Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [Wh adv] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide .
2 There were no indications that the original hypothesis was incorrect ( ie that the information requirements of an organisation could be derived by the progressive decomposition of a primary task model ) , and the study entered the next phase of deciding how the information base could be used in practice .
3 When you find the area of the library in which the class number of your book is located , do not immediately look for it , but try to locate the range of shelving where the class number can be found on the spines of the books .
4 There are also difficulties in seeing how the Theft Act offences relate to civil law concepts , such as restitution , on which they are based .
5 The factor that may be decisive in explaining why the oil industry produced in west Thurso so great and prolonged an excess at ages 5–24 is the large number of incomers already associated with the nuclear industry .
6 These networks are at the heart of policy-making in the United States and are even important in understanding how the US president makes appointments to senior levels in the Federal government .
7 All the even-toed ungulates share certain characteristics , which are important in understanding how the mountain goat has managed to adapt to the particularly inhospitable environment in which it lives .
8 However , there is also much interest , particularly in connection with how stability theory and transition to turbulence are related , in knowing how a convection pattern without these defects evolves .
9 The government should be devoting more time to considering how the wartime counter-inflation policy could be continued in peacetime .
10 They begin by explaining how the spectrum keyboard works .
11 Thus by considering how the vector representation of ( ) changes in the s-plane diagram as ο varies , the frequency dependences of both the magnitude and phase of G ( ο); can be visualised .
12 It considers the various pension reforms aimed at breaking the link between poverty and old age , and concludes by examining how the Thatcher Government 's scaling down of SERPS ( the State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme ) will ensure that today 's underclass take their poverty into old age .
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