Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aah thowt as 'ow 'e 'd 'ave more sense . ’ |
| 2 | For years I cut the grass — and living on water , grass grows at a prodigious and unnatural rate — and while doing so spent hundreds of man hours considering how I might stop it growing . |
| 3 | Some of the larger groups of Munros demand personal route planning , since the permutations of how one may bag them are endless . |
| 4 | Part Five , Planning and Assessment , contains detailed examples of how one might go about planning a topic based drama . |
| 5 | Most of the ideas , techniques and strategies described in Part Two hold good for working with young children , but it is worth devoting time to a specific discussion of how one might adapt the work on still image and forum theatre for use with this age group , as they are sometimes thought to be strategies that can only be successfully used with older children . |
| 6 | Figure 24.4 gives an example ( drawn from trajectories on the screen of a videotape of the motion ) of how one might see the bob moving if one glanced at it at a succession of equally spaced times — although one would not expect to see just this sequence ever again . |
| 7 | Bogue and Buffa ( 1986 , pp. 169–70 ) provide an indication of how one might proceed with such tests . |
| 8 | Having accounted for how action types might acquire conventional but unstructured meanings , he advances straightaway to a discussion of how one might come into an alien community and find evidence that their linguistic interactions are structured ( syntactically and semantically ) . |
| 9 | Marshall raised the question of how one could go about drawing financial-value contours on a portfolio grid . |
| 10 | The question of how one could broach the topic of reducing his responsibilities was not , then , an easy one . |
| 11 | We shall look at a fragment of spoken discourse , not in terms of how we would characterise the participants ' shared information , but in terms of a process in which each participant expresses a personal topic within the general topic framework of the conversation as a whole . |
| 12 | Even naturalistic styles of aquascape do not replicate nature , but are an idealised vision of how we would like nature to be . |
| 13 | And , to try and give options for members , at different expenditure levels of how we may move forward , because it is n't a cheap process , or not if we follow the Lancashire model it is n't a cheap process , but of course we can scale our proposals down . |
| 14 | A brief account of Bourdieu 's notion of ‘ habitus ’ provides an example of how we might assimilate the apparent paradox of an external physical world which is nevertheless in a more immediate relationship with the unconscious than the world of articulate symbolism . |
| 15 | What we 've got also is indicated a bit of how we might process it if we implement this sort of thing . |
| 16 | As yet we have only a very limited understanding of how we might set about determining ‘ the depth of the pragmatic context which is necessary ’ for interpretation . |
| 17 | ANOTHER example of how we will save money by appropriate use of P.E . |
| 18 | The root problem here is the question of how we can arrive at absolutely certain and reliable knowledge . |
| 19 | But it has n't really bitten into the issue of how we can control and operate and exploit the total environment . |
| 20 | Right , I 'm going to go through methods of how we can detect structural change by the non constant parameters . |
| 21 | Aspirations , a sense of how we can realise our potential , give us power and motivation . |
| 22 | But , even if we are able to measure them , we then have the further problem of how we can distinguish their significance from the effects of normal maturation . |
| 23 | Erm , some film producer sitting in London , thinks of a rural county , he 'll probably think of Shropshire , and I think this is typical example of how we can dribble away our scarce resources on a couple of thousand here , a couple of thousand there to other bodies , erm , I am , I 'm , I 'm against this proposal , we 'll keep our money for essential items . |
| 24 | Unless we face up to that fact , moreover , any discussion of how we can safeguard certain democratic arrangements that we regarded as part of the British ‘ constitution ’ in the past ( e.g. the independence of local government ) or entrench others ( e.g. a Bill of Rights ) against an ‘ elective dictatorship ’ will run into the sand . |
| 25 | There remains the question of how we should view a bacterial species — for example , the Escherichia coli popular with geneticists . |
| 26 | The chorus finally appears to offer a chilling exegesis of how we should regard Faustus 's hellish fate : |
| 27 | ‘ I do think improvisation has become like some born-again cult , like the church of Scientology , with all these golden rules of how we should do it , ’ says Merton . |
| 28 | If humans were not perceived as capable of autonomous action , the question of how we should explain the social world would be transformed , in a way that — as Althusser 's work reveals — it is hard to imagine . |
| 29 | This brings us to the question of how we should consider that portion of the surplus-value which is unproductively consumed . |
| 30 | Er , I must n't be guilty of commercials but in the last council meeting of the night , again the subject came up of how we could welcome people coming to mass and this is nothing to do with a request council at all and er we ended up , and I think it 's fair to say what we decided er here , that people would individually they did n't know approach them . |