Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book costs £10 and gives details of how a UK scientist can find a research post in Japan . |
| 2 | The truss rod nut would also be extremely awkward to adjust in any kind of a hurry , but considering some players ' sketchy ideas of how a truss rod works , perhaps that 's no bad thing . |
| 3 | Then Googol sprawled wretchedly on a couch , whispering of how a power axe had sliced a hole through the door and how stun-gas had billowed into the suite , all within seconds . |
| 4 | In so doing , we shall begin to understand the difference between the two views of how a market economy works . |
| 5 | Mr Lozoraitis , 69 , an emigre and Lithuania 's ambassador in Washington , told a news conference that most of the new president 's team had no understanding of how a market economy worked . |
| 6 | In a hotel corridor , a very tall man in a vest , braces and crumpled suit is stooped next to a door , demonstrating that he has no more notion of how a Savoy room key works than your ordinary mortal . |
| 7 | Whether that story is a folk-tale , an account of how a motor car works , or the childhood of Mozart , it must be structured and it must be entertaining . |
| 8 | The only serious flaw is his use of BASIC to provide examples of how a programming language works . |
| 9 | He gives the traditional account of how a merchant ship was pillaged in the Red Sea and its crew and passengers massacred except for two boys who were brought to Ella Amida in Aksum . |
| 10 | The cube dependence is not a precise match with the 3.4 exponent obtained from viscosity measurements of long chains , but it is acceptable , particularly as the model gives a satisfactory picture of how a polymer chain can overcome the restraining influence of entanglements and move within the matrix . |
| 11 | An important example of how an EC directive can affect UK law is to be found in the Product Liability Directive ( 1985 ) , which brought about the Consumer Protection Act 1987 ( see below ) . |
| 12 | Simons claims that this work provides the first reliable description of how an animal virus enters the cell and initiates infection . |
| 13 | Use of trade exhibitions is on the increase and firms increasingly need to establish a more scientific method of managing this function as it requires an understanding of how an exhibition stand communicates itself to the public . |
| 14 | The second goes beyond these models and data , to produce a sociological account of how the software designer and user is influenced by the presence and absence of standards , of how images and perceptions of standards and compatibility are formed , and how accounts about standards and compatibility circulate amongst the community of designers and users . |
| 15 | Anderson and Barrios ' ( 1961 ) experiment is a typical example of how the folk wisdom that you should always ‘ put your best foot forward ’ is made amenable to experimental investigation , and then transformed into scientific knowledge . |
| 16 | The story of how the Birmingham radical , turned ‘ unionist ’ in the United Kingdom context , became Colonial Secretary in a Tory administration is well remembered . |
| 17 | Alternatively the story of how the Robartes family came to have the money to build Lanhydrock House in the Fowey valley could be considered a tale of blatant exploitation , outrageous usury and greed . |
| 18 | There would be a reassessment of how the land reform process had worked . |
| 19 | In essence all pa elis are similar ; they tell of how the Ma tdotb ; ā gods ( the Bāra Bhāi or Twelve Brothers ) wander the earth until they come to a place that they like in particular . |
| 20 | All this variability both within and between people suggests that the story of how the Stress Syndrome comes about can not be as simple as the Hay Fever Theory would have us believe . |
| 21 | Your Big Mac index , and William Burke 's letter in the same issue about the yen-dollar exchange rate , brought to mind an explanation , which may be apocryphal , of how the exchange rate of ¥360 to $1 was arrived at during the occupation of Japan . |
| 22 | A representative from the specialist relocation company , Homequity Relocation , gave details of how the home sale programme would operate and a local builder from Congleton was invited to speak on housing opportunities in the area . |
| 23 | But a more characteristic evangelical understanding of how the slave trade abrogated God 's good order stressed the interposition by trader and slaveholder of a harsh human power between God and some of His creatures . |
| 24 | Many years after the war the story of how the Enigma code was eventually broken was told and , as is often the case with officially approved histories , it was implied that the success was entirely that of GCCS . |
| 25 | The similarity of their views — if only on that one key point — is a measure of how the superpower thaw is extending from arms control to economic matters as well . |
| 26 | Judy our new Director will lead her team , of Simon , Richard and To and er Tony and I think it seems particularly er , appropriate and important that Judy at her first appearance here as Director , although many of us present , I know , would remember her wearing other hats , should have this opportunity of speaking the Councillor members and giving us some idea of how the Management Team see the future before us in the years to come . |
| 27 | Forty years of political broadcasting and handling refugees had probably given Leni as good a sense of how the twilight world worked as Agnes had herself . |
| 28 | SCAR 's expert , medical statistician Michael Palmer , reminded the hearing of how the leukaemia controversy had developed since the 1983 Yorkshire TV revelations about Sellafield ( see Chapter Two ) . |
| 29 | The program designer in creating material of a much less familiar kind , needs a clear view of how the teaching unit may be used by a variety of teachers and how he may help them use it effectively . |
| 30 | This leaflet is a summary of how the Poll Tax will affect women . |