Example sentences of "[prep] how [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surface materials should be identified in terms of how they may be affected by chemical attack and the situation should identify any special problems , locations , and preferred methods of cleaning . |
| 2 | And he does not compare the questions themselves in respect of what lies behind them — making them ones which we can , or can not , easily ‘ see through ’ — or in respect of how they should be answered . |
| 3 | The whole scene demonstrates admirably Britten 's approach to words and his understanding of how they can be made vehicles , both for meanings which go beyond their own familiar significations , and for a special kind of music which comes , by some alchemy , from the combination of phonemes and notes . |
| 4 | There was a cutaway picture showing the inside of the familiar hemispherical dome of the reactor housing , a brief explanation of how it would be built and operated , and a map of the world to emphasize that , internationally , this was ‘ the most widely used ’ type of nuclear power plant . |
| 5 | Full employment would never have occupied the attention of the government to the extent it did had there not been pressure to give both a commitment and some explanation of how it would be honoured . |
| 6 | In the 1980s the government-funded Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) sponsored a scheme whereby the employer paid a percentage of the salary and costs of a partially disabled person 's employment in proportion to the individual 's assessed percentage contribution to the job in terms of how it would be performed by an average non-disabled person ; MSC paid the balance . |
| 7 | An example of how it can be used to derive an apparently more powerful law can be found at the end of section 2 . |
| 8 | It would be relatively simple — she could think at once of how it could be done : the casual enquiry of a mutual friend with whom she still exchanged Christmas cards , the phone call to the college at which he had been a lecturer . |
| 9 | Once Sheila was securely set towards the civil service as well , as if out of weakness or guilt Moran began courting her with vague , tentative offers ; if she were desperate to go to university they could still look into ways of how it could be managed and they would try to manage it somehow no matter how hard it was . |
| 10 | Even if the argument concerning whether semantic knowledge should be incorporated is upheld , there still remains the question of how it should be incorporated . |
| 11 | Once a large amount of data has been collected , the question arises of how it should be analysed , and it is understandable if investigators faced with many hours of tape-recorded conversation feel a little daunted . |
| 12 | This kitchen extension is an excellent example of how it should be done : it looks as if it was built at the same time as the rest of the house |
| 13 | I 'll pin Harry Prosser 's great picture on my front door to give our old postman the idea of how it should be done . |
| 14 | It is generally agreed that Haydn was the father of the string quartet , and he set the highest standards : the quartets of Beethoven and Schubert could hardly have been written without his brilliant examples of how it should be done . |
| 15 | Poor Madame Moulton found that Princess Metternich had acquired a quantity of corn on the cob which she had persuaded the Empress to have cooked and served so that Mme Moulton could give a demonstration of how it should be eaten . |
| 16 | It is a commentary upon the action on that occasion , dealing with the problem of how it should be interpreted , speculating on the motives , intentions and characters of those involved , and generally offering some kind of criticism and justification of whatever are taken to be the goings-on . |
| 17 | Consequently , it is suggested that private citizens have difficulty with the forms , both in understanding what they say and in how they should be filled in , and with the hearings , which can be legalistic . |
| 18 | However , the charge is often returned by environmentalists who note how much farmers pride themselves on being ‘ stewards ’ of the English countryside for the benefit of future generations and for the nation at large , but then deny the right of anyone else to have a say in how it should be maintained for them . |
| 19 | This is not to say that R&D should not think in terms of processes that do not currently exist , but it emphasizes the need for discussion and agreement on how they shall be provided , in time for them to be in place when they are needed . |
| 20 | An estimate of the total operating costs of the tax ( administrative plus compliance costs ) , and recommendations on how they may be reduced are being made . |
| 21 | Harrison spent much time visiting other clinics up and down the country advising on how they might be run more efficiently . |
| 22 | Could you look over the guidelines in relation to this particular interest and give me your thought on how they might be improved for application in the Lothians . |
| 23 | John Chadwick , QC , counsel for four of the banks which stand to lose millions of pounds should the deals be ruled void , said enforceability depends on how they might be judged unlawful . |
| 24 | The fifth point says : ’ There must be detailed negotiations on how we would be affected by the detailed introduction of new commodity support arrangements . ’ |
| 25 | MacDonald , Glasier and others did attempt to develop an organic view of society which denied justice to its working class , and provide guidance on how it might be transformed in order better to integrate the class into a corporate whole . |
| 26 | The Treasury , which is responsible for the new insider dealing legislation , has promised to issue guidance notes on how it will be interpreted . |
| 27 | able to comment on how it should be operated . |
| 28 | A chap who had slept rough for more than 20 years was invited to offer ideas on how it should be run . |
| 29 | After her veto of the Alvey committee 's plans to use government money to back a new era of computer research ( last issue , p 3 ) , ministers have now postponed publication of their White Paper on cabling Britain because two government departments can not agree on how it should be paid for . |
| 30 | The estimated cost of £22,000 provoked considerable discussion on how it should be financed , for many members felt increasingly perturbed about personally improving an investment which belonged to others , namely the bondholders . |