Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] it [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is .
2 Even if all informed people could agree concerning what animal welfare is , and how well various animals are faring — and these are large assumptions — the animal welfarist 's position would remain controversial because of how it answers the question ‘ What may be done in the name of , or in pursuit of , animal welfare ? ’
3 The the Council looking at the whole process of how it spends it money what it does , I think the theatre the start of this evening we were looking quite close about what we do and how we do it what we do n't do and what we should do and I think from what 's been said this evening will be re look closely the questions you 've raised things that you 've raised we 'll report it back to you in the hope of this meeting that we 'll actually moved forward because I think it 's in everybody interest everybody 's interest if the playhouse closes .
4 Can some account be given of how it does so which does not commit us to the theory that there are two distinct elements in visual perception , something two-dimensional , picture-like , on the one hand , and a judgement , on the other ?
5 and be confident in its ability to forecast future of how it flows , only at that stage then will be the liability or otherwise in the north south bypass be fully known as will also the role to be played by traffic management measures .
6 Before you even think of tasting it , pick it up , being aware of how it feels and how it smells .
7 He has vivid memories of how it feels to lose your job .
8 Ask the vendor later for a demonstration of how it operates .
9 But in terms of how it happens , it is not that simple .
10 Now the basis for the pathogenesis is not well enough established for us to expect you to understand the details of how it achieves these processes , but one thing which is remarkably clear is that the organism is a capsule producing organism and that once it gets into the er cerebral spinal fluid that predominately is an acute inflammatory .
11 Unfortunately , there is no systematic , regular measurement available of attention to TV commercials ( or , indeed , to TV programmes ) , so there is no reliable quantification of the ‘ attention factor ’ , and our knowledge of how it varies by type or audience or time of day ( or any other variable ) is fairly rudimentary .
12 so you 're saying naturally arises because of its complexity of how it interacts ?
13 In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world .
14 Details of how it works can be found in the technical focus , but suffice to say the overall gearing remains the same as the four-speed ‘ box , with direct drive on fourth .
15 But a better understanding of how it works could also shed light on other questions concerned with the development of sensory nerve cells .
16 A suggestive picture of how it works can be pieced together , as long as you do not mind taking the pieces from different studies of different drugs : work on cocaine by Nora Volcow at Brookhaven National Laboratory , among others ; on cocaine and amphetamines by Bruce Cohen of McLean Hospital in Boston ; on heroin by Zvi Vogel at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot in Israel and Anton Shofelmeer at the Free University in Amsterdam ; and on benzodiazepines ( such as Valium ) by Erick Sigel at the University of Berne .
17 At present we do n't know the exact details of how it works , but towards the end of the 1980s it became apparent that once that signal does get to the nucleus , what happens next in any process of cell plasticity and growth — a step first detected in rapidly dividing cancerous cells , but soon recognized to be a rather universal mechanism — is the activation of a group of ‘ immediate early genes ’ .
18 The first stage involves a brief description of the features and benefits of the product and an explanation of how it works .
19 The question of how it has been spent , by the first two of them at least , raises important issues of public policy , but even Holroyd can not succeed in making such matters positively en thralling .
20 Think of how it has bolstered Radio 4 against rival stations .
21 Well the specific question I asked is whether you 've quantified in percentage terms erm perhaps Group Captain you could give us an indication of how it has affected it ?
22 Could you give me some idea of how it has changed ?
23 Now the fact that position is not a quality is certainly relevant to one 's awareness of the position of things ; it means that to be aware of a thing 's position it is logically necessary that one should be aware of how it stands in relation to something else .
24 But it is not relevant to a thing 's having the position it has ; it does not mean , for example , that to have the position it has , a thing must be aware of how it stands in relation to something else .
25 Then some examples of how it applies in practice are given .
26 He leaves the questions of defining what a group is , and of how it acquires the capacity for influencing the mental life of the individual , until later .
27 If you ca n't , say the word to yourself , and see if the sound reminds you of how it looks .
28 The first method saves the graph as a ‘ picture ’ of how it looks on the screen .
29 As you read it , be aware of how it makes you feel .
30 It 's taken you too long to come to terms with Mark 's death — Anne told me a little of how it 's been with you , the way you 've fought the grief and sorrow . ’
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