Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] how [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If pupils and staff together planned how money saved in these areas could be used to provide better facilities and recreational opportunities then perhaps these problems could be overcome . ) |
| 2 | We can not assume that these interpretations will be made in the same way in all cultures and in all languages , so understanding how interpretation proceeds in the culture of the language we are teaching is crucial if we are to help foreign learners to make their words function in the way that they intend . |
| 3 | We can not assume that these interpretations will be made in the same way in all cultures and in all languages , so understanding how interpretation proceeds in the culture of the language we are teaching is crucial if we are to help foreign learners to make their words function in the way that they intend . |
| 4 | The figures below show how credit use has changed over the period covered by these three surveys . |
| 5 | This would explain more about the history of local trade and perhaps show how knowledge of bronze-casting reached West Africa . |
| 6 | Yet pragmatics tends only to examine how meaning develops at a given point . |
| 7 | The previous section identified the axes of the McKinsey-GE matrix , but did not explain how attractiveness or competitive strengths could be classified as high , medium or low . |
| 8 | I have already explained how debris such as brambles impairs a net 's efficiency . |
| 9 | Manual socio-economic grades were more likely to have favourable views of HP and mail order than people in non-manual grades , and were particularly likely not to know how bank loans or credit cards worked . |
| 10 | But she does not discuss how knowledge of these individual processes can translate into social action , nor , more fundamentally , how the unconscious can be made conscious . |
| 11 | At present , we do not know how smoking might promote either gall stone formation or the development of symptoms . |
| 12 | Melanie did not know how Finn washed , when he washed , if he ever washed ; but Francie would sometimes fill an oval tin bath from kettles and saucepans boiled on the stove and sit impassively in it in the kitchen behind a locked door . |
| 13 | Those who have not tried to sell — and particularly sell in a highly competitive market where there are very large contracts , the possession or loss of which can have a fatal effect on one 's whole business — do not know how testing it is of courage and nerve . |
| 14 | We are talking about costs and , as my hon. Friend will know , the cost of maintaining any aircraft , whether in the Royal Air Force or the reserves , is great , and I do not know how cost effective it would be . |
| 15 | It just depends how dad is . |
| 16 | It was also important to remain calm , and not reveal how unnerving she found this confrontation . |
| 17 | We have already seen how authority within companies is deemed legitimate when it is based on educational achievement and length of service ; attitudes towards public sector bureaucrats who occupy high office are likewise framed by the priority given to individual merit displayed by educational status . |
| 18 | We have already seen how section 76 of the 1944 Act proved to be ineffective at forcing compliance by LEAs to parental wishes . |
| 19 | If we can not understand how body ‘ should imprint any idea in the mind ’ , our having such ideas ‘ can be no reason why we should suppose matter or corporeal substances , since that is acknowledged to remain equally inexplicable with , or without this supposition ’ . |
| 20 | I do not see how relief can be denied to Handscomb in consequence of this as well as other declaratory relief which will be later formulated . |
| 21 | I do not see how expansion could happen without a substantial increase in government funding . |
| 22 | The slick programmes and vast fees may have contributed less than is apparent to those outside government , who can not see how policy conclusions are actually reached . |
| 23 | I find it hard to understand it does not seem feasible to explain I can not see how neo-Darwinism seems inadequate to explain many of the complexities of animal behaviour it is not easy to comprehend how such behaviour could have evolved solely through natural selection It is impossible How could an organ so complex evolve ? |
| 24 | Sentences ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) illustrate the point : ( 2 ) He lay there listening to the noises not caring how time went but watching it and watching everything … ( 3 ) When the sunbeams struck into his room and quivered on the opposite wall through the rustling blinds like golden water he knew that evening was coming on , and that the sky was red and beautiful . |
| 25 | one can not guess how tax rates , personal allowances and bands of income for higher rates are going to change in future tax years ; |
| 26 | We have already noted how deviance is amplified upon the application of the gouger typification , so that the failure to apply it can result in a dissipation of deviance and an attempt to normalize the behaviour . |
| 27 | ‘ There are a significant number who think their vote goes into a national pool and do not appreciate how voting by constituencies works . |
| 28 | It is not known how lithium salts work . |
| 29 | The primacy of economic forces , however , does not imply how research should be organized . |
| 30 | The document says it is impossible not to notice how society , for the most part , makes human sexuality banal , since it interprets it in a reduced and impoverished way , ‘ connecting it only with the body and egoistic pleasure ’ . |