Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [to-vb] [Wh adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The polish chief negotiator has demanded to know why the Community has such problems adjusting to the ViĊĦegrad states when it accounts for 56 per cent of their trade and they for 1 per cent of its trade . |
| 2 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 3 | Now that the sun had come out , many of the spectators had stayed to see how the celebrities would perform after the fireworks of the professionals . |
| 4 | She also suggested that Mr. Sedley , in his argument on behalf of the Bar Council , had failed to explain how the Inns could discipline someone , for example by reprimand or fine , without disbarring them . |
| 5 | Over the past chapters , I have sought to show how the combination of broken homes , disturbed domestic backgrounds and lack of a full understanding of the needs and implications of formal education create a family environment unsuited to the requirements of black youth in British education . |
| 6 | Patterson and his colleagues ( 1975 ) have worked extensively with aggressive children and their families and have tried to explain how the interaction becomes progressively more violent . |
| 7 | There has not been space to say much about the flight from generality in the world outside mind , but I have tried to show how the attempts to flee generality within the mind and to abandon or reduce consciousness must both fail . |
| 8 | Various Marxist-based studies have aimed to demonstrate how the law reflects economic interests , viewing the legal system as an instrument that supports the interests of the dominant class against threatening or disruptive behaviour . |
| 9 | But inquiries throughout the region have failed to identify where the ties were stolen from . |