Example sentences of "how [pron] can [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I ca n't understand how someone can work that way . ’ |
2 | ‘ You still have n't said how I can have two mothers , Nanny , ’ Artemis persisted , raising her voice and attracting the attention of a red-faced man at the main table . |
3 | Tricia describes how you can make simple exercises more effective and progressively more difficult . |
4 | This section is concerned with how you can achieve that expansion . |
5 | It 's , it 's erm I think it 's quite interesting cos it 's a different style , in a sense it 's just setting out some goals that they want to achieve but not really giving any clear instruction of how you can achieve those goals . |
6 | Bring them in , show that you 've actually thought more generally and you can see how you can bring different parts of the syllabus in because that 's the novelty , that 's what makes a piece of work stand out . |
7 | I just do n't know how you can finish that title now . |
8 | I do n't know how you can swallow that bugger ! |
9 | That 's how you can differentiate one sample of putty from another . " |
10 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
11 | If so , say how you see retirement as affecting you , and try to discuss how you can organise more time together , balanced with time spent on independent interests . |
12 | You may have worries about whether the patient can return to work , or how you can plan future holidays for yourself or the family . |
13 | ‘ The song is about the power of the mind , how you can take two people and do the same thing to both of them . |
14 | And I think that for me , having learnt quite a bit about these differences , I find what I want to do now is go forward to see how we can build some sort of unity and on what basis and whether in fact that is required . |
15 | ’ Yes , you do , and so do I. So we have to figure out who 's after us and how we can avoid another attack . ’ |
16 | She will talk about how we can give better support to people with hearing disabilities . |
17 | I do not know how we can make that judgment until we have seen the texture of the decision that we are being asked to make . |
18 | We ask how we can make environmental objectives tie in with business objectives — which means profit . |
19 | The conference management board is actively considering the format and promotion of next year 's event and how we can attract more support from the profession . |
20 | Notice how we can perform this calculation using 4-quarter moving totals , e.g. |
21 | We must seriously examine how we can involve such membership in the decision making of the Union and carry them with us through change . |
22 | Erm and how we can speak to time and how we can control that time and make sure that even with interruptions which is what in a way what a meeting is about a discussion , that we 're able to stick to the time that we 've allocated for the particular meeting or presentation that we 've got . |
23 | Truth is covered up , buried , and he comes and unburies the truth or rather shows us how we can unbury that truth within ourselves , shows us the tools we must use . |
24 | Our priority must now be to consider anew not only the proliferation of nuclear weapons but how we can reverse that trend , which is so at odds with the end of the cold war . |
25 | In the former , Stuart hints at how we can compare Pleistocene species with living species , but some more details are necessary , and certainly references to one or two works on statistical morphometric techniques . |
26 | Right , I 'm going to go through methods of how we can detect structural change by the non constant parameters . |
27 | There 's a whole range of things from the Foreign Office downwards where they have made mistakes costing many millions of pounds and we shall certainly be wanting to take evidence from this area of activity just to see what went wrong and how it can be put right and how we can prevent this sort of thing happening in the future . ’ |
28 | All this , I argued , is at least suggestive about how we can have some form of access to the superficial form , say of our walking ( i.e. to the gross sequence of movements , if not to the nerves ) , and can impose a new walking ‘ strategy ’ to which we will then in due course ( after an analogue of compilation ) again lose access . |
29 | A justification for talk of abstract ideas is that it provides an explanation of how our thought and knowledge can be general ; ‘ how we can know any proposition to be true of all particular triangles , except we have first seen it demonstrated of the abstract idea of a triangle . ’ |
30 | Its interest , as will already be clear , is that it offers a prospect of closing the gap between fact and value , bypassing the issue of whether or how one can draw prescriptive conclusions from descriptive premisses alone : it affirms the apparently naive claim that to know how to act I have only to be sufficiently aware of myself and my surroundings . |