Example sentences of "[Wh adv] the [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Whenever the Prowler appears at car shows , Chrysler has a queue of people wanting to put down their deposits to buy one .
2 The technique used to train suppression of the interference is ‘ shadowing ’ , whereby the listener reproduces in speech word-for-word a source language message in that source language itself .
3 Instead , we rephrase the question and ask how the category operates in practice .
4 And that is how the passage appeared in volume form , in the editions of 1867 and 1870 .
5 It will examine how the law operates in practice , its consequences and the potential outcome of the legislation contained in the new ACt .
6 She was going to explain , too , how the milk came in glass bottles on a cart pulled by a brown horse , and how sometimes the horse left steaming heaps of brown , oval-shaped droppings in the road which people ran out to scoop up with coal shovels and take for their vegetable plots .
7 It is rather difficult to talk about human memory because we do n't know how the brain works in detail .
8 In this new mood where religion was more important than politics , he thought he would like to see how the Church went in East London , at that time notorious as a depressed urban area within the national life .
9 Their Lordships are both surprised and disappointed that , right up to the time when this appeal was heard by the Board , no information has been forthcoming to explain how the addendum came into existence and came to be typed , or whether this further statement was sought by the investigating authority or volunteered by the witness .
10 Nevertheless , the therapist should always deal with termination by finding out how the patient feels about treatment coming to an end .
11 How the club lies at address is important .
12 With regard to how the information appeared in practice , there appeared to be little potential for improvement , except where information or data was subject to routine processing .
13 Otmoor was notorious as a place in which to get lost , and verses celebrate how the curfew rung on winter nights from Charlton church guided travellers out of the intractable moor .
14 Where an old person is still to be seen at the centre of a web of relationships that extend down the generations and through the individual members to the community beyond it can be quite startling how the pleasure derived from life remains undiminished despite quite severe physical and material handicaps .
15 Brian Currie 's proposed amendment , that the PCD move in stages towards openness beginning with more comprehensive reporting — and taking further steps when the Institute has experience of how the reporting works in practice , received strong support .
16 Notice how the melody given in Example 8 , after four bars of ( almost ) adjacent notes , suddenly expands into more intense emotion with the octave leap and the temporary abandonment of stepwise motion : This shows leaps placed at the right psychological moment , when the intensity of a large leap is crucial to the emotional flow .
17 To support a Labour government for the sake of an illiberal reform would be difficult to explain in the first place ; and it would become more difficult still when people saw how the reform worked in practice .
18 I will let David Oldham know how the situation stands at present , and ask him to liaise directly with yourselves if this is appropriate .
19 The powerful place psychologists have in psychology , and the large part they play in deciding how the discipline deals with gender , has been recognized by egalitarian feminist psychologists .
20 A scientific law or theory should ideally give us some information about how the world does in fact behave , thereby ruling out ways in which it could ( logically ) possibly behave but in fact does not .
21 The creation myths explain how the world emerged from chaos , a world which to the Egyptian comprised a flat earth , a flat sky above it supported by air and an underworld below the earth through which the sun travelled at night .
22 It is , of course , vital to confirm that the information is as complete as possible — is there an older member who remembers how the group came into being ? ( assuming the present leader does not ) , and so on .
23 Minor amounts of vanadium were produced from the Alderley Edge copper mine in Cheshire where the element occurs in vanadinite ( Carlon , 1979 ) .
24 The jingle of ‘ fail-fall ’ echoes a famous crux in Macbeth , where the hero falters in front of his wife .
25 It was where the court gathered in summer , and those who followed royalty built many great houses in Tsarskoye Selo .
26 A young mother living in a damp flat with unheated bedrooms where the mould appears in charcoal blots across the wall , has a child who has suffered several bouts of pneumonia and now has chest convulsions .
27 TGAT 's second reason for a marking scale — ‘ establishing where the child stands in relation to others ’ — is at the root of the matter .
28 As soon as she gave up dancing in the line to supervise the school , her nubile appearance became plump as she enjoyed dining well , a pleasure shared with John where the plumpness developed into fatness .
29 He and his crew are searching for the Land Where the Sun Goes at Night .
30 Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud .
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