Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report told of how the wife of the man accused of The Fox sex crimes was being voluntarily treated in a psychiatric hospital . |
| 2 | Whether or not it is correct , it quite clearly differs from the parents ' explicit account of their perception of how the decision has been reached and the implications it will have for George . |
| 3 | I was interested to read Hugh O'Neill 's article ( The Price is Right ) in the Turning supplement to the June issue of Woodworker writes Geoffrey Heath , which gave a clear account of how the price of a finished article might be established . |
| 4 | However , the IMF requires increasingly detailed programmes of how the member concerned will rectify its payments imbalance before access to the higher credit tranches is granted . |
| 5 | If you use an equaliser during your video editing sessions , carefully check the effect of each adjustment as you go , by monitoring the sound over a loudspeaker ( headphones may not give a true impression of how the tone corrections will sound when played back in the normal way ) . |
| 6 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 7 | Given the Opposition 's desire to give increasing powers to the European Parliament and their lack of understanding of how the Council of Ministers works , we should perhaps excuse the lack of appreciation of the process . |
| 8 | It 's another example of how the bureaucracy ca n't be beaten . ’ |
| 9 | Ideas of how the Universe will die vary from one scientific theory to the next . |
| 10 | Although science may solve the problem of how the universe began , it can not answer the question : Why does the universe bother to exist ? |
| 11 | In 1970 an agreement was reached between British Waterways Board , Leicestershire County Council , and the Leicestershire Branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England to make part of the site accessible to the public and , so far as possible , to clear sufficient of the track to enable people to get some idea of how the system had been constructed and how it operated . |
| 12 | Skilled maintenance engineers , apart from using test procedures and maintenance manuals , use their intuition or heuristics and an understanding of how the system works to solve problems . |
| 13 | Instead , they choose symbols to represent the problem concepts ( knowledge ) i.e. an understanding of how the system works , and then apply various techniques and heuristics ( rules of thumb ) to manipulate this knowledge ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 14 | His ability to intervene effectively must be a function of his ‘ hands on ’ experience supported of course by his conceptual knowledge of how the system functions . |
| 15 | The point is that the psychophysical approach forces you to develop a model of how the system , in this instance the mechanisms of colour discrimination , might work and it is this model that is used to guide the direct physiological measurements . |
| 16 | The first is a simple logical point that without some model of how the system might work , there is no way of deciding which of the millions of possible stimuli available to use in testing a particular celt . |
| 17 | Even the most hardened empiricists start off with some idea of how the system might work . |
| 18 | See last month 's JOBBING NOTEBOOK for details of how the system is installed . |
| 19 | It is noted for its high proportion of ex-civil servants : ‘ They are young chaps who by and large have contacts in the Civil Service and have a jolly good grounding of how the system works , ’ he says . |
| 20 | If supplementary benefit is an inducement to strike activity , then knowledge of how the system operates and reliance on it as a source of livelihood must enter into workers ' plans before embarking on strikes . |
| 21 | Free estimates are available on request and a videotape provides a demonstration of how the system works . |
| 22 | Until policy analysis in central government improved , with a clearer understanding of how the system worked and a reduction of the ideological content of financial strategy , there would be no improvement in central-local relations , the book states . |
| 23 | details of how the school organises the teaching of children of different ages and abilities , together or in separate groups ( either generally or in particular subjects ) and requirements regarding homework ; |
| 24 | Different parties offer different quantities of public goods together with a statement of how the money will be raised through the tax system . |
| 25 | Managers of bureaux must have a wide view of how the CAB functions both locally and nationally . |
| 26 | It is another example of how the racism which ties national culture to ethnic essences , which sees custom , law and constitution , schools and courts of justice beset by corrosive alien forces , has moved beyond the grasp of the old left/right distinction . |
| 27 | The second goes beyond these models and data , to produce a sociological account of how the software designer and user is influenced by the presence and absence of standards , of how images and perceptions of standards and compatibility are formed , and how accounts about standards and compatibility circulate amongst the community of designers and users . |
| 28 | If there 's one symbol of how the whole of BP Oil should one day operate it 's OUS 's star refinery , Alliance . |
| 29 | This case provides a commonplace illustration of how the division of labour in an advanced capitalist society can not be grasped in terms of agreements and exchanges between autonomous traders , and so the security craved by such relations of interdependence must be satisfied by the wider conception of contractual obligations envisaged by the interests theory . |
| 30 | Neither shows the plants in a close simulation of their natural habitat , but both impose an idea of how the gardener would like that habitat to be . |