Example sentences of "[vb -s] how the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland ‘ A ’ are also supposed to be meeting Italy on Saturday , 19th December 1992 , in Aberdeen , but one wonders how the Italians will be expected to approach this fixture . |
| 2 | An earlier chapter ( see page 77 ) describes how the koonkies , the trained elephants of the Singpho elephant catchers in Assam , lull wild elephants into a feeling of security after capture . |
| 3 | And it describes how the requirements of I S O Nine Thousand and One are satisfied within the group . |
| 4 | The release action describes how the hands , wrists and lower arms combine to return the clubface to the back of the ball at speed . |
| 5 | Erm , four nine , the research of formal question letter , order form or contract , to my mind , quite honestly , a purchase order form is a contract from the client but erm , the quiff seemed to think that it was n't so , I do n't know whether it 's worth changing this , depends how the auditors form . |
| 6 | Depends how the trains go . |
| 7 | But Pearson assiduously shows how the grandads of that supposed era of tranquillity were themselves bemoaning the sad decline of standards of virtue and discipline since their youth . |
| 8 | Often , this is done almost in the form of a doodle ( technically a ‘ scamp ’ or rough ) which shows how the elements of the design of the ad will fit together , and may also give some idea of the character of the illustration . |
| 9 | Table 3.2 shows how the groups changed . |
| 10 | Figure 16.1 ( b ) shows how the instructions in the extract from Sears ' can be converted into entries and references in a catalogue . |
| 11 | The tomb shows how the aesthetes of the age of Safdarjung liked their gateways to be as ornately sculpted as their prose was purple ; how they preferred their onion domes to be overextended and tapered ; how they thought the interior of a tomb incomplete unless covered with a rococo riot of elaborate plasterwork . |
| 12 | It shows how the Contras , aided by US government agents , financed their war against Nicaragua not only with official financial help from Capitol Hill but by trafficking narcotics through the US as well . |
| 13 | The table shows how the agencies ' ratings of three large Italian banks , Banca Commerciale Italiana ( BCI ) , Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino , have diverged since last year . |
| 14 | Leith shows how the notions employed within pragmatics and discourse analysis for the study of conversation can help to shed light on the properties and functions of dialogue in ballads , while Short applies the categories of speech presentation developed for the study of the novel to a corpus of journalistic texts . |
| 15 | The second section shows how the laws introduced in the first section can transform every finite program to a form whose only constructs are IF , ALT , multiple assignment and unc ( the diverging process ) . |
| 16 | The structural formula of a covalent element or compound shows how the bonds in one molecule are arranged ( see table 4.3 ) . |
| 17 | The final chapter draws some conclusions and shows how the experiences of this scheme can be used to aid decisions about the future care of dementia sufferers in the community . |
| 18 | It is possible to formulate a conceptual summary , which shows how the processes of anchoring and objectification relate to the two conceptions of social representation . |
| 19 | In fact , Sargent shows how the restrictions can be incorporated into a maximum likelihood procedure so that the restrictions can be tested using the likelihood ratio . |
| 20 | It looks at language areas students are already familiar with and shows how the structures differ in meaning and use . |
| 21 | Wolf shows how the areas in Mexico where there was considerable peasant agitation during the revolution , were those where farms were modernising and becoming more capitalist . |
| 22 | Chart 1 shows how the non-conformances have been reduced since 1989 , when we were dealing with over 300 different hauliers . |
| 23 | The diagram shows how the towns can be arranged in a Rank-Size order from large to small — a hierarchy . |
| 24 | Table 17.6 shows how the banks dominate the personal lending market . |
| 25 | The Cambridge historian Correlli Barnett , in The Audit of War , shows how the inadequacies of British industry in the Second World War were masked by the huge flow of equipment free of charge from the US under the Lend-Lease programme . |
| 26 | Table IV shows how the practices ended the first year in financial terms , and Table V shows how general practitioners and non-medical staff assessed the costs and benefits of fundholding in their practices . |
| 27 | Table 8.2 shows how the weights have altered over the years . |
| 28 | Referring to literature , painting and language , Jakobson shows how the conventions which guarantee a form 's verisimilitude and secure it in public opinion have temporal limits on their effectivity : through time , convention becomes cliche , picture becomes ideogram , genre becomes formula , and tradition becomes prison-house . |
| 29 | A study of how people react in real life when affected by any kind of emotion and mood soon reveals how the movements of the whole body can change . |
| 30 | Introducing Wired , his biography of John Belushi , Bob Woodward recalls how the rigours of research involved going to bed early so as to rise at 4am to visit one of the comedian 's favourite watering holes . |