Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [Wh adv] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is an expert on how a low-calorie diet and exercise can beat cellulite and other weight problems . |
| 2 | The cube dependence is not a precise match with the 3.4 exponent obtained from viscosity measurements of long chains , but it is acceptable , particularly as the model gives a satisfactory picture of how a polymer chain can overcome the restraining influence of entanglements and move within the matrix . |
| 3 | In a hotel corridor , a very tall man in a vest , braces and crumpled suit is stooped next to a door , demonstrating that he has no more notion of how a Savoy room key works than your ordinary mortal . |
| 4 | Suddenly she came out through the last curtain of trees and found herself looking down over sunlit green meadowland to where a railway line wound like a serpent through a cutting at the foot . |
| 5 | I was fortunate , yet I can recall that during my earliest discussions there was considerable concern about how a consultant appointment committee might view part time training . |
| 6 | Mr Lozoraitis , 69 , an emigre and Lithuania 's ambassador in Washington , told a news conference that most of the new president 's team had no understanding of how a market economy worked . |
| 7 | He gives the traditional account of how a merchant ship was pillaged in the Red Sea and its crew and passengers massacred except for two boys who were brought to Ella Amida in Aksum . |
| 8 | Whether that story is a folk-tale , an account of how a motor car works , or the childhood of Mozart , it must be structured and it must be entertaining . |
| 9 | Turning to the controversy over where a world revolution could begin , Marx and Engels 's stress on the determination of political events by economic change and the historic role of the proletariat both strongly suggested that a socialist revolution would occur first in one of the most industrialized economies ( such as England , France or Germany ) where the organized working class was largest . |
| 10 | — A Brighton politician on why a college course on Margaret Thatcher failed to attract a single student . |