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 | A PROBE was under way today into how a vintage jet crashed into moorland , killing its pilot . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Flights from Australia will go directly to Case , from where a shuttle service will operate to the other two stations . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | She is an expert on how a low-calorie diet and exercise can beat cellulite and other weight problems . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | — A Brighton politician on why a college course on Margaret Thatcher failed to attract a single student . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Suddenly she came out through the last curtain of trees and found herself looking down over sunlit green meadowland to where a railway line wound like a serpent through a cutting at the foot . |
| 25 | She had ideas about how a toy shop should be run in these times . |
| 26 | Pupils learn about how a printing press works . |
| 27 | I was fortunate , yet I can recall that during my earliest discussions there was considerable concern about how a consultant appointment committee might view part time training . |
| 28 | IT really annoyed me to see leaders of the public service unions on TV going on about how a pay freeze would be unacceptable to their members . |
| 29 | A question from our survey asked children whether they would like to know more about how a vacuum cleaner works ; hardly anyone did , and girls were even less curious than boys . |
| 30 | 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 . |