Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [Wh adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy enough to see why candidate Clinton opted for a tax on energy consumption . |
| 2 | 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 . ) |
| 3 | The Community can only act where member states have given it the power to do so in the treaties . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Gulls flapped around uttering their strange cry of ‘ Tero , Tero ’ , and swooping down to scavenge whenever play moved on . |
| 7 | The figures below show how credit use has changed over the period covered by these three surveys . |
| 8 | This would explain more about the history of local trade and perhaps show how knowledge of bronze-casting reached West Africa . |
| 9 | It does help our chances of success however , if we can better understand why reef fish are aggressive towards each other . |
| 10 | So remember when travelling on public transport to : |
| 11 | This role would not find much acceptance these days , which perhaps explains why antiracism and equal opportunities receive so much emphasis . |
| 12 | Yet pragmatics tends only to examine how meaning develops at a given point . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I have already explained how debris such as brambles impairs a net 's efficiency . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There was a strong moral belief in old England that evil spirits only had power over ill-gotten goods , thus explaining why ABBEY LUBBERS could only wreak havoc amongst monks once corrupt behaviour had been evidenced . |
| 18 | They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death . |
| 19 | At present , we do not know how smoking might promote either gall stone formation or the development of symptoms . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It just depends how dad is . |
| 24 | It was also important to remain calm , and not reveal how unnerving she found this confrontation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We have already seen how section 76 of the 1944 Act proved to be ineffective at forcing compliance by LEAs to parental wishes . |
| 27 | There are two very strong pieces of evidence confirming that the examples of inherently restrictive predicative adjectives accompanied by articles must indeed be regarded as entity-identifying expressions : First , they can quite generally appear where entity expressions appear , including positions which are not even superficially available to an ordinary adjective : ( 24 ) the rudest came from your cousin she gave motherly advice to a second , and a stern warning to a third the oldest of the aircraft should be scrapped ( 25 ) the honest deserves the appointment Bert offered a peanut to the untidy the elegant of the vases lay on its side |
| 28 | They did not have electricity , it would be oil lamps and some of them I can not mind when gas would come . |
| 29 | As I 've said Boy read this narrative twice , but still he could not understand why Madame wished him to study it . |
| 30 | He could not understand why Nanny was suddenly bent on making the worst kind of trouble for him . |