Example sentences of "and [Wh adv] it [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 2 | As the train approached Wolverhampton , Powell the historian told me about the foundation of the town in the 10th century and how it grew to prosperity making weapons for the Civil War . |
| 3 | A photographer has to really be aware of this , and how light relates to colour and how it relates to black and white . |
| 4 | The pupils concentrated on the science of light and colour , and how it related to art . |
| 5 | The answers should have important implications for understanding how the normal nervous system develops and functions and how it responds to injury and disease . |
| 6 | Hilton sums up the whole process as he has defined it in Book One through the two images of sin and Christ with a quotation from Galatians 4:19 : Scale 1 , then , maps the whole area of the contemplative life and shows it may be accessed through inner participation in the truth revealed at the Incarnation : Most of the book , however , is occupied with the effort to clarify the process by which the reformation to the likeness of Jesus in his manhood may be begun , the experience of this likeness in the reformed " " of the soul and how it leads to contemplation of the Godhead is not explored in any fullness although it is present as a stated goal . |
| 7 | Some might be worrying about their dancing and how it looks to onlookers , others might be worried about their partner 's nervous shuffling from foot to foot — what will people be thinking ? |