Example sentences of "[vb -s] how the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 A series of leaflets is available which describes how the various services which are available can be used .
2 In his careful assessment of this process , Wood shows how the existing authorities kept up their Pressure for local interests — essentially for as much of the existing structure as they could maintain intact — until the last possible moment for amendments ( Wood 1976:Ch .
3 Hincmar also shows how the chief officers kept " the confederation of the whole realm glued together with the palace " .
4 The Viewpoint 93 documentary shows how the Allied powers which liberated Kuwait have been reluctant to help the Shias .
5 Figure 4.4 shows how the absolute amounts spent on the services covered in this book stagnated in real terms after 1974 .
6 The factor machine at the side of this page shows how the prime factors of 60 are taken out .
7 This example shows how the prime factors of 72 are worked out using repeated division .
8 Figure 18.1 shows how the total casualties fell over this period even though the number of vehicles on the road was increasing .
9 Although this balance is not entirely based on direct measurements , it shows how the observed interactions between sulphate reducing bacteria and methanogenic bacteria in vivo can be understood as competition for the mutual substrate hydrogen .
10 Figure 3.3 shows how the volume-temperature plots of a gas all extrapolate back to zero volume at 0 K.
11 Schafer ( 1981 ) offers a useful historical survey in which he shows how the founding fathers of modern linguistics , de Saussure and Bloomfield , reacting against the total neglect of speech in the pre-existing traditions of rhetoric and grammar , asserted the primacy of speech .
12 A study of Cheshire in the first quarter of the fifteenth century , however , shows how the social ties of the gentry class were rooted in the locality .
13 Table 6 shows how the respective times of the farmer , his wife , and family , were divided between on-farm and off-farm occupations .
14 He shows how the same events can be given at least three explanations , each related to different facts , or to the same facts differently interpreted .
15 This again shows how the metric connections correspond to the inertial accelerations and forces of classical mechanics .
16 For example , Whyte in her report on GIST , tells how the visiting speakers were told to ‘ present themselves as ‘ rounded ’ feminine beings , i.e. mention how they combined home and family life with their jobs ' ( 1986 : 74 ) .
17 Dance rhythm means how the varying lengths of notes are grouped together within a phrase .
18 Here , the researcher explores how the foraging patterns develop in a similar way to the patterns that can be produced on a computer by following simple , repetitive rules .
19 The report explains how the antioxidant vitamins A , C and E are able to neutralise potentially carcinogenic and atherosclerotic free radicals which are produced naturally in the body , but which need to be effectively ‘ mopped up ’ by antioxidant vitamins .
20 It explains how the different types are made and what the names mean .
21 He explains how the mathematical tools of congruence , transformation , invariance and groups are used to define symmetry and to classify its variety .
22 For all countries the ten-year difference in the two sets of pyramids demonstrates how the excess births of one generation moves through the population , creating a successive need for new schools , jobs , houses and , ultimately , pensions .
23 For Sahlins demonstrates how the obscure histories of remote islanders take a place alongside our self-contemplations of a European past — a supposed history of civilisation — for their own contributions to a historical understanding .
24 Theory Z was put forward by W G Ouchi as an ‘ advance ’ on Theory Y. It attempts to draw on the successful management techniques of large Japanese companies , and suggests how the key elements of successful Japanese management methods can be applied to Western management and organisation .
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