal , out of ‘ random fluctuations in the DNA of wasp and orchid ’ , we are left with the interesting observation that the mind structure , or instinct , of the wasp is organized in such a way that it instinctively seeks this particular shape , for the purposes of fulfilling its urge to mate . |
| 12 | This implies that , while the services which are undertaking may provide are subject to its home country rules ( often referred to as ‘ home country financial technique ’ ) , the question of how such services should be carried out ( conduct of business rules ) will be subject to the host country rules . |
| 13 | There are a number of reasons for this and Malina is aware of how such phenomena as poverty , crowded home conditions and poor diet can affect physical performances . |
| 14 | In contrast , classical game theory supposes rational players , and seeks a solution in terms of how such players would behave . |
| 15 | The quest for identifiable crime-prone personality types has included learning theorists as well as heredity theorists , psychoanalysts ( ‘ anti-social ’ or ‘ affectionless ’ personality theories ) , and studies not concerning themselves with the question of how such types come about . |
| 16 | Interactionists made much of how such variations could lead to a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ : if the public ( informed by the media of rises in the criminal statistics ) believes crime to be on the increase and more of a problem they may be more sensitive to it , report more to the police who will then record more and therefore produce a further rise in recorded crime , which is then fed back to the public by the media , and so on ( see Wilkins , 1964 ; and Young , 1971 ) . |
| 17 | The details of how such intentions could be realized would be left to local joint planning and financing at the district level : ‘ any proposal to move the balance of care from hospital to community should come from the local level ’ . |
| 18 | This is not enough , for it is also necessary to ‘ think these differences in rhythm and punctuation in their foundation , in their type of articulation , displacement and torsion which harmonizes these different times with one another ’ — though it must be added that this begs the question of how such harmonization is achieved . |
| 19 | The story of how such a principle was accepted by a war-time coalition government and why it was implemented in the form that it was in advance of all the other social security changes , is a useful illustration of the ways in which particular problems gain the attention of governments and how one social policy can be seen and adopted as at least a partial solution to those problems . |
| 20 | This is hardly an optimistic conclusion either , since the problem remains of how such equality is to be created if not by elected government itself . |
| 21 | Timber houses of several different periods and cultures have been reconstructed in various experiments , leading to a much better understanding of how such buildings were originally built . |
| 22 | Cast ells was particularly weak on the question of how such contradictions were translated into social action . |
| 23 | In 4 we saw how successful participation in discourses — whether in formal , institutionalized discourses like school lessons or informal discourses like conversations — depends upon pre-existent knowledge of how such events are likely to proceed and what sort of behaviour is appropriate at any point . |
| 24 | These divergent states are often subjectively perceived as having distinctive characteristics that mark them out as discrete varieties : people can recognize regional varieties such as ‘ Birmingham ’ English , ‘ Yorkshire ’ English and so on , and they often have a fairly clear idea of how such varieties are distinguished from one another . |
| 25 | While sharing these basic features with the concept of objectification , both authors also provide a grounding in particular mechanisms which provide exemplification of how such processes may operate . |
| 26 | Or rather , why was it chosen ? — for we know nothing of how such a choice was made in Greece . |
| 27 | Very little is available in the way of describing the types of texts available in , say , Chinese or Spanish , or of how such texts are organized . |
| 28 | From his discussion of how such isolated clans as the Macraes , in such hollows of the world as Auchnasheal , repel all boarders , Johnson opens up a discussion of how mankind in this condition regulates itself . |
| 29 | Until such a system has been produced the question of how such systems should integrate with syntactic processing remains very much within the area of theoretical linguistics . |
| 30 | There is something shamanistic about New Historicist writing : the critic as one who is able to uncover energies within Renaissance writing not immediately apparent to the reader but whose tribal secrets of how such energies are located are not readily revealed . |