Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] how the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the last decade of Edward III 's reign it had become customary for the contracts of service to specify how the gains of war were to be divided . |
| 2 | One has to use a quantum theory of gravity to understand how the universe began . |
| 3 | Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy showed how the ancients specially praised it . |
| 4 | From a post-structuralist perspective , Foucault 's ( 1973 ) account of the history of medicine shows how the development of hospitals from the end of the eighteenth century crucially affected these developments , framing both the organisation of medical ideas and the language in which they were embodied . |
| 5 | He suggested that there should be drawn up such an ideal optimum , and only then should the private sector be taken into account to see how the ‘ ideal ’ and the possible would diverge , but always attempting to push towards the ideal . |
| 6 | The wording is very clear and in view of the dicta in the Vestey decision and the major shift in the approach to be adopted to that section — restricting the same to the settlor and his spouse and taking into account the provisions of TA 1988 , s740 — it is felt that the Revenue will have to concede this point unless they change the law ( in which case one would have to watch very carefully what was said in Parliament to see how the change is to have effect ! ) . |
| 7 | The pattern of relationships between different family members and habitual ways of interacting need to be kept in mind to see how the family works as a system . |
| 8 | In effect , this permits the country in question to decide how the emissions are to be achieved within their national ‘ bubble ’ . |
| 9 | This extract is useful in order to illustrate how the field-worker , on the one policeman 's own admission , both needed to be tested and was successful in passing . |
| 10 | In order to predict how the universe should have started off , one needs laws that hold at the beginning of time . |
| 11 | Some people think that the law of judicial review can not be properly understood unless it is studied against the background of a particular area of governmental activity such as housing or immigration , in order to see how the general rules are use to deal with particular problems . |
| 12 | The objection need not represent the judge 's real opinion ; he makes it in order to see how the student counsel responds . |
| 13 | It is therefore important to look into the basic analysis which the Scarman Report puts forward in order to understand how the political agenda has developed , in response to the riots , since 1980 . |
| 14 | In order to understand how the Children 's Hearing system works , it is necessary to go back to the beginning and explain how it was established and how it was intended to operate . |
| 15 | In order to understand how the Occupiers ' Liability Act 1957 operates we must consider who may be an occupier and who constitute lawful visitors . |
| 16 | In order to understand how the authorities endeavour to influence interest rates in order to constrain bank lending , we need to look in some detail at the markets for bills and money . |
| 17 | Each VHW accompanied a mother on her journey through the health centre in order to feel how the mother experienced the activities at the centre . |
| 18 | I visited this nasty ailment — the one I have not got — upon Daniel Miller in order to show how the guilt or evil in his mind finds physical expression in and on his body . |
| 19 | It needs an added ingredient in order to determine how the universe should begin and what should happen when matter collapses under its own gravity . |
| 20 | Furthermore , the Committee does not in fact know how the public perceives the ambit of the law of rape , nor did it attempt to find out . |
| 21 | The story of Alice Walker 's rise to bestsellerdom emphasizes how the literary star system selects and tokenizes particular works while ignoring others . |
| 22 | And then they used to go around on a Sunday morning from farm to farm to see how the other chaps are getting on and to say how much better their horses looked . |