Example sentences of "[adv] [Wh adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So how do a young couple like Geoffrey and Elaine Springer , with three children under 10 , come to be living in that exclusive locality … in a home valued at £800,000 ? |
| 2 | ‘ So how come a nice girl like you is trailing the streets of London beating up strangers under an assumed name ? ’ |
| 3 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 4 | And I accept that he might have been upset but there are no polemics , so why destroy a great victory ? |
| 5 | To answer that immediate need , the British government has been agonising over how to offer a single tranche of passports , perhaps 100,000 , to Hong Kong , in such a way as to target recipients whom it believes play vital roles in the public and private sector . |
| 6 | If you 're going to strip a house anyway why do a neat job on the lock first ? |
| 7 | It gave her great satisfaction that after a couple of months she proved as expert as Ferdinando , learning rapidly how to drive a hard bargain . |
| 8 | Aside from integration difficulties , OSF has also been bogged down trying to figure out how to implement a standard version of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture ( Corba ) , a mechanism for managing objects across distributed systems . |
| 9 | Aside from integration difficulties , the Open Software Foundation has also been bogged down trying to figure out how to implement a standard version of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture mechanism for managing objects across distributed systems . |
| 10 | Bergman knows how to turn a sardonic one-liner or two , but not really how to pace a whole film ; the self-consciously wacky plot never quite clicks . |
| 11 | I seriously felt that I had lost my ‘ commercial sense ’ that I had before , and that I would never remember the intricacies of the High Court Rules , how to draft Court Pleadings or even how to write a sensible letter . |