Example sentences of "[is] [Wh adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is how inertia operates and will continue to operate until the industrial co-operative sector has acquired enough mass and momentum to overcome it . |
| 2 | That is how mess gets made chucking that around like that . |
| 3 | More and more power in organizations is shared and cooperation rather than physical violence is how work gets done . |
| 4 | The sense is rather that this is how man 's lot came to be , and he should accept it . |
| 5 | this is interesting in the fact that this is how colour is ‘ described ’ to a person who has no vision whatever . |
| 6 | The question is how Sun , Taligent , IBM , HP and others would be able to accommodate each others ' technology under such an umbrella . |
| 7 | The question is how Sun , Taligent , IBM , Hewlett-Packard and others would be able to accommodate each others ' technology under such an umbrella . |
| 8 | An equally important issue to investigate is how stigmatization may be linked to the fear of being different . |
| 9 | That is how society was controlled in the early Middle Ages . |
| 10 | This is how history is made , thought Lydia despairingly . |
| 11 | Yet this is how crying in infants is sometimes interpreted : the child is being naughty ; naughtiness is punished ; smacking is how I was punished as a child ; so I smack my baby . |
| 12 | The really astonishing thing is how fiction and reality can blur . |
| 13 | What remains a mystery is how Virgin would have fared had its directors decided to weather the storms in the stock market . |
| 14 | What he then writes almost gives the impression of avoiding the confusion which I diagnosed above : ‘ This is how self-consciousness arises , the capacity to locate oneself within physical and social space … to know where one is and whom one is dealing with and what is expected of one ’ ( 47 ) . |
| 15 | A growing field of interest is how function develops during the growth of an animal from a single cell after fertilisation to the adult stage . |
| 16 | Hirsch 's formulation does not exclude the possibility of understanding literature in aesthetic terms , it merely prohibits us from claiming that this is how literature is , essentially , to be comprehended . |
| 17 | What stands out is how prosperity of this kind has spread to so many more people . |
| 18 | ‘ … soil geography is largely the study of the spatial variation of the interaction of environmental elements ; and this is how soil is made . ’ |
| 19 | This is how progress is made . |
| 20 | Also described is how expert systems can enhance human expertise and allow it to be used more efficiently in the specific working environment of aircraft maintenance . |
| 21 | That is how insurance works . |
| 22 | And that night of course in The Bar we were all saying , oh god when she jumps into the truck , how fabulous was that , it just makes you want to cheer ; and Boy thought again , well that is how life is , that is how I feel , that is how I feel when I 'm leaving the bar with my husband for the night , my husband-to-be , that 's just what I think when I 'm getting into his car , Goodbye Father , Goodbye . |
| 23 | And this in fact , not in theory , is how crime — the bloody evidence on the floor — and punishment — Raskolnikov 's agony — intertwine in the novel . |
| 24 | This is how Sunset form the Bridge , Abingdon was painted . |
| 25 | This is how Ovation do it , and it certainly means less hassle when it comes to changing strings . |
| 26 | What is crucial for learners to know is how grammar functions in alliance with words and contexts for the achievement of meaning . |
| 27 | These are a bit like pop-up books with foreground , middle ground and background to give perspective and , in movement , parallax , that is , near things apparently moving past each other in the foreground and middle ground while the background stands still , which is how motion is perceived in the real world seen from , say , a train . |
| 28 | So it was kept isolated in her consciousness and other , other ideas were n't allowed to touch it , and very often this is how repression works . |
| 29 | The concern here is how health care is supplied and paid for . |
| 30 | ‘ Small , intimate and European ’ is how owner Stephen Flannery describes the ambience of Bar 10 which opened last month . |