Example sentences of "[adv] [Wh adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So whenever the board arrived , of course , the children were always neat and clean . |
| 2 | No answer , but the pinched face reflected clearly enough how the boy 's heart sank within him . |
| 3 | A baby is not some final luxury item that consumers can afford ( although this is obviously how the Government views it ) . |
| 4 | Apart from this it was probably true to say that the Truman Administration , well before it came to an end , had run out of ideas on Vietnam ; and it is probably true also that at the end of 1951 the weight of the French problem was beginning to shift : not so much how the US could get France out but how to keep her in . |
| 5 | He lay there , listening to the noises in the street , quite tranquilly ; not caring much how the time went , but watching it and watching everything about him with observing eyes ( 2 ) . |
| 6 | The section describing the operation of the system should cover not only how the system operates but also how the user can operate it . |
| 7 | In this type of use , to is intercepted at the final moment of the movement it denotes , so that the adjective or main verb evokes not only how the person designated as the support of the infinitive was predisposed towards the realization of the latter 's event , but also his feelings at the time of its occurrence . |
| 8 | Only how the devil to make him believe that ? |
| 9 | So our care and management of the young horse will affect not only how the horse relates to people , but whether the horse relates to its environment in a way that is constructive or destructive to the horse itself . |
| 10 | With its interest in cultural representation , the stories people tell about themselves , New Historicism is concerned to explore not only how the Renaissance fashioned itself , but how our present cultural categories allow us both to write and to understand culture . |
| 11 | Only how the hell did you stop them ? |
| 12 | As she raised her little hammer to tap on the table , she wondered suddenly why the Advent had actually sent a reporter — they usually depended on the publicity secretary to supply them with a report . |
| 13 | He sat down on his bed while he threaded new laces into his boots , and then paused , one lace suspended in his hand , as he wondered suddenly why the wire service had not given the Advent any news about him . |
| 14 | And that seems to me to go against having a strategic policy but what we 're talking about is the interface at a local level between development and and protecting the countryside and that 's quite rightly where the decisions should be made . |
| 15 | This is so where the structure and organisation of social groups and collectivities is fairly precisely defined by some overall set of rules , as , for example , in the armed services , or in other bureaucratic organisations like local government departments , the Civil Service , ICI , or in similarly organised work groups ( for instance in the coal or motor industries ) . |
| 16 | This may not be so where the title is unregistered . |
| 17 | So where the hell were the French ? |
| 18 | So where the hell are their Dragoons ? ’ |
| 19 | So where the hell have they gone ? ’ |
| 20 | So where the hell iseveryone ? |
| 21 | The ranch , Ol Ari Nyiro , is run as a commercial livestock enterprise supported by several thousand acres of arable agriculture , but only where the land permits . |
| 22 | Contours are shown only where the chemistry has depleted ozone by more than 10% . |
| 23 | We must be able to provide a level of transparency that shields users and the programmers from not only where the data is stored but in which relational database management system . |
| 24 | No it 's only where the cats how we do n't get hairs on the chair . |
| 25 | Again in the recently published P P G six , paragraph forty six , it states that regional shopping centres may well have a role to play but usually only where the loss of greenbelt can be justified by the economic and social benefits of the scheme . |
| 26 | There is an equivalent section that relates to criminal evidence which allows a , a statement to be introduced but only where the needs , where the , I hate that word , the , where justice requires it to be introduced . |
| 27 | ‘ It is only where the words are absolutely incapable of a construction which will accord with the apparent intention of the provision and will avoid a wholly unreasonable result that the words of the enactment must prevail . ’ |
| 28 | However , it was only when the driver turned to the left up the quays that the real damage wrought by the 1916 rising could be clearly seen . |
| 29 | It 's only when the peak has been conquered that thoughts turn to the delicious things that used to be in the foil-covered dishes , and the question of how best to prepare the spam . |
| 30 | It was only when the organ developed from that pipe and with the organ the tradition of fugue-writing could a genius like Bach arise . |