Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [Wh adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He falls back on the popular device for explaining why the working class fail to live up to what is expected of them — they are reduced to mindless automatons , responding only to right-wing media messages . |
| 2 | a method of binding where the folded pages are stitched through the spine from the outside , using wire staples . |
| 3 | It is an additional pleasure to recognise his prophetic power of divining where the best art was to be found . |
| 4 | Although Sollas referred to natural selection , he elsewhere ridiculed Darwin 's theory as incapable of explaining how the higher types were actually produced . |
| 5 | The ethnography was a means of observing how the wider patterns of society — its inequalities and histories of domination — flow through patterns of living and thinking which seem so ordinary . |
| 6 | It 's really a question of knowing where the raw materials are coming from , where the product comes from and what the conditions are like there , but , of course it 's all very well saying it 's a question of what but er how many people involved are going to know that ? |
| 7 | Is n't there an argument , and perhaps I am st getting now onto two , matter two , that says from Hambledon 's point of view , what has just been said is compelling , is a compelling argument in favour of identifying where the new settlement should go , because that will , at the same time , identify where it should not go ? |
| 8 | I am struck by the pervasiveness of assumptions of genre in writing and thinking about television , and by the simultaneous difficulty of identifying where the theoretical groundings of these assumptions lie . |
| 9 | This was explicitly recognized by the early twentieth century physiologists who saw their fundamental task as that of discovering how the infinite variety of the perceived world could be reflected in , or reconstructed in , the rather monotonous nervous system . |
| 10 | The ‘ fan out ’ of possible paths from highly rated , but incorrect word hypotheses is considerable , and we have no easy way of telling when the correct hypothesis has been reached . |
| 11 | Call it a rites-of-passage novel , a coming-of-age novel or a coming-out novel , it is usually a writer 's way of exploring how the early years can irritate to life the otherwise dormant sensitivities that produce the itch to write fiction . |
| 12 | Bayezid writes , ‘ We enjoyed the greatest pleasure in seeing how the severed heads of the Christian dukes rolled under the horses ’ hooves , and how many of them with tied hands , and others with broken legs , stood by . ’ |
| 13 | Add to this cost the growth in government expenditure , and we are a long way in explaining why the real value of the tax threshold , or the level of income at which tax begins to be paid , has fallen during the post-war period . |
| 14 | So , it is not the country of domicile of economic institutions or the classes that dominate them that is the primary consideration in explaining how the global system works , but rather the structural locations of institutions and classes in the global capitalist system . |
| 15 | Constitutional theory , in explaining how the various institutions of the state work together and in offering a particular theory of representation connecting state to society , seeks to provide us with answers to large and profound questions about who governs and how ; about who should govern and how ; and about the respective rights of people and the privileges of property in British politics . |
| 16 | A form of writing that deals with the historical evolution of the landscape can be recommended to anyone interested in understanding why the English landscape looks as it does . |
| 17 | The skill of the marketing manager therefore lies in understanding how the four categories of the Marketing Mix interact , and in being able to combine them in the most cost-effective manner such that the company 's marketing objectives are satisfactorily achieved . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the justice ministry said yesterday that it had barred a judge from investigating how the prime minister , Pierre Beregovoy , came to receive an interest-free loan in 1986 from a financier later charged with insider trading . |
| 19 | Physical injury was frequent , not only in notoriously dangerous places like mines , where gas explosions added to the threat of rock falls , gun powder mishaps and shaft falls , but in grinding where the huge wheels sometimes shattered into flying slivers . |
| 20 | Blacks , gays , lesbians , the disabled and other disadvantaged people — all could join in demonstrating how the new thinking could be combined with commercial success . |
| 21 | For example , the physical length of words lying to the right of the reader 's current fixation , plays an important role in determining where the next fixation will fall . |
| 22 | This experiment is interesting in highlighting how the subjective experience of sleepiness is not necessarily reflected in performance measures , and more importantly in demonstrating some permanent change in the sleep patterns of the group of six " normal " sleepers . |
| 23 | I believe the solution lies in identifying why the wrong dogs come into the hands of the wrong people . |
| 24 | The following may be regarded as the main factors for determining where the general administration of a trust is carried on : 1 . |
| 25 | Those who sell dogs in the first place have a great deal to answer for when it comes to explaining why the human-dog relationship is so often a disastrous mismatch . |
| 26 | This goes some way to explaining why the complicated campaigns within Toulouse in the second half of the century were largely fought out under the banners of the Angevin , Aragonese , and French kings ; and why the revolts of Henry II 's sons had widespread ramifications . |
| 27 | It might also be suggested that for officers of an LEA to concentrate time and resources on prescribing how the physical arrangements of classrooms should be attended to represents a rather demeaning view of teachers and heads , whose proper concern such matters undoubtedly are . |
| 28 | After the therapist has introduced him/herself , explaining something about their profession , and the actual referral process , they might continue by explaining how the first session will proceed . |
| 29 | One of the main questions that the following chapters try to address is how these pressures fed through into changes in industrial relations strategies and practices in the enterprises.The rest of this chapter lays the groundwork for this examination by considering how the general relationship between public enterprise and the state has evolved under the pressures of ‘ commercialism ’ . |
| 30 | Try to round off your answer by demonstrating how the old job has fitted you to take on the job you are applying for . |