Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [Wh adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of principles for ascertaining where an employee ‘ ordinarily ’ works were suggested . |
| 2 | As it is such an important programming tool , with such important consequences for musicians ' careers , it is worth understanding how the playlist is chosen . |
| 3 | This example is useful for understanding how the test works . |
| 4 | Elton , 45 , sent a cheque to Weston Park Boys School , Southampton , after hearing how the 12-year-olds had to make 180-mile journeys for treatment . |
| 5 | They decided to help after hearing how the woman , who does not want to be named , was set upon by two boys near the Red Hall estate in Darlington last week . |
| 6 | The three sprang into action after hearing how the woman , who does not want to be named , was set upon by the boys near the Red Hall estate in Darlington last week . |
| 7 | The process is rooted in what has happened already , in the past ; the Boo– of Changes allows you the luxury of seeing how the process will continue in a hypothetical future — in this case , if you shoot Auntie Flo . ’ |
| 8 | This latter use raises the question however of describing what is implied as leading up to the realization of the infinitive event , that is , of justifying why the speaker should want to represent the infinitive incident to a support conceived as occupying a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event . |
| 9 | The fact that other quick-service restaurants are increasingly adopting the McDonald 's approach to business and training goes some way towards explaining why the sector is growing rapidly even in the midst of recession . |
| 10 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 11 | These facts go a long way towards explaining why the bream is not generally recognised as a hard-fighting fish . |
| 12 | ‘ Mayfest is about people , ’ he said , by way of explaining why a picture of man in a dinner jacket spouting out the letters MAYFEST had been chosen from a wide selection of designs submitted by eight agencies . |
| 13 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 14 | Darwin is thus treated as a major figure in the history of science because he both popularized the general theory of evolution and discovered the mechanism that seems to offer the best prospect of explaining how the process works . |
| 15 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
| 16 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 17 | And the issue would turn into one of defining when a monster was not a monster . |
| 18 | These views gave additional weight to the argument that the MINSE analysis should address the issue of defining how a computer could support the organisational objectives . |
| 19 | It would be extremely difficult to assess the accuracy of recalls when the information available to the driver could not be exactly determined . |
| 20 | It is clear that the planning meeting was for the purpose of deciding how the period in secure accommodation should be managed . |
| 21 | There were no indications that the original hypothesis was incorrect ( ie that the information requirements of an organisation could be derived by the progressive decomposition of a primary task model ) , and the study entered the next phase of deciding how the information base could be used in practice . |
| 22 | In all the Odes there is scarcely a strophe , perhaps hardly a line , that does not transmute word order into word mosaic , a deliberate fragmentation that creates for the reader the pleasurable tension of wondering how the sense will be resolved , accompanied by the stimulus of casual associations , as one word runs against another . |
| 23 | helps me to sort of see how the lesson 's going . |
| 24 | I do n't know if this is true or not , but it 's a good way of visualizing how an inkjet works . |
| 25 | The major disadvantage of this form of dictatorial power balance occurs with the death of the chief ; which is usually followed by a long , painful period of restructuring whereby the balance is restored . |
| 26 | The Government are fond of asking where the money is coming from , but they are supporting a project which , according to old estimates which will probably have to be updated , will cost £1.4 billion . |
| 27 | We could go on to ask why they are n't common , which is another way of asking why the process of meiosis is normally fair , as scrupulously impartial as tossing a good penny . |
| 28 | The British , perhaps because they are jealous of the splendour at Versailles , are fond of recounting how the courtiers used to relieve themselves in the passageways . |
| 29 | It is impossible to describe all the species that currently inhabit the planet given , for example , that species evolve and that there would be no obvious way of knowing when the table was complete . |
| 30 | And he also suggests that simply policing budgets will not solve the problem either , since the basic motivation is not undermined and , in the absence of market mechanisms , financial monitors have no way of knowing when the waste has actually been eliminated . |