Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [Wh adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data for my research was obtained from four main sources : detailed interviews with ‘ samples ’ of front-line workers , such as social workers and health visitors ; a participant observation study of how a sample of new cases were investigated and managed ; examination of files and records ; attendance at case conferences , which are the meetings of professionals with relevant knowledge of a particular case to decide whether child abuse has taken place , and what course of action is in the best interests of the child , or children , concerned . |
| 2 | It is difficult to capture the essence of why a trip is enjoyable . |
| 3 | When he drew back to skim a line of kisses down the slender column of her neck to where a pulse was beating in a frenzied rhythm she moaned softly , glorying in the feel of his mouth on her skin . |
| 4 | In response to requests from centres , we are also developing guidance on how a centre can modify HN Unit specifications and on ways in which workplace activity can be given formal recognition as part of advanced awards . |
| 5 | D did you get any sort of erm , apart from financial support and material support , did you get any moral support of how a strike should be con conducted ? |
| 6 | The subtle acquisition of a sense of the agency norms — ‘ the normal working standards ’ — is suggested in the following description of how an officer learned the rules about when to take ‘ a stat ’ : |
| 7 | Simons claims that this work provides the first reliable description of how an animal virus enters the cell and initiates infection . |
| 8 | Furthermore a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dress was not made according to a man 's stereotype of how a woman should look , although Laura believed that the covered-up , ‘ floaty ’ look was what men liked . |
| 9 | It did not help that the ‘ Hitler Diaries ’ , the story of how a forger fooled British and German newspapers as well as reputable historians with amateurish fakes purporting to be the German leader 's handwritten diaries , was currently on television . |
| 10 | On one level Affliction is the story of how a man named Wade Whitehouse , living in a New Hampshire milltown , comes to be a murderer . |
| 11 | This is the story of how a woman made of iron emerged from the depths of a grocer 's shop in Grantham and , speaking with a strange tongue given to her by the God of Graven Images , Sir Gordon Reece , held a nation under her spell . |
| 12 | I did some composing in my early years , so I have gained some modest experience of how a piece should hang together , and how it should be carried from the first note to the last . |
| 13 | Orkney and Shetland are further from the mainland than the Western Isles , but the answer to the hon. Member 's specific question about when an announcement will be made is , shortly . |
| 14 | ‘ They are not a total reflection of how a school is providing education for pupils . |
| 15 | The issue of whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned is also a question of judgement , and it would be somewhat unusual for a court erm perhaps erm months later to go against the policeman 's view , a view formed in the heat of the moment , where he had a firsthand erm taste of what was going on . |
| 16 | Indeed the whole question of when a product becomes too expensive to be offered as a sample is very difficult . |
| 17 | The question of when a pregnancy commences often arises . |
| 18 | This obviously begs the question of when a duty exists . |
| 19 | We have in a causal circumstance by itself a complete answer to the question of why an effect occurred . |
| 20 | However , language aside , emigration undoubtedly raised in an acute form the question of where a man or woman belonged ( see also chapter 5 above ) . |
| 21 | In answer to the question of how a school is further to improve the quality of its pupil education , more plans can be laid . |
| 22 | Though this neatly solves the problem of how man can make history while at the same time history makes him , it does not answer the larger question of how a multiplicity of the products of individual acts , ‘ totalizations ’ , can themselves be totalized into the overall totalization required by the logic of dialectical rationality — rather than being the arbitrary , blind and self-cancelling movements of , say , Hardy 's immanent will . |
| 23 | But unknown to most of his colleagues he was busily collecting information that might bear on the question of how a species might change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 24 | To understand the behaviour it is essential to consider the question of how a cat faces death . |
| 25 | The observed structure of apoR2 raises the question of how a polypeptide can fold into a globular protein with an interior of several carboxyl residues ( Fig. 3 b ) , a situation that may be analogous to carboxyl group clustering in , for example , some ion channels . |
| 26 | The hardy perennial question of how an increase in the money stock is divided between a fall in velocity , an increase in output and an increase in prices gets short shrift in the new classical macroeconomics . |
| 27 | They did not like Vine , recognizing that the Major despised them as a lumpen , dull ugly mass , but the men themselves knew better ; they were Wellington 's infantry , the finest of the best , and they were marching east and south to where a pall of gun-smoke was forming like a dark cloud over a far crossroads and to where the guns cleared their throats to beckon men to battle . |
| 28 | ‘ The only things they can offer you is things like making grass grow on colliery spoil heaps or being a world expert on how a locust eats grass , ’ says Peter . |
| 29 | She is an expert on how a low-calorie diet and exercise can beat cellulite and other weight problems . |
| 30 | He was replying to a query about how a letter correctly addressed to 27 The Grove , Hartlepool TS5 1PQ had been delivered to 27 The Grove , Hartlepool TS26 9LZ . |