Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] how the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sometimes the house gets on top of her , ’ Mrs Hellyer explained when she dropped in to see how the girls were managing . |
| 2 | We waited patiently to see how the new Council would emerge , and we are now delighted to have established a Partnership Plan between ourselves and CCW . |
| 3 | This relationship between torque and field strength receives more discussion in Chapter 3 so for the present we need only consider how the pole magnetic field can be maximised . |
| 4 | Gretener went On to suggest a scale , based on a 95% probability of a particular event happening , as follows : Of course it does n't matter what we call them , but this merely illustrates how the rare event merges into the regular . |
| 5 | This not only affects how the male public react to policewomen in the province , it also influences how male colleagues treat policewomen in the work environment and the sorts of duties they are assigned in practice ; and the dearth of senior female officers makes it easy for male colleagues to impose such limits on the role of policewomen . |
| 6 | I do not rightly understand how the medical men could not save him after the accident since you say the cut seemed small and did not appear to trouble him but I have heard that for the blood to be poisoned it takes only a pin-prick and that a cut where there is manure about can have this effect if not noticed . |
| 7 | One can only guess how these drugs were originally recognized , though it is easy enough to imagine how the fermented juice of squashed grapes began to be enjoyed . |
| 8 | Hawes , for example , has tellingly demonstrated how the failures of curriculum change in Africa are deeply rooted in structures , resources and attitudes . |
| 9 | For example , the reading lists supplied by colleges were intended ‘ merely to illustrate how the aim of the course will be implemented . |
| 10 | Instead of merely examining how the law enforcement process in its broadest sense constructs a false image of serious crime and its perpetrators , they suggest we should consider the social construction of criminal law categories . |
| 11 | A visitor who heard him speak long remembered how the feeling of the meeting rose towards him when he got on his legs . |
| 12 | The RHA thus sought to ‘ encourage all those Districts which have an interest in a particular large hospital to come together to determine how the service can best be developed to meet local demands within the expected financial constraints ’ . |
| 13 | But Izzie , watching the figure loping towards them with his strange , wolf-like walk , suddenly knew how the Devil will look on the day of his Redemption . |
| 14 | The seats were like upholstered benches , and God only knew how the gear-stick operated . |
| 15 | Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran . |
| 16 | The following remark of Dennis Altman 's , even if not strictly correct historically , rightly implies how the negation of desire and the negation of difference are in practice often inseparable : ‘ the original purpose of the categorization of homosexuals as people apart was to project the homosexuality in everyone onto a defined minority as a way of externalizing forbidden desires and reassuring the majority that homosexuality is something that happens to other people ’ ( Homosexualization , 72 ) . |
| 17 | The case studies below illustrate how the aims and objectives of the curriculum and the needs and abilities of users have influenced the design of three databases produced in schools who are participating in the MISLIP project . |
| 18 | That ‘ inwardness ’ so prized by some English readers , and characteristically found by them ( implausibly ) in Lawrence , is an attention directed so far ‘ inward , that it can never come to the surface for long enough to notice how the sunlight breaks upon the edges and volumes of a piece of sculpture ; and that is why indeed such readers can not use the word ‘ aesthetic ’ except ‘ in a limiting sense ’ . |
| 19 | From here we could go on to explore how the people in the castle manage without Melric . |
| 20 | On the facts of Lamb [ 1967 ] 2 QB 981 the accused could not be guilty of reckless manslaughter when he shot his best friend not realising how the chamber of a gun revolved on pressing the trigger . |
| 21 | Another example — we have not examined how the government 's funding is affecting housing trusts , or its impact on the local housing market . |
| 22 | But it has to be reiterated that the CTP does not explain these observations : it does not explain how the impinging events give rise to awareness of those events . |
| 23 | St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time . |
| 24 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 25 | It indeed relates to the suggested function of that inhibition , but that fact will not explain how the prohibition which is explicitly against in-breeding will have arisen . |
| 26 | It does not explain how the intervention of these ( nearly ) classical systems chooses one chain rather than another as the physical occurrence on a particular occasion . |
| 27 | The girl could not explain how the locket came to be among her clothes , and it was clear that her protestations of innocence were in vain . |
| 28 | But as time went on he realised he could not convey how the style had evolved without understanding the techniques at first hand . |
| 29 | Brown stood up and went over to see how the antique dealer was feeling . |
| 30 | But here also we can not predict how the couplet will proceed ; not only do we not yet know the grammatical or syntactic pattern of the next line , or its lexical contents , but , more importantly , we do not know what kind of a relationship what we have read will bear to what we have yet to read . |