Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the spring a story appeared in The Observer under the headline ‘ Power-drill rock climbers accused of vandalism ’ , of how a minority were threatening the relationship between landowners and climbers as a whole . |
| 2 | In answer to the question of how a school is further to improve the quality of its pupil education , more plans can be laid . |
| 3 | ‘ They are not a total reflection of how a school is providing education for pupils . |
| 4 | But the man who says , ‘ It looks bent ’ thereby exhibits his sophistication in the matter of how an object 's being half in water leads to his seeing it otherwise than as it is . |
| 5 | One is to convey some sense of where a child is in the process of learning ; the other is to make easier the analysis of results from groups of children . |
| 6 | Equally , the human considerations of where a settlement is placed in a region are as important as the physical characteristics of the landscape which must be allowed for . |
| 7 | We recently did a simple experiment which happens to illustrate how children 's knowledge of where an object is determines their behaviour . |
| 8 | It is difficult to capture the essence of why a trip is enjoyable . |
| 9 | But there again er it was the time we lived in and you had certain Well yards had their own way of trying to keep track of when a guy was in a toilet etcetera and sometimes you would have to hand in y your er your time ticket , to the toilet attendant , and you would give him this ticket and he would say right you are , you know , and mark down your number on a book and say to you , well you 've got seven minutes or something you know . |
| 10 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 11 | A full enquiry has been launched into how a rapist was able to attack an eleven-year old girl in a children 's ward at a London hospital . |
| 12 | A full investigation is underway into how a rapist was able to attack a , a girl of eleven in a children 's ward at a hospital in Surrey . |
| 13 | With never a thought be it near or far , 'ere , |
| 14 | A railway company came to Wall 's aid and before long a trial was held under floodlit conditions . |
| 15 | But a neighbour wrote an anonymous letter about them to the DHSS and before long an official was knocking at their door . |
| 16 | A GOLF-MAD schoolboy who vanished from outside a nightclub was being sought by police yesterday . |
| 17 | You 're no more interested in how a programme is put together than you are in flying to the moon ! ’ |
| 18 | Place a set of wickets about ten feet from a second position from where a person is going to bowl a ball . |
| 19 | The sight of it crossing the line in barely a walk was one of the saddest of the year . |
| 20 | In 1922 the percentage of households without even a plough was 32.7 in the Central Industrial Region , 33.6 in the Siberian guberniia of Omsk , and 55.8 in the guberniia of Tsaritsyn to the south of Saratov . |
| 21 | Q24 Dependent on how a product is purchased , it may be described as a consumer product or as an industrial product . |
| 22 | Goals and values plus energy provide us with the vital information on motivation to perform and it is these variables which provide the best data on how an individual is likely to perform . |
| 23 | In the case of orthography it is only in comparatively recent times that spelling has been standardised into ‘ correct ’ forms , it being , in former centuries , very much at the whim of the writer as to how a word was spelt , and it was not unusual for several styles — ‘ king ’ , ‘ kyng ’ , ‘ kynge ’ are examples — to be used in the same document , or even sentence . |
| 24 | A skill description relates to how a task is performed and what is achieved rather than what actions are taken . |
| 25 | This will depend on where a congregation is . |
| 26 | Ah , ‘ t is a sorry pass we are come to when a lady is robbed of the clothes on her back . ’ |
| 27 | Of course , it is not always easy to tell-why a baby is crying — there may be many different causes . |
| 28 | These firms should be challenged as to why a replacement is necessary . |
| 29 | Intellectual honesty may well require a better explanation as to why an act is unreasonable than that which has been provided by the courts using traditional techniques of review . |
| 30 | I walked through to where a Chief-Corporal was standing behind a table . |