Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [Wh adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Present economic theory in fact says very little about how a market containing such imperfections would operate . |
| 2 | ‘ I was interested in how a mind works that is as analytical and calculating as his seems to be . ’ |
| 3 | You 're no more interested in how a programme is put together than you are in flying to the moon ! ’ |
| 4 | Q24 Dependent on how a product is purchased , it may be described as a consumer product or as an industrial product . |
| 5 | The regulation treats parent companies as those having control over another company , such as where a company owns more than half of the share capital , or has the power to appoint more than half of the members of the board . |
| 6 | The second class of locative , or local names , are , as hinted in the last sentence , based on place names — such as where a man lived , where he held land , or where he hailed from . |
| 7 | This can in fact be quite useful in some circumstances such as where a person works in an odorous environment . |
| 8 | This prevents a possible loophole in patent law such as where a person imports components made in a foreign country to be sold as a kit . |
| 9 | If the right arises by reference to the first marketing of the article , such as where a semiconductor topography is designed by a Brazilian in Brazil but is marketed in the United Kingdom by an importer , then the importer will be deemed to own the semiconductor design right . |
| 10 | Where there is a relatively small hole in the board , such as where a light fitting has been removed , you only need a small piece of plasterboard slightly larger than the hole . |
| 11 | Defects in other systems might result in financial loss only such as where an expert system is used to provide financial advice . |
| 12 | Blunt injury to the eyeball such as when a tennis or squash ball hits the eye . |
| 13 | Such restrictive terms will be upheld by the courts only if they are reasonable , such as when a computer programmer working for a bank agrees not to work for another similar bank within a five mile radius for the first year following the termination of his employment . |
| 14 | An accident may happen — such as when a sufferer form alcoholism takes a sip of a drink that he or she was not aware contained alcohol — and this would not even be termed as a sip . |
| 15 | The body may also use its own lean tissue ( muscle ) as fuel when food intake is very low ( such as when a person is on a crash diet ) or when no food is taken at all . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , there may be special reasons why clustering may be a useful technique , such as when an investigator is interested in certain subgroups of the population . |
| 17 | They are agreeably surprised if a child shows a grasp of a phenomenon , such as how a machine works , which they themselves have only recently mastered . |
| 18 | Some drag and drop issues , such as how an application will be launched when a file associated with that application is opened , are still to be resolved . |
| 19 | Of course , it is not always easy to tell-why a baby is crying — there may be many different causes . |
| 20 | Now , here in Devon , she suddenly wants to know all about why a fish is oily near the spine and how you cut and salt it . |
| 21 | In any case it is not easy to be sure about how an illness will progress or what the outcome of a treatment will be . |
| 22 | It can be very difficult to be sure of why a hoard of objects was buried in the ground . |
| 23 | And these are all re really valid but what I want to do now is start looking more into how a visitor actually thinks . |
| 24 | A role is concerned with how a person carries out his job , especially in terms of his own and others ' expectations of the job . |
| 25 | People often become frustrated if they are uncertain about why a meeting has been called , what it is for and why they are there . |
| 26 | Smoke alarms need to be close to where a fire is most likely to break out , but also in a position where an alarm can be heard throughout your home especially when you 're asleep . |