Example sentences of "[conj] how it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | After some preparatory work in Napier , they will learn at first hand about how organisations work , relating theory to the aims of their particular community partner organisation and how it achieves those aims . |
2 | 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage . |
3 | He also points out , in passing , that various questions of the sort which have cropped up in earlier chapters of this book , such as whether matter can think , and how it produces mental sensations , ‘ are entirely banished from philosophy ’ by the adoption of immaterialism . |
4 | We are already familiar with Hobbes 's fascination with motion , and how it seemed obvious to him that motion was the one basic cause . |
5 | In this issue , Cathy McCormack shares with us her personal perspectives on this process and how it infiltrates many levels . |
6 | The relevant questions should not concern how local ‘ culture ’ forms local politics , but how this ‘ culture ’ itself is formed , how it is sustained or transformed , and how it affects local political activity in conjunction with a host of other structures and practices , some of which may be locally based and some of which may not . |
7 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |