Example sentences of "[prep] how [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first sight this might all look very technical , but it is really fairly simple , and an understanding of the theory of how a board works will help you to progress beyond a beginner 's level . |
| 2 | The book costs £10 and gives details of how a UK scientist can find a research post in Japan . |
| 3 | The truss rod nut would also be extremely awkward to adjust in any kind of a hurry , but considering some players ' sketchy ideas of how a truss rod works , perhaps that 's no bad thing . |
| 4 | Then Googol sprawled wretchedly on a couch , whispering of how a power axe had sliced a hole through the door and how stun-gas had billowed into the suite , all within seconds . |
| 5 | In so doing , we shall begin to understand the difference between the two views of how a market economy works . |
| 6 | Mr Lozoraitis , 69 , an emigre and Lithuania 's ambassador in Washington , told a news conference that most of the new president 's team had no understanding of how a market economy worked . |
| 7 | In a hotel corridor , a very tall man in a vest , braces and crumpled suit is stooped next to a door , demonstrating that he has no more notion of how a Savoy room key works than your ordinary mortal . |
| 8 | Whether that story is a folk-tale , an account of how a motor car works , or the childhood of Mozart , it must be structured and it must be entertaining . |
| 9 | The only serious flaw is his use of BASIC to provide examples of how a programming language works . |
| 10 | He gives the traditional account of how a merchant ship was pillaged in the Red Sea and its crew and passengers massacred except for two boys who were brought to Ella Amida in Aksum . |
| 11 | The cube dependence is not a precise match with the 3.4 exponent obtained from viscosity measurements of long chains , but it is acceptable , particularly as the model gives a satisfactory picture of how a polymer chain can overcome the restraining influence of entanglements and move within the matrix . |
| 12 | An important example of how an EC directive can affect UK law is to be found in the Product Liability Directive ( 1985 ) , which brought about the Consumer Protection Act 1987 ( see below ) . |
| 13 | Like the formal approach to organisations , such charts give us a picture of how an organisation works but it is only a partial picture and misses out on the crucial aspect of how people behave within organisations . |
| 14 | Simons claims that this work provides the first reliable description of how an animal virus enters the cell and initiates infection . |
| 15 | Use of trade exhibitions is on the increase and firms increasingly need to establish a more scientific method of managing this function as it requires an understanding of how an exhibition stand communicates itself to the public . |
| 16 | If you use an equaliser during your video editing sessions , carefully check the effect of each adjustment as you go , by monitoring the sound over a loudspeaker ( headphones may not give a true impression of how the tone corrections will sound when played back in the normal way ) . |
| 17 | His ability to intervene effectively must be a function of his ‘ hands on ’ experience supported of course by his conceptual knowledge of how the system functions . |
| 18 | Managers of bureaux must have a wide view of how the CAB functions both locally and nationally . |
| 19 | The second goes beyond these models and data , to produce a sociological account of how the software designer and user is influenced by the presence and absence of standards , of how images and perceptions of standards and compatibility are formed , and how accounts about standards and compatibility circulate amongst the community of designers and users . |
| 20 | Anderson and Barrios ' ( 1961 ) experiment is a typical example of how the folk wisdom that you should always ‘ put your best foot forward ’ is made amenable to experimental investigation , and then transformed into scientific knowledge . |
| 21 | Despite this difficulty , any final account of how the brain works will have to be interpretable in terms of what its constituent nerve cells do . |
| 22 | The story of how the Birmingham radical , turned ‘ unionist ’ in the United Kingdom context , became Colonial Secretary in a Tory administration is well remembered . |
| 23 | Alternatively the story of how the Robartes family came to have the money to build Lanhydrock House in the Fowey valley could be considered a tale of blatant exploitation , outrageous usury and greed . |
| 24 | There would be a reassessment of how the land reform process had worked . |
| 25 | The pictures show an artist 's impression of how the road signs of the future might look with the brighter display offering information about hazards ahead and how best to avoid them and a more traditional display , similar to existing road signs , for use in normal traffic conditions . |
| 26 | No one , of course , has asked to read it , for — if my argument is correct — the service has no need of any reminder of how the ideology works or how to implement the paradigms which support their cultural norms . |
| 27 | In essence all pa elis are similar ; they tell of how the Ma tdotb ; ā gods ( the Bāra Bhāi or Twelve Brothers ) wander the earth until they come to a place that they like in particular . |
| 28 | There is a complete misunderstanding on his part of how the discount proposals will work in practice . |
| 29 | All this variability both within and between people suggests that the story of how the Stress Syndrome comes about can not be as simple as the Hay Fever Theory would have us believe . |
| 30 | Your Big Mac index , and William Burke 's letter in the same issue about the yen-dollar exchange rate , brought to mind an explanation , which may be apocryphal , of how the exchange rate of ¥360 to $1 was arrived at during the occupation of Japan . |