Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To understand the behaviour it is essential to consider the question of how a cat faces death . |
| 2 | He thought often , in his dim place , of how a man becomes his job . |
| 3 | This is a wonderful illustration of how a person strays from God and from his fellow human beings . |
| 4 | A fly ball , I take it , is the baseball equivalent of a skier in cricket , so the problem of how a fielder knows where to go , where to place his hands to catch , it is the same . |
| 5 | Those who come to it fresh , without preconceived ideas of how a spreadsheet works , will find it a dream . |
| 6 | It says erm The theme is an urgently felt personal one , an exploration of how a woman comes to maturity in the world of the writer 's youth . |
| 7 | Such declarations are of little intrinsic importance but they tell us something of how a politician sees the world and his own place in it . |
| 8 | Kitcher gives a good example of how a theory becomes accepted by the generality of scientists : Alfred Wegener 's theory of continental drift achieved acceptance after half a century of intermittent discussion only when the concept of plate tectonics provided an acceptable mechanism . |
| 9 | The reason behind this two-stage approach is that it is often very difficult for the viewers of the demonstration to understand the principles of how a product works while at the same time watching it work . |
| 10 | It is all a matter of taste , and more importantly , a matter of how an aroma makes you feel . |
| 11 | This was an intriguing first hand account of how an engine works , its maintenance , and driving . |
| 12 | It will also give you a more objective idea of how an employer sees you when reading your application form or letter . |
| 13 | The analytical core which Keynes shared with Pigou did not extend to their respective prognoses of how an economy responds to excess supply in the labour market . |
| 14 | A spreadsheet program does n't replace the traditional accounts package as a means of keeping track of where a business spends its money but it be a powerful tool for preparing analyses or projections . |
| 15 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |
| 16 | For example , in the definition of when a company becomes insolvent for the purposes of disqualification of unfit directors of insolvent companies : see section 6(2) ( b ) ; and the application of the reporting provisions affecting administrative receivers as office holders in section 7(3) ( d ) and section 7(4) . |
| 17 | Indeed the whole question of when a product becomes too expensive to be offered as a sample is very difficult . |
| 18 | This obviously begs the question of when a duty exists . |
| 19 | The question of when a pregnancy commences often arises . |
| 20 | Yet the export drive predicted for nearly a decade has yet to happen . |
| 21 | A role is concerned with how a person carries out his job , especially in terms of his own and others ' expectations of the job . |
| 22 | Yeah it is , it 's going out and doing the business as well but it 's got ta have a lot more intellectual input er in you know in terms of having a having a greater insight into how a company works , how an airline operates , how the marketing department operates and so forth . |
| 23 | The third case was impossible to assess , for Mrs Kitchener 's daughter did not want to be interviewed again , but the development officer 's account at a time when Mrs Kitchener had been known to the project for about a year gives some indication of the situation : |
| 24 | ‘ I was interested in how a mind works that is as analytical and calculating as his seems to be . ’ |
| 25 | From there a track leads up the mountain to the Lemnalarry Lakes ( seven in all ) . |
| 26 | From nowhere a Mamba appears and I 'm up and running with the bleeding pigeon up my jumper playing the bongos on my chest . |
| 27 | ‘ The only things they can offer you is things like making grass grow on colliery spoil heaps or being a world expert on how a locust eats grass , ’ says Peter . |
| 28 | But most non-scoring credit decision systems are based on a similar idea — an attempt to predict the future , based on how an individual seems to fit into a pattern of past good and bad credit risks . |
| 29 | Since then a program 's been written called Database One which means something completely different which has been updated to Database Two and Three and may be Four , which mean different things , that 's why they 've got different numbers , they do more clever things and nowadays you talk , you hear people talking about databases and they all mean different things . |
| 30 | Since then an association has been found between the carriage of resistant strains and failure to respond to treatment with the corresponding antibiotic . |