Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [noun sg] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great shake-out of particles at the beginning of the solar system 's life , the way they can recombine to give altered secondary atmospheres , is a feature of great importance in explaining how life took hold . |
| 2 | Sparkling turquoise and glass-green for the shallows ; royal blue and crisp white as the breakers began ; smoky indigo blurring where sea meets sky . |
| 3 | Deer have been very much part of my life , and I hope these notes have been of interest and helpful in understanding why stalking takes place . |
| 4 | They could then show how Thatcherism laid waste the manufacturing base of this country . |
| 5 | A knowledge of police systems therefore requires an analysis of both sides of the coin , to explore how anti-structure defines structure and in turn redefines and motivates other anti-structural elements in the system , for anti-structural activity has the potential to make bearable some of the constraints inherent in such a closed world as the police . |
| 6 | Its importance , however , is not that we know when doubt becomes unbelief ( for only God knows this and human attempts to say so can be cruel ) , but that we should be clear about where doubt leads to as it grows into unbelief . |
| 7 | I remember sunshine in the morning , I remember when a relationship enhanced reality , I remember when friendship meant faith . |
| 8 | Each of them must be aware of what that role is and understand how crime affects profitability , investment and employment opportunities . |
| 9 | They argued that decentralization could not be divorced from the increasing pressures which industry was facing , nor indeed from deindustrialization itself : that while location factors might indicate why movement took place from area A to area B rather than from area Y to area Z ( though the technical arguments above disputed even that ) , they gave no help in explaining why there was movement in the first place . |
| 10 | Provided that the above rules of base pairing are guaranteed by the laws of chemistry , it is easy to see how replication gives rise to two daughter molecules identical to the original one . |
| 11 | Echoes of the Sun — a film showing how photosynthesis turns sunlight into energy — will be shown on Imax Solido , which presents three-dimensional images in a wrap-around screen cinema . |
| 12 | If he therefore demonstrates why socialism in one country was historically necessary , he ends up by apparently justifying Stalinism : in showing how anti-labour produces deviation , he seems to endorse its course while rejecting any overall schema which can provide the basis of a claim that it will be ultimately corrected . |
| 13 | It is the females who come on heat and who therefore determine when sex takes place . |
| 14 | This explains why English has recourse to a preposition , a word whose function is to establish a relation between two words when no mechanism of incidence is provided for by the words themselves , in order to make the infinitive incident to a support situated outside its event time . |
| 15 | This explains why duress invalidates consent . |
| 16 | He says that it is ‘ difficult to say when omnipotence becomes powerlessness ’ . |
| 17 | It would be nice , then , if there was some feature of the black hole by which observers outside the black hole could tell its entropy , and which would increase whenever matter carrying entropy fell into the black hole . |
| 18 | The Iraqgate affair demonstrates how secrecy lets Government get away with dangerous dishonesty . |