Example sentences of "[prep] how [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A salesperson can therefore usefully spend time considering how best to respond to these recurring situations . |
| 2 | Someone with this expectation may therefore compare jobs in terms of level of wages and job security , and not in terms of how intrinsically rewarding the job is . |
| 3 | At the centre of these debates are the key questions of how well does a free-market economy meet the various macroeconomic objectives , and to what extent can government intervention improve things ? |
| 4 | Yet another example of how well designed this whole house is . ’ |
| 5 | By ‘ work situation ’ he meant social relationships at work between employers and managers and more junior staff ; this involved consideration of how closely work was supervised . |
| 6 | As on so many occasions when we discuss matters in the House , we are faced with a conflict between principles , each of which is important , and with the question of how properly to resolve such a conflict . |
| 7 | 1.4 The case for change was therefore irrefutable leaving only the problem of how best to effect the changes while maintaining a balance between modules for personal development and the more insistent vocational claims . |
| 8 | The abolition was widely resisted , and was seen as having more to do with the government 's dislike of local policies , particularly those of the GLC , than with questions of how best to manage public administration . |
| 9 | Positive action is therefore needed to encourage the delivery of more flexible support which takes account of how best to support and maintain the role of informal carers ( Griffiths , 1988 , p.7 ) . |
| 10 | After reading this manual , the reader should have an understanding , not only of LIFESPAN 's low level functions , but of how best to put them to use . |
| 11 | Yet the post-Seebohm decades have not resolved the question of how best to set about it or what , quintessentially , should be the role of social workers within it ( Webb and Wistow , 1987 ; Pinker , 1990 ) . |
| 12 | Your budget plan will not only tidy up your current financial position , but will also give you some indication of how best to use the extra resources it has hopefully produced . |
| 13 | The problem arose of how best to characterize the booklet for teachers . |
| 14 | The question of how best to structure a child 's learning experiences invites the teacher or therapist to switch from the focus on linguistic description , presented in Chapters 1 , 2 and 3 , to the concern about explanations of language development discussed in Chapters 4 and 5 . |
| 15 | This has n't been properly thought out in terms of how best to determine the country 's security in future . |
| 16 | Looked at this way , the question of how best to safeguard Venice 's heritage is in fact an ethical question . |
| 17 | Discussion of how best to handle such enquiries , whether by postponement , by consultation with the Minister or Under Secretary responsible or , in some cases , by direct reply on the Prime Minister 's behalf were the subject of daily discussion with the Secretary of the Cabinet . ’ |
| 18 | It 's only when the peak has been conquered that thoughts turn to the delicious things that used to be in the foil-covered dishes , and the question of how best to prepare the spam . |
| 19 | And to compound the difficulty of how best to interpret the statistics , the author of the test has conceded that physicians , instrument makers , naval experts , agricultural reformers , and general applied scientists are more often to be found among the parliamentarians in the sample . |
| 20 | One the first night our dessert of a white meringue swan floating on a sea of raspberry sauce with a scoop of rum and raisin ice-cream nestling between its folded wings , gives an idea of how beautifully presented the meals were . |
| 21 | They are central both to the ‘ level-of-analysis ’ issue and to problems of how seriously to take the actors ' own explanation of their actions . |
| 22 | In view of how often overdoses result from relationship problems it is not surprising that the most effective treatment of self-poisoners often occurs in conjoint therapy with the partner or in family therapy . |
| 23 | The question of how long to stay involved is a tricky one involving issues of case load management and consideration of the other pressures and demands . |
| 24 | But on reflection , she had realized that no one had taken the friendship with the USSR wholly seriously , and now the realization of how much worry it must have caused the Führer and ‘ the greatness of his diplomacy ’ made her feel ‘ quite small ’ . |
| 25 | The Saturn-Pluto ‘ square ’ of March 20 and October 9 will cast a shadow over coming months , making you highly aware of how much influence you can bring to bear and how circumstance and other people can block you . |
| 26 | Saturday 's rally was the first real indication of how much support the workers have attracted . |
| 27 | Few governments have much idea of how much waste their citizens produce and what it consists of , let alone where it can be put . |
| 28 | Barbara Conroy , in her book on library staff development discusses evaluation in terms of how far stated objectives have been achieved , and emphasizes that although evaluation requires careful identification of what is being evaluated and why , to decide the ‘ how , when and where ’ , of evaluation if it is to be more than ‘ just a way of channelling impressionistic information into a required report form ’ , that it is not a highly ‘ esoteric ’ activity , necessarily involving ‘ complex research methodology ’ . |
| 29 | How much design effort is needed in the different areas will not be clear at this stage but unless the system is very simple there are bound to be problems of overlap and of how far to arrange sub-teams by discipline , by function or by problem ( Singleton , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | Japan 's growing influence as a member of the Western camp has encouraged a greater questioning within Japan of how far to accept what the West has to offer . |