Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] [Wh adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change takes place only with cold water , a point worth remembering when preparing English mustard from powder . |
| 2 | Oxford Crown Court has jailed two men after hearing how drug squad detectives tracked them down during a trip to London . |
| 3 | To understand this process in more detail and to prepare the way for showing how money supply expands or contracts , we must examine the particular types of deposit and loan ( of liability and asset ) . |
| 4 | SEE-SAW DIAGNOSIS The see-saw is a good way of showing how weight transfer works . |
| 5 | The perpetuation of the old sources of strife goes a long way towards explaining why party conflict continued after the Glorious Revolution , which will be the theme of the following chapter . |
| 6 | Then is sometimes claimed to be necessarily anaphoric in nature , and to have no gestural deictic usage , but rather complex usages show this is not so — consider , for example , the following said pointing at a 1962 model Chevrolet ( Nunberg , 1978 : 33 ) ) : ( 55 ) I was just a kid then As an initial step towards seeing how time deixis interacts with cultural measurements of time in an absolute or non-deictic way , consider words like today , tomorrow , yesterday . |
| 7 | SCOTVEC has devoted a substantial amount of time to debating how staff development might proceed and set up an ad hoc group to undertake more detailed discussions . |