Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] a [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 | A PROBE was under way today into how a vintage jet crashed into moorland , killing its pilot . |
| 15 | An inquiry is underway into how a tube train with passengers on board took off without a driver and travelled for a mile and through a station before being halted by an automatic signal . |
| 16 | Three separate inquiries are underway into why a woman spectator died attending the demoliton of a block of flats in Glasgow , early reports suggest she WAS at a safe distance from the site of the blast . |
| 17 | Flights from Australia will go directly to Case , from where a shuttle service will operate to the other two stations . |
| 18 | EASTER holidaymakers heading out of London were delayed when the M1 was closed for more than two hours last night because of a suspect van on the hard shoulder two miles from where an IRA bomb exploded last week . |
| 19 | If Aisgill is the destination the track is followed down below the bridge alongside the gorge to arrive at Hellgill Farm , from where an access road goes down to the B6259 at Aisgill Moor Cottages , passing the fine waterfall of Hellgill Force . |
| 20 | Fashion : GREEN — AND FIT TO BE SEEN Jane Mulvagh on how a family crisis prompted Europe 's largest clothing manufacturer to plan an environment-friendly label |
| 21 | She is an expert on how a low-calorie diet and exercise can beat cellulite and other weight problems . |
| 22 | Alternatively a rule might be long and particular , such as detailed rules on how an order slip or trading card is to be completed . |
| 23 | There seemed to be no consideration given as to how a management strategy would serve the processes desired , little attempt to anticipate possible outcomes or to arrange for specific progress points when reviews could be undertaken , nor to establish criteria against which a programme 's effectiveness would ultimately be evaluated . |
| 24 | — A Brighton politician on why a college course on Margaret Thatcher failed to attract a single student . |
| 25 | The question remains , however , as to when a potency level is actually reached and how many succussions are needed to reach it and also whether different dilution factors need different amounts . |
| 26 | Turning to the controversy over where a world revolution could begin , Marx and Engels 's stress on the determination of political events by economic change and the historic role of the proletariat both strongly suggested that a socialist revolution would occur first in one of the most industrialized economies ( such as England , France or Germany ) where the organized working class was largest . |
| 27 | Although I consider that at the relevant time Lautro 's Rules , and thus its procedure , were defective in the respects I have outlined , for the reasons I have given I conclude that Lautro were not required by law to afford to Winchester the opportunity to make representations as to why an intervention notice should not be served before deciding whether or not to serve such a notice . |
| 28 | A short time later they went out to where a bay gelding and a grey mare were tethered and , after instructing her concerning the correct side to mount , he gave her a leg up . |
| 29 | The other prisoners in the compound supported their stand as just and reasonable whereupon some fifty warders were assembled and carried Orchin , Richmond and McCready bodily to where a police officer was waiting . |
| 30 | At the front of the building he gave me a nod and walked over to where a police sedan with a uniformed driver was waiting . |