Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [Wh adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHe 'd heard about how gender meddling had been outlawed because of the high suicide rate among the successfully mutated . |
| 2 | Has anybody heard about how tasks can be categoried ? |
| 3 | Lots of figures were bandied about when news of the first rebel tour broke in 1982 — some newspapers suggested we were on around Pounds 40,000 a man but that was just speculation . |
| 4 | The bulk modulus K and shear modulus G are given as where subscripts 1 and 2 refer to spheres and matrix respectively , and c is the concentration of spheres . |
| 5 | Advice was given about how people might behave . |
| 6 | I know it 's good , but I do n't particularly want to be reminded about how life felt at sixteen . |
| 7 | A strict timetable was to be adhered to whereby reorganization was to be completed by the end of 1974 . |
| 8 | Partick 's troubles were added to when Grant Tierney had to be stretchered off after an accidental clash of heads with Mitchell early in the second half . |
| 9 | What a pass we have come to when state pensions have been screwed down so far . |
| 10 | Davies had come on when Swansea scored their second try to take over from flanker Alan Reynolds , who had a foot injury . |
| 11 | The foyer of the theatre was ablaze with lights , music drifting from behind closed doors carried to where Hari stood in the street with William at her side . |
| 12 | To return to the example , if the machine finds that one particular reply to A is especially strong ( leads to an unusually large change in score ) , it remembers that fact , and puts that reply high in the list of plays to be looked at when B and C are examined . |
| 13 | Four-year-olds are very different from five-years-olds , says Sandra Brown , an educational researcher who has looked at how four-year-olds get on in primary schools . |
| 14 | The conviction carried by how things are in his fiction can not be separated from the sense that they might be otherwise . |
| 15 | ( 13 ) If notice of the court-ordered meeting has to be given by advertisement then the explanatory statement must be set out in full in the advertisement or , as is more likely , notice must be given of where members can obtain a copy free of charge ( CA 1985 , s426(3) and ( 5 ) ) . |
| 16 | For example , in the course of the only natural conversation that occurred on the topic of rape , the following account was given of how rape is evaluated : |
| 17 | A much fuller theory has been developed of how motions of this type can be generated through the action of the mean shear on initially isotropic fluctuations , but the details are not apparent without the mathematical analysis . |
| 18 | That a study be undertaken of how business managers perceive their effectiveness to be affected by access to , and use of , information of different kinds . |
| 19 | But whatever is ultimately decided about where person , place and time deixis belong , there is little doubt that most aspects of discourse deixis and social deixis will lie outside the scope ofa truth-conditional semantics . |
| 20 | ‘ Aah 've said as 'ow oor George 's wife 's time 's nearly 'ere and Aah may be needed at t'confinement . |
| 21 | It is not surprising that rationalizations are often made about why delegation is impossible when the true reason lies mainly within oneself . |
| 22 | The introduction of new technology creates the opportunity for a wide range of choices to be made about how work should be organised . |
| 23 | If the answer is ‘ yes , change is possible ’ , then certain choices have to be made about how individuals are going to tackle the problems which face them , and the counsellor will have a role in enabling counsellees to make those decisions . |
| 24 | There are also several studies being made of how otters are coping with the pressures that we are imposing on them . |
| 25 | Something , then , must be said of how men of that time regarded war , and how commonly-held attitudes may have encouraged them to take an active part in it . |
| 26 | These two positions of special prominence have different functions , and contribute to the ordering of given and new information in your writing ( we have seen above how presupposition also contributes to the patterning of given and new , Chapter 3 , p. 65 ) . |
| 27 | There was a quietness about her that Mary had seen before when people were losing their hold on life . |
| 28 | He had the door open and his back to her when , her brother 's hat obviously catching his eye , he halted , stretched out a hand to it , then turned to where Leith , antagonistically-expressioned , stood , obviously wanting him out of her flat . |
| 29 | In this example the half stepping excitation scheme is being used , so the Phase is excited for half of the total cycle and the torque is maximised if the phase current is turned on when d L A /d 0 is positive . |
| 30 | Your booking will be attended to when staff return . |