Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [to-vb] or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further aspect of the family , linking these ideas of privacy , home and self-expression , has received considerable attention in the last few decades with the growth of popular psychology manuals on how to enjoy or improve married sex and , more recently , encounter groups and sexual therapy . |
| 2 | Neither the personal circumstances of the patient nor a speculative answer to the question ‘ What would the patient have chosen ? ’ can bind the practitioner in his choice of whether or not to treat or how to treat or justify him in acting contrary to a clearly established anticipatory refusal to accept treatment but they are factors to be taken into account by him in forming a clinical judgment as to what is in the best interests of the patient . |
| 3 | An introduction on the background and development of hand knitted lace fabrics leads on to the machine knitting methods of today : stitch types ; how they are produced ; lace charts , symbols and how to punch or mark out pattern cards , are all explained in detail and illustrated throughout with knitted samples and the appropriate charts . |
| 4 | The woman had taken her baby home without knowing how to feed or bathe it . |
| 5 | Advisory groups and panels were asked to assess and rate research quality , but no guidance was given on how to identify or recognize quality . |
| 6 | It 's more satisfying and exciting to add the art yourself than being told how to look or feel about something . |
| 7 | But it is still true that most members of the professions , accountancy , the law and banking , to whom people intending to start a business might turn for advice on how to constitute or finance it , will propose a company incorporated under the Companies Acts , or perhaps a partnership . |
| 8 | She must know how to give or take his hand and always to acknowledge his presence as an equal partner in the dance . |
| 9 | Who decides how to distribute or allocate these resources ? |
| 10 | He must know how to lift or catch her in different ways from a static position or jump without any sign of strain . |
| 11 | In other words , existing social/organisational arrangements are still considered to be legitimate , or natural , and the main question which remains is how to control or utilise inevitable conflicts . |
| 12 | A major infestation is almost certain to occur at some time or other , and you must then decide how to control or eradicate it . |
| 13 | Before we can agree about how to assess or evaluate mathematical attainment or progress in learning , we must clarify what we mean by ‘ doing mathematics ’ . |
| 14 | As potential jurors or witnesses , voters or representatives of political or interest groups , they will need to know how to judge or present a spoken case , how to recognise emotive language and arguments that are specious or selective , and how to marshall facts with clarity and precision . |
| 15 | Despite the high cost of these kites , due mainly to the involved sail , carbon spar and a fair chunk of distribution costs through the marketing chain , the fact remains that few of them are fully supported by adequate instruction on how to assemble or fly the device . |
| 16 | Identifying the triggers or cues for your own behaviour and other people 's provides a useful foothold when it comes to working out how to change or modify behaviour . |
| 17 | They sent anonymous letters , daydreamed about how to damage or poison the other person or find some way of ruining their lives . |
| 18 | Has he considered whether the western powers should purchase some of those warheads to prevent them from falling into the hands of non-nuclear powers that have no idea how to maintain or destroy them ? |
| 19 | This is , therefore , particularly helpful to the creative people who produce the ads , as they can get very detailed and constructive ideas about how to improve or modify the advertising . |
| 20 | Just observing something does n't tell you how to explain or understand it . |
| 21 | I feel genuinely hostile to an undergraduate ( supposedly one of the best educated people in the country ) who writes asking for sponsorship for some project and who does not know how to begin or end his letter or how to spell the name of the person to whom he is appealing . |
| 22 | how to prepare or cook it |
| 23 | We should also recognize that there is more to producing and understanding meaningful language — to communicating — than knowing how to make or recognize correct sentences . |
| 24 | The second part of the project will involve an assessment of the usefulness of statistical tests in deciding how to reformulate or reestimate an economic model that has been found to be inadequate . |
| 25 | Farmers and horticulturists use Weather Communications for information about when to plant or harvest , builders about when to lay concrete , and retailers about whether to stock up with umbrellas or ice cream . |
| 26 | Most of the ‘ congregation ’ [ he said it in such a way that it merited being put in inverted commas ] do not know how to behave , when to stand or kneel , how to express their grief . |
| 27 | Called Dual Control , it calculates where to lower or raise the plough to get a straight edge on the headland . |
| 28 | Penned in by the subliminal surrealism on the screens , knocked out of the way by the mobile cartoon tableaux that slice aggressively through the audience ( mini-stages dragged around at high speed ) , people do n't quite know where to look or go next . |
| 29 | She told him what to wear and eat , when to sleep or make love to her . |