Example sentences of "is [Wh adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he said ( through the journal of his grandfather ) ‘ I will never be free from this old tyranny : I believe with a perfect faith … ’ ( which is how the statement of faith called the 13 creeds begins ) . |
| 2 | Briefly , it is how the composer , like the author of a sentence or of a line in a poem , groups his ‘ words ’ in order of importance so that they make sense . |
| 3 | And that is how the passage appeared in volume form , in the editions of 1867 and 1870 . |
| 4 | This , in the blood and bone of the novel , is how the doubleness — the two levels — appears , in which all is destined and anything can happen . |
| 5 | And that is how the body of the novel leaves the matter . |
| 6 | Part of the power of cad is how the powerful graphics capabilities can give a friendly solidness to engineering drawings . |
| 7 | Cobbled streets with gabled houses are criss-crossed by a network of tree-lined waterways linked by more than 50 arched bridges ( which is how the city got is name ) . |
| 8 | Another mystery is how the yacht drifted north-west when prevailing conditions would normally have sent it towards South America . |
| 9 | False consciousness is usually referred to by Marx by the term ‘ ideology ’ and that is how the word will be used in this book . |
| 10 | This is how the Autocar & Motor How Fast , How Good data has been derived : 30–70mph indicates overtaking ability and is measured through the gears ; 30–50mph is recorded in top gear ( or fourth in the case of five-speed manual gearbox models ) ; 50–70 mph is recorded in top . |
| 11 | Which is how the type 56 , the car with the upswept stack-pipes came into being . |
| 12 | This is how the Autocar & Motor How Fast , How Good data has been derived : 30–70mph indicates overtaking ability and is measured in top gear ( or fourth in the case of five-speed manual gearboxes ) ; 50–70mph is recorded in top . |
| 13 | Whilst their presence does not prove that this is how the light/dark cycle normally adjusts the clock , it does seem to make it a very reasonable working hypothesis . |
| 14 | This is how the record companies want it , because if one act inexplicably runs out of steam it 's no problem to find another . |
| 15 | This is how the argument will be fought . |
| 16 | ‘ Inadequate , distant , even indifferent ’ is how the Community 's ambassador in Tokyo , Jean-Pierre Leng , describes their relations . |
| 17 | ‘ That , as the Americans say , ’ Mark told her wryly , ‘ is how the cookie crumbles . |
| 18 | That is how the people began their great song of triumph after the crossing of the sea . |
| 19 | This is how the polyanthus originated . |
| 20 | Which is how the Great and Good have always seen their role . |
| 21 | The greatest flower show in the world is how the organisers describe the result of their 10 years planning and planting — and rightly so . |
| 22 | What I want to examine in detail is how the interactional structure of any particular dramatic episode provides the dynamics of a game experience . |
| 23 | That is how the subjects ' reasons figure in the justification , both when they are correctly reflected in a particular directive and when they are not . |
| 24 | Here , for example , is how the American journalist I. F. Stone describes the last hours of his voyage to Haifa , aboard a Turkish refugee ship called the Akbel , a listing hulk carrying hundreds of concentration camp survivors on their journey to Palestine . |
| 25 | How the House is televised is important ; far more important is how the House is broadcast — the use the broadcasters make of the clean feed they are given . |
| 26 | In its original , human , version , here is how the game is played . |
| 27 | Although it may seem odd to call a jail sentence a ‘ reward ’ , that is how the men would see it if the alternative was a longer spell behind bars . |
| 28 | This is how the physiotherapist directs the recovery of the central nervous system . |
| 29 | To a town dweller the silence is eerie — so this is how the wilderness felt to the early explorers and settlers . |
| 30 | Very much less well understood is how the genes control embryonic development . |