Example sentences of "[noun sg] how [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my more cynical film critic friends uses me as his personal ‘ shriekometer ’ to gauge how freaked out Joe Public is going to be by some of the grizzlier horror movies we have to sit through . |
| 2 | These are the data which tell the planner how to go about accumulating an audience , and what is needed to achieve given levels of reach and frequency ( see page 109 ) . |
| 3 | NEXT MONTH How to brighten up a dark hallway and give it a new lease of life |
| 4 | This will not mean telling the student how to carry out the investigation . |
| 5 | If your back gives you trouble , you may already have decided that finding a cure is as elusive as the Holy Grail , and that learning how to prevent back pain , and cope with it when it is unavoidable is the best way of living with it . |
| 6 | the river how to run on . |
| 7 | At MIT in Project Intrex use was made of the computer to teach the user how to carry out an information search . |
| 8 | ‘ Investors who are making money tend not to complain , no matter how fed up they are with their advisers , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The musical forms that emerged out of the American black experience — gospel , blues , jazz initially ; soul , funk , rock'n'roll , R&B , reggae , rap , House eventually — went on to become the dominant repertoire of popular music throughout the world , no matter how watered down . |
| 10 | I was still a child no matter how grown up I felt . |
| 11 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 12 | A set of instructions written in a programming language , that will tell the computer system how to carry out a specific task . |
| 13 | You 've no idea how let down I felt when you would n't . ’ |
| 14 | Dane had stirred something up within her , disturbed deep pools that had perhaps never been touched before , and she had n't the faintest idea how to go about calming those waters again . |
| 15 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 16 | In that respect they are better off than those who simply inherited the wealth , and now have no real idea how to set about replacing what they have lost . |
| 17 | They have no idea how to get us out of it and even less idea how to stay out of it . |
| 18 | This Government caused the recession , they continued the recession , and now they have not got a clue how to get out of the recession . |
| 19 | Instruction is concerned with enabling the user to learn in detail how to carry out computerized information retrieval . |
| 20 | The guide , which costs £5 , plus 50p postage , describes in detail how to set up and run a successful after-school and holiday care scheme , plus vital information such as basic legal requirements . |