Example sentences of "[prep] how [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Some of the larger groups of Munros demand personal route planning , since the permutations of how one may bag them are endless . |
| 3 | Part Five , Planning and Assessment , contains detailed examples of how one might go about planning a topic based drama . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Bogue and Buffa ( 1986 , pp. 169–70 ) provide an indication of how one might proceed with such tests . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Marshall raised the question of how one could go about drawing financial-value contours on a portfolio grid . |
| 9 | The question of how one could broach the topic of reducing his responsibilities was not , then , an easy one . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Even naturalistic styles of aquascape do not replicate nature , but are an idealised vision of how we would like nature to be . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What we 've got also is indicated a bit of how we might process it if we implement this sort of thing . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ANOTHER example of how we will save money by appropriate use of P.E . |
| 17 | The root problem here is the question of how we can arrive at absolutely certain and reliable knowledge . |
| 18 | But it has n't really bitten into the issue of how we can control and operate and exploit the total environment . |
| 19 | Right , I 'm going to go through methods of how we can detect structural change by the non constant parameters . |
| 20 | Aspirations , a sense of how we can realise our potential , give us power and motivation . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There remains the question of how we should view a bacterial species — for example , the Escherichia coli popular with geneticists . |
| 25 | The chorus finally appears to offer a chilling exegesis of how we should regard Faustus 's hellish fate : |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This brings us to the question of how we should consider that portion of the surplus-value which is unproductively consumed . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | As the car chugged down the M1 motorway I stopped cursing my bad luck and thought of how we could have made the first descent if only we had concentrated on the job in hand and not got the press involved or told so many people all about our daring endeavour . |