Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] how [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funding for this work is provided principally by the British Know How Fund . |
| 2 | It is interesting to note how Trade Indemnity , which has been an active user of this Z-Score approach for many years , used the technique as part of its overall risk assessment procedures to provide advance warning , allowing it to reduce exposure to MCC to a nominal sum by the time it failed . |
| 3 | Provided that the above rules of base pairing are guaranteed by the laws of chemistry , it is easy to see how replication gives rise to two daughter molecules identical to the original one . |
| 4 | If retirement does not inevitably involve economic dependency , then it is easy to see how retirement may result from a positive choice by those people who believe they will not suffer any substantially reduced ability to consume . |
| 5 | It is easy to see how fertility has been kept low since the middle of the twentieth century , and how the control over its timing given by contraception could permit a new pattern of fertility fluctuation . |
| 6 | With Mead 's responsibilities focused on the City and Vickers ' on clients , it is easy to imagine how Baulkism has become AMV 's managerial guiding principle . |
| 7 | It is impossible to foresee how life will work out , but a reasonable attempt should at least be made to avoid the obvious pitfalls . |
| 8 | It is now straightforward to show how government policies , even anticipated ones , can stabilize real output in this model of ‘ sticky ’ prices . |
| 9 | It is not hard to see how permission can be conceived as something which throws the action permitted into the future : one generally gets permission first and then performs the action permitted after . |
| 10 | It would be hard to see how communication could take place if we could not take some sort of mutually shared knowledge for granted , if every discourse had to begin from scratch . |
| 11 | It is not hard to see how Realism has become so firmly established in research programmes supported by official funds and to construct a sociology of knowledge explanation of its dominance . |
| 12 | For instance , if the clause imposing the obligation only to exercise reasonable endeavours were hidden away in a set of standard terms on the back of a quotation offering in unequivocal terms to paint the house , and the job was otherwise obviously a straightforward one , it is hard to see how reliance on the clause would be reasonable . |
| 13 | Were it not for the tides , it is hard to see how salt marsh could exist at all . |
| 14 | It is hard to see how Channel 4 Daily , for example , the morning show at present heavily subsidised by TV-am , could ever pay its way . |
| 15 | It is hard to see how sexuality as such — I mean , when not combined with overt physical disruption such as torture or castration — can be a candidate for the genuinely obscene … . |
| 16 | ‘ We know how bad we 've been lately , but when things go wrong it 's hard to explain how confidence drains . |
| 17 | It was hard to tell how Doctor was thinking . |
| 18 | It is fascinating to see how theory and experiment have vied for the lead over the past 30 years , with first one then the other leading the way . |
| 19 | It is helpful to understand how money is transferred from one country to another and the bank accounting procedures which accompany such transfers if the concept of Eurocurrency is to be fully understood . |
| 20 | Krashen ( 1981 ) has offered a set of postulates concerning second language acquisition which forms a coherent model of this language task and it is useful to consider how BSL satisfies the series of five hypotheses which Krashen sets out : |
| 21 | It is useful to note how project appraisal integrates with the rest of the project and its dependence on effective management of the project if the assumptions are to hold good . |
| 22 | Although the discovery of the double helix made it possible to understand how information might be stored in DNA , revolutionary advances in areas such as nucleotide sequencing and computing have been needed before people can contemplate recovering the stored information on a large scale . |
| 23 | To do this , you need to be able to understand how status games work , and what devices are used . |
| 24 | Nonetheless , all teachers will need to be able to understand how language operates , if we are to avoid the widespread condemnation of ‘ improper ’ speech , beliefs that Indians speak ‘ Indian ’ ( Linguistic Minorities Project , 1985 : 322 ) , and misunderstandings of the structure of English ( Bloor , 1986 ) , etc . |
| 25 | With current interest in afforestation it is timely to consider how afforestation might affect groundwater . |
| 26 | Secondly , at a time when social workers are particularly concerned to understand how race should influence their practice , it is unfortunate that the study is based on respondents all of whom were of ‘ white British origin , reflecting the populations from which they were sampled ’ . |
| 27 | However , if they simply analysed the parts in isolation from each other , they would be unable to explain how life was maintained . |
| 28 | He was able to visualize how soccer could benefit from adopting ideas which , in their infancy , seemed to most other people to be merely the outpourings of an eccentric mind . ’ |
| 29 | It is essential to explore how user-system interaction through the retrieval task itself could be developed . |
| 30 | It is essential to recognize how fear comes about and how to cope with it . |