Example sentences of "[is] how [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I repeat that what is important is how a school deploys its teaching staff , not the number of people it happens to have on its books . |
| 2 | Linguistic performance is how a person uses those rules in real situations . |
| 3 | Here is how a patient with Wernicke 's aphasia gave an account of what is going on in Figure 15 ( Funnell , 1983 ) : |
| 4 | In this chapter we consider how you develop an appropriate voice to write in , since this is how a sense of yourself , as the writer , is conveyed . |
| 5 | His presence is also still felt in the phrase ‘ Lazy Lawrence 's Load ’ , which is how a farmer would describe a worker who struggled under a too-heavy load of fruit . |
| 6 | But one thing that the introduction of the original version should have highlighted is how a break-up and subsequent reconstruction of the text is possible in the first place . |
| 7 | The first half is a conventional ‘ this is how a computer works ’ book explaining concepts such as binary numbers and punched cards at a secondary school level . |
| 8 | That is how a system for dealing with genuine refugees — the losers in Indochina 's civil wars — became insensibly a system for turning North Vietnamese peasants into New York waiters . |
| 9 | That is how a system for dealing with genuine refugees — the losers in Indochina 's civil wars — became insensibly a system for turning North Vietnamese peasants into New York waiters . |
| 10 | The puzzling thing to me is how a man like Stavanger ever came to be mixed up with him . " |
| 11 | Guests have included the Rolling Stones ( ‘ strenuous ’ is how a hotel spokesman describes their stay ) . |
| 12 | ‘ An attempted coup without tanks , ’ is how a diplomat described the frenzy of political haggling in which Bangkok is now engaged . |
| 13 | This is how a sacrament ‘ works ’ , its dynamism , its power in action . |
| 14 | There 's been advertising for years , not just since the fifties ; there was advertising in Victorian times ; newspapers and magazines , and pornography with drawings of women , and how men thought women should look , and the theatre and books all put out the same sorts of things — this is how a woman should be . |
| 15 | This is how a car body starts its life . |
| 16 | Or a distanced comment on the fact that this is how a lot of people actually see them ? |
| 17 | This is how a lot of them fall the by the wayside because |
| 18 | This is how a number of prototype LC computer terminals work . |
| 19 | This is how the afternoon proceeded . |
| 20 | The next question is how the money is being transferred to the Department from the DSS will be managed . |
| 21 | That , essentially , is how the system works . |
| 22 | Of course , from the local point of view it was logical enough to deal in terms of the individuals involved because that is how the system may appear to work , at least to an uninformed observer , and no doubt the question of personality is an important one . |
| 23 | Another approach would be to say that it is I , not some part of me called ‘ reason ’ , which sees that this is how the system of my impulses should be organized . |
| 24 | Australian Aborigines are very direct about this so they , so they do expect something back for the initiation an and it 's a kind of reciprocal thing where okay , you initiate me and I 'll put up with all this crap from you , but you know , you give me a wife , you 've got daughters I want a wife and er if I do n't get it , there 's gon na be real trouble and this is how the system works . |
| 25 | It was n't acknowledged like that , because , like many ‘ non-disabled people ’ , they were held in check by drugging ; this is how the bronchitis , depression , arthritis and so on were ‘ dealt with ’ . |
| 26 | That , briefly , is how the trick is done . |
| 27 | A crucial question now is how the mood of the Parliamentary Conservative party has moved since that date . |
| 28 | The problem is that fight-or-flight behaviours are less and less appropriate in today 's civilized society and this is how the damage is done . |
| 29 | Why invent a mystery force that magically knows how hard to pull on everything to make them go round the same path when you could say that everything has to go in that curved path because that is how the space itself is curved ? |
| 30 | This is how the name ‘ Eucharistic Congress ’ came to be employed . |