Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [Wh adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | India is the home of this strongly aromatic plant where it is perennial , and where its history of use stretches back many thousands of years , It is regarded as sacred by the Hindus and was much used for disinfecting where malaria was present In the house . |
| 2 | Figure 3.1 offers a possible starting-point for explaining why science has for many people ruled out religion . |
| 3 | In this case , instead of accepting that comprehensible input is indeed validly conceived as ‘ The ‘ Fundamental Pedagogical Principle ’ ’ and then looking at how it might be achieved by interaction , one might more profitably ask whether these strategies of interaction on the part of the learner do not suggest that the notion of comprehensible input is inadequate for explaining how language is learned , and therefore is not so very fundamental after all . |
| 4 | second , that through understanding how talk works we can choose to play high or low status as appropriate . |
| 5 | The title is aimed at 8 to 12 year olds and uses the garden or the park as an observation ground for understanding how nature works . |
| 6 | Oxford Crown Court has jailed two men after hearing how drug squad detectives tracked them down during a trip to London . |
| 7 | There are , however , several small points worth remembering when eating either at home or in a restaurant with older people . |
| 8 | The change takes place only with cold water , a point worth remembering when preparing English mustard from powder . |
| 9 | Then is sometimes claimed to be necessarily anaphoric in nature , and to have no gestural deictic usage , but rather complex usages show this is not so — consider , for example , the following said pointing at a 1962 model Chevrolet ( Nunberg , 1978 : 33 ) ) : ( 55 ) I was just a kid then As an initial step towards seeing how time deixis interacts with cultural measurements of time in an absolute or non-deictic way , consider words like today , tomorrow , yesterday . |
| 10 | The perpetuation of the old sources of strife goes a long way towards explaining why party conflict continued after the Glorious Revolution , which will be the theme of the following chapter . |
| 11 | Nevertheless the problem remains of explaining why sex differential rules arise and are followed in a language at all . |
| 12 | Thus although it is commonly suggested that the notion of certainty is relevant to the analysis of claims to knowledge , but not to the analysis of knowledge itself ( e.g. , in Woozley , 1953 ) , this leaves us with no method of explaining why certainty should be required before one can claim knowledge when it is not required for knowledge itself , i.e. , for the existence of what one is claiming . |
| 13 | However , for aspects of driving where memory for events is not so clearly necessary it may be surprisingly poor . |
| 14 | Although most speakers in British society are also literate , and therefore have the advantage of knowing where /r/ occurs in writing , it is not clear that this is really a big help in flowing conversation , though it might be in very slow speech styles . |
| 15 | SEE-SAW DIAGNOSIS The see-saw is a good way of showing how weight transfer works . |
| 16 | So there 's no way of telling how team members are performing . |
| 17 | Whatever our past experiences , whether they be noted landmarks or modest signposts , they are always worth considering where conflict is concerned . |
| 18 | On McDowell 's view it is not essential insofar as one is concerned just with explaining how language evolved to something like its present state of syntactic complexity , as selection favoured its communicative successes . |
| 19 | This project is concerned with examining how number of high technology industries have evolved over time . |
| 20 | It is also worth examining how mortality indices best combine with age weighting to reflect relative needs for health care . |
| 21 | Yes , well I do n't particularly limit the area of what I 'm interested , but if someone who was particularly interested in seeing how history was going over in this school , then I 'd be very happy in discussing with them how they might try and find out how successful history teaching was in that school for example . |
| 22 | It might also be argued that the treatment of language in terms of sentences has been quite successful in revealing how language works , that within the sentence we can establish rules and constraints concerning what is and is not allowed , whereas beyond the sentence , such rules seem either to disintegrate or turn into rules of a different kind — social rules or psychological rules , which are not within the area of linguistic study at all . |
| 23 | As we shall see , this typification is a resource used by policemen and women in several situations and for many different purposes , and it has clear relevance in explaining why community relations police in West Belfast retain their commitment despite the difficulties of their task and the restricted nature of their duties . |
| 24 | That business and the state have spent so much effort in explaining why employment has to be more flexible is testament to their previous success in establishing lifetime employment as a longstanding cultural practice . |
| 25 | The great shake-out of particles at the beginning of the solar system 's life , the way they can recombine to give altered secondary atmospheres , is a feature of great importance in explaining how life took hold . |
| 26 | For the Type B non-profit the final accounts are also important in explaining how money was spent . |
| 27 | But , symbolically , he inaugurates three centuries of amazing progress in explaining how nature works and in harnessing these discoveries . |
| 28 | This is useful in understanding the problems experienced by some stroke patients , and may also be useful in understanding when eye witnesses ' reports can and can not be relied upon ; |
| 29 | Deer have been very much part of my life , and I hope these notes have been of interest and helpful in understanding why stalking takes place . |
| 30 | The third type of doubt stems from a simple but basic deficiency in understanding why Christianity is true . |