Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] how [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idiom or the " feel " of the material must be known — just as a dress designer needs to know how cloth hangs . |
| 2 | Enterprise Computer Holdings Plc fears it has been misunderstood : the company is keen to stress that Finance Director Les Kemp has the unhappy confusion over last year 's accounting figures under control ( CI No 2,162 ) but wants to know how accountants KPMG Peat Marwick managed not to sign the audit report for subsidiary Enterprise Computer Services ; apparently there was confusion at the time over the verification of certain bank loans ; all should be clear in the next report and the company says it expects to show a return to profit . |
| 3 | To understand the AL of communicating one has to understand how people relate to each other . |
| 4 | The project leader has to consider how units of travelling time can be converted into equivalent units of money . |
| 5 | When some curriculum content is selected , the teacher has to decide how pupil learning is to be assessed , as well as recorded and communicated ( e.g. , to parents ) . |
| 6 | It is not enough to say that the visual system must contain edge detectors , one also has to say how edge information could be reconstructed from the retinal image and how far the units in the CNS that appear to respond to edges do , in fact , operate according to these computational principles . |
| 7 | The Home Office refuses to discuss how names are chosen , but political activists are known to appear alongside international criminals . |
| 8 | We recently did a simple experiment which happens to illustrate how children 's knowledge of where an object is determines their behaviour . |
| 9 | Apparently not a single conceptual drawing survives to demonstrate how Nash conveyed his intentions to those in his office who made his presentation watercolours . |
| 10 | The research aims to explore how decisions are made in voluntary sector transport provisions . |
| 11 | The study also aims to explore how marketing decisions are made and to examine the interface between marketing and other functional departments within the firm . |
| 12 | This initial exploratory study aims to identify how schools cope with the introduction of several innovations at once , to develop theory on the management of planned change , and to develop methods of monitoring the processes involved in managing multiple innovations . |
| 13 | The research aims to describe how people sell on the telephone , how they sell successfully , and what factors make certain calls more successful than others . |
| 14 | The research aims to describe how police authorities give effect to this duty and to analyse what the consequences of their adopting different strategies — formal consultative committees , public opinion surveys , informal liaison etc — are for the work of police authorities , for policing priorities and for police management practice . |
| 15 | The awards scheme , launched last year , aims to demonstrate how game shooting and conservation work for a better countryside . |
| 16 | This research aims to examine how case and thematic systems may differ in non-related languages ( English and Hungarian are studied ) , and how they may change in the course of the historic development of a given language . |
| 17 | The second specialised study aims to show how labour market experience affects and is affected by social relations within the household . |
| 18 | Langue , not parole must be the primary object of a science which aims to show how language functions . |
| 19 | This project aims to show how implementation actually occurs , by contemporaneous monitoring of all stages of the implementation process , from Community measure through to adjustment of business and other relevant behaviour . |
| 20 | Conversation analysis tries to describe how people take turns , and under what circumstances they overlap turns or pause between them . |
| 21 | This chapter looks at some of the components of grief and tries to explain how grief may be experienced . |
| 22 | ‘ But it serves to show how things evolve . |
| 23 | It is an idol , a false , man-made attempt at redefining God , and its position at the very heart of the Craft , as the innermost secret , simply serves to show how freemasonry stands on a spurious foundation . ’ |
| 24 | This conception of individuals as determined by social practice is familiar enough , but it remains to see how Althusser fills it out . |
| 25 | You are the kind of person who likes to understand how things work and how they are put together . |
| 26 | It remains to explain how Qi is chosen . |
| 27 | Here , he also contends that ‘ we have no theory of professional learning on the job which seeks to explain how teachers learn from classroom experience , how they learn from colleagues , or how they learn from people and publications outside the school ’ . |
| 28 | However , it remains to ask how Marx , with no starting-point to appeal to , defines the economic sphere . |
| 29 | It tends to ignore some of the more interesting theoretical issues concerned with the ways in which Chomskyan notions of Universal Grammar interact with the immediate linguistic , cognitive and contextual features that are the properties of individual children and fails to suggest how research into language acquisition is developing in other areas . |
| 30 | After 10 years , this administration still fails to understand how government and markets complement each other . |