Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] how the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | With his by now legendary disregard for anything current which was n't The Smiths or his personal protégé ( the superb Easterhouse fell in his favour at this time ) , Morrissey performed ceremonial destruction with Sade , Style Council , Ultravox , Carmel , Genesis , Marilyn and , ironically enough , Blue Rondo who by this time were probably bragging about how The Smiths once supported them ; poetic justice indeed . |
2 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
3 | ‘ No , ’ she said carefully , marvelling at how the steam conducted the sound . |
4 | DASA are now looking into how the money can be raised to acquire the Dak , then to operate her and where she can be realistically based . |
5 | They guarantee you a known minimum cash fund and/or pension on your retirement and , while the guaranteed amount is not usually very high , bonuses are added at regular intervals , according to how the investments in the fund perform . |
6 | What it means to be a reader varies according to how the text is circulated , what kinds of attention are paid to it , in what social setting . |
7 | Study of the people , according to the discussion in this chapter , involves their characterization according to how the world of work is organized , how social life outside work is structured in its manifold ways , and how politics are constructed ( Johnston , 1990b ) . |
8 | When looking at the amount of the benefit under s740 of TA 1988 some assistance may be obtained by looking at how the problem is dealt with in other areas of taxation . |
9 | NOW THAT China has joined the two international copyright conventions , it is worth looking at how the revolution in knowledge dissemination has affected the region . |
10 | Reader manipulation is another recurring feature that in some ways is obvious looking at how the book is written but as you 're reading the book you 're practically living in it and when you finish it 's almost as if a piece of your daily routine is missing and because it is an integral part of your life it is hard to distance yourself from it and analyse it . |
11 | It is worth spending a few minutes looking at how the waves are breaking and picking the best place and time to launch . |
12 | Now by looking at how the subjects perform on these tests , our researcher will be able to determine different degrees of accuracy for each of the morphemes focused upon in this way . |
13 | ‘ Looking at how the franchise industry has developed in the United States and the diversity of franchises offered there , we can expect that much greater growth is still to take place in the UK market . ’ |
14 | Images which are used by most young women as their role models and from looking at how the media presents women influences directly their own expectations of themselves . |
15 | At the John Radcliffe Hospital , Professor Andrew McMichael 's looking at how the body responds to the virus . |
16 | They 've got to keep the passengers occupied so they do n't start worrying about how the plane manages to stay up in the air . ’ |
17 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
18 | In all such cases the prevalence of such actions and the possibilities for their control are better accounted for by addressing the question of what it is that usually inhibits the actions , rather than by accounting for how the motivations arise . |
19 | Edward Ardizzone , when he provides miniature sketches for the novels of Trollope , employs decoration to establish or reflect ( depending upon how the reader encounters them ) the emotional atmosphere of the story . |
20 | The hand can be either a clenched fist or an open palm , depending upon how the defender wishes to counter attack . |
21 | The project carries out comparative cases studies in each sector focusing on how the decisions were made to introduce new micro-electronic technology and to re-design the organisation of work accordingly . |
22 | But now its mission is accomplished , cynical professionals are reflecting on how the exercise turned out to be far more laudable than expected . |
23 | We can examine individual finds or groups of them in different ways , depending on how the find was made , the area in which it occurred or the problem on which it might throw light . |
24 | The importance of this approach is to suggest that it is perceptions that are important and depending on how the management views the worker then a different style of management will develop and a different set of relationships between the management and the workforce will exist . |
25 | This did not require proof of any wrongdoing and involved the defendant undertaking , on pain of a financial penalty , either to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour , depending on how the matter was treated by the magistrates . |
26 | Depending on how the aircraft is flown , if the mixture is leaned right off , fuel burn will go down to about 80 gallons an hour , but at maximum take-off power the aircraft will burn almost 300 gallons an hour , which at one gallon ever 12 seconds is quicker than one can get water out of a household tap ! |
27 | Predation produces death assemblages that are both highly selective following the prey preferences of the predator , and modified , depending on how the predator kills and eats its prey . |
28 | It is the result of a six-year trek around the world by the Kienholzes which took them from an Indian reservation in South Dakota to China and got them thinking about how the chance of one 's birth is all important in one 's life . |
29 | ‘ I 've been thinking about how the constituent parts of the two people and the car could be transmogrified and reassembled — if Cardiff 's surmise is correct , that is . ’ |
30 | There may therefore be bargaining about how the technology is used , and the outcome will depend to some extent on the bargaining strengths and skills of workers and their union representatives . |