Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] how a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What follows is an examination of structure and of how an awareness by the teacher of its significance can help him find the game in the drama .
2 The two schools came to different conclusions because they asked different kinds of questions and had different views as to what counted as an explanation , and of how an explanation should be evaluated .
3 I was interested both in how individuals develop a sense of themselves through their subject choice , and in how a world-view of a discipline is constructed at an academic and departmental level .
4 So far , we have looked at ways of getting started , at researching your ideas and at how an argument is structured .
5 Such communications may clearly show signs of similarity to our own human allocation of emotions and feelings — anger , affection , dominance and so on — but of how a chimpanzee actually feels anger , we have little comprehension .
6 No doubt this is all a part of nature 's design to keep the community together , but of how a chimpanzee 's inner mind is structured , and of how they feel , we have little notion .
7 The overall situation is unsatisfactory and it is impossible to give precise guidance as to how a firm can resolve mismatches between fiduciary and regulatory law , other than by always complying with the more onerous obligation where the inconsistency between fiduciary and regulatory law is not direct .
8 Questions were asked of the Home Office as to how a man with a 30-year record in organised crime could be given such a low security classification .
9 However , not only is there no predictability as to how a case will be categorised , there is also no ex post rationality that can be achieved by juxtaposing a series of cases and asking why one case went one way and another was decided differently .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 But he found little guidance in Scripture as to how a subject or bishop should behave when his sovereign was determined to undo the Reformation .
13 In the light of this discussion I offer some indications as to how a strategy of reading might be applied to the study of racist discourses , and invite readers to try out this approach on the two study texts , not in order to produce ‘ the right answer ’ but to compare what is gained and what lost in detail and depth of understanding by applying this kind of model compared to the others .
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