Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] how [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There are three conclusions drawn from these arguments , all to some extent encapsulated in the 1958 Education Reform Bill , though it is not altogether clear how the proposals are related to each other .
2 But when it comes to ensuring that public bodies act reasonably and within their powers , it is often felt to be much less clear how the law ought to be enforced .
3 With diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis , it is less obvious how the placebo effect works .
4 Stork was not entirely sure how the headhunting process worked ; indeed , there were no guides to the subject and all the existing purveyors of search are more or less self-taught .
5 It was already clear how the camera might be used to measure area — by simply counting pixels seen at an ‘ appropriate ’ illumination level and exposure .
6 They say the two men should stand trial in Scotland or the United States , though it is not clear how the West would react to Col Gaddafi 's suggestion , now apparently retracted , that it could take place in another Arab League country .
7 So far it is not clear how the G and C cells know when to stop following the Q cells and select an A or P pioneer .
8 It 's still not clear how the man set fire to himself , but as a remand prisoner he was allowed cigarettes and matches in his cell .
9 ‘ It is still not clear how the child came to be in the river , ’ a police spokesman said last night .
10 This would at least have allowed the dollar banana firms , such as Chiquita , to import as much as they want , and it is not clear how the dollar banana quota is to cope with a possible increase in demand .
11 Here , there are also formal links ( So , she , etc. ) but it is not clear how the sequence makes sense .
12 • It is not clear how the duration of sleep could be controlled as regularly as is observed to be the case .
13 if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context .
14 One group of alternants clearly originates with the extension of the general unrounding of ME u ( as in cut , dull ) to initial labial items , such as pull , but it is not clear how the words originating from shortening in the ME o set can be predicted phonologically ( for example , if took belongs to the set , why not cook ? ) .
15 Even Wilson himself was not clear how the miracle had been worked .
16 Given Funai 's denial of any involvement , it is not clear how the Fondation will achieve its aims .
17 It 's not clear how the accident happened .
18 It is patently obvious how a fear which is openly expressed can be passed on .
19 but there 's a right time and a wrong time for doing it , see cos basically if you were getting the money , the phone calls that were , that were done a since Christmas right , I 'm not sure how the bill runs , it probably runs December , January , February er I think they run a quarter on the phone bill , and its a three month period
20 We are not sure how the land masses lay , but they certainly bore no resemblance in either form or distribution to modern continents .
21 I 'm not sure how the connection was made , in that I build canoes ( wooden canoes-wood — dog sled ? ) , but a week or so later I had a set of plans .
22 Assuming , on facts such as those in Bartlett , that the directors have sufficiently researched a project , it is not evident how a court could determine whether the expected profits justify the risks involved , and this is likely to be the case with respect to much business decision making .
23 Or , wh what that , that we just give out grants , and we 're not responsible how the money is spent .
24 When John Leland was touring England , observing and recording , in the years 1534–43 , he was not always certain how a town differed from a village , and so concluded a list of Staffordshire market towns with ‘ Tetenhaul a village and a college about a myle from Wuluerhampton ’ , although there is no confirmation it had ever been anything more .
25 A RARE movie — the mainly horrible How The West Was Won is another — that tries to include the whole arc of the West in its plot , expending its first hours on the virgin land as Kevin Costner communes with nature and Indians , but the finale has to admit the good days are gone , as demonstrated by the coming of the brutish cavalry intent on making the Sioux the first victims of the expansionist whites .
26 A related objection is that it is not immediately clear how the retributivist principle relates to any general notion of what is right or wrong .
27 Moreover , because the textbook had a different purpose from the essay , it is n't clear how the material taken from the textbook is relevant to the essay 's topic of foregrounding in King Lear .
28 It 's immediately obvious how the thickness of the deposit varies away from the vent , and it 's also possible to work out fairly rapidly the total volume of ash erupted .
29 This makes it quite clear how the gap between apparent and real earnings increases with time .
30 Quite amazing how the Queen Mother keeps on doing her so many public engagements .
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