Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue of whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned is also a question of judgement , and it would be somewhat unusual for a court erm perhaps erm months later to go against the policeman 's view , a view formed in the heat of the moment , where he had a firsthand erm taste of what was going on . |
| 2 | In the spring a story appeared in The Observer under the headline ‘ Power-drill rock climbers accused of vandalism ’ , of how a minority were threatening the relationship between landowners and climbers as a whole . |
| 3 | It did not help that the ‘ Hitler Diaries ’ , the story of how a forger fooled British and German newspapers as well as reputable historians with amateurish fakes purporting to be the German leader 's handwritten diaries , was currently on television . |
| 4 | At first sight this might all look very technical , but it is really fairly simple , and an understanding of the theory of how a board works will help you to progress beyond a beginner 's level . |
| 5 | In answer to the question of how a school is further to improve the quality of its pupil education , more plans can be laid . |
| 6 | ‘ They are not a total reflection of how a school is providing education for pupils . |
| 7 | Here are three examples of how a change of thinking can save you from making high scores . |
| 8 | Such communications may clearly show signs of similarity to our own human allocation of emotions and feelings — anger , affection , dominance and so on — but of how a chimpanzee actually feels anger , we have little comprehension . |
| 9 | No doubt this is all a part of nature 's design to keep the community together , but of how a chimpanzee 's inner mind is structured , and of how they feel , we have little notion . |
| 10 | Though this neatly solves the problem of how man can make history while at the same time history makes him , it does not answer the larger question of how a multiplicity of the products of individual acts , ‘ totalizations ’ , can themselves be totalized into the overall totalization required by the logic of dialectical rationality — rather than being the arbitrary , blind and self-cancelling movements of , say , Hardy 's immanent will . |
| 11 | To understand the behaviour it is essential to consider the question of how a cat faces death . |
| 12 | The truss rod nut would also be extremely awkward to adjust in any kind of a hurry , but considering some players ' sketchy ideas of how a truss rod works , perhaps that 's no bad thing . |
| 13 | Data for my research was obtained from four main sources : detailed interviews with ‘ samples ’ of front-line workers , such as social workers and health visitors ; a participant observation study of how a sample of new cases were investigated and managed ; examination of files and records ; attendance at case conferences , which are the meetings of professionals with relevant knowledge of a particular case to decide whether child abuse has taken place , and what course of action is in the best interests of the child , or children , concerned . |
| 14 | On one level Affliction is the story of how a man named Wade Whitehouse , living in a New Hampshire milltown , comes to be a murderer . |
| 15 | Begin again , distant and spare , a clinical account of how a man — an economist — encountered a beautiful brown woman , the one hundred and fifty-sixth prostitute to spread herself with simulated murmurs and greedy eyes beneath his unslaked loins . |
| 16 | He thought often , in his dim place , of how a man becomes his job . |
| 17 | You 're my ideal of how a man should be … ’ |
| 18 | Of how a man might contrive to open a cylinder of phetam , and perhaps set us up as a God-King himself , on a more salubrious world … |
| 19 | It reminds me a bit of Wittgenstein 's account of how a child might be trained in the practice of ‘ narration of past events ’ : |
| 20 | This is a wonderful illustration of how a person strays from God and from his fellow human beings . |
| 21 | Much work has been done on children 's understanding of how a person 's beliefs determine that person 's actions , but less is known about their conception of the role of motivation in action . |
| 22 | A fly ball , I take it , is the baseball equivalent of a skier in cricket , so the problem of how a fielder knows where to go , where to place his hands to catch , it is the same . |
| 23 | Those who come to it fresh , without preconceived ideas of how a spreadsheet works , will find it a dream . |
| 24 | ‘ They thought that what we had done was an example of how a test should be made . |
| 25 | D did you get any sort of erm , apart from financial support and material support , did you get any moral support of how a strike should be con conducted ? |
| 26 | They had a passion for clothes , and every particular of how a dress or coat was made was studied in the most minute detail . |
| 27 | This is an example of how a speaker , by skilfully using code switches , can create or " animate " a character within a narrative . |
| 28 | In the next section , I proceed to summarize Kuhn 's account of how a paradigm can run into trouble and be replaced by a rival . |
| 29 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
| 30 | Many girls spoke to me of how a fear of being raped or ‘ hassled ’ affected the way they dressed and how they felt about their looks and bodies . |