Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given this result , it would seem that the inductivist , according to his own standpoint , is now obliged to indicate how the principle of induction can be derived from experience . |
| 2 | It will be interesting to establish how the specificity of the interaction of these proteins with DNA is determined in cells , such as P3/NS , which express all three of the POU-domain class II genes . |
| 3 | BRITISH Rail has launched an investigation to discover how a herd of cows came to be wandering down the Saltburn-Darlington line last week . |
| 4 | Wiltshire Social Services want to know how the Mail on Sunday obtained confidential information about the 14-year-old for a story it ran at the weekend . |
| 5 | Wiltshire Social Services want to know how the Mail on Sunday obtained confidential information about the 14-year-old for a story it ran at the weekend . |
| 6 | The crystalline content of a polymer has a profound effect on its properties and it is important to know how the rate of crystallization will vary with the temperature , especially during the processing and manufacturing of polymeric articles . |
| 7 | Certainly one of the most important concerns of the project manager is to know how the time of his team , and particularly his own , is spent . |
| 8 | It is interesting to observe how the usage of the drawing sub-files changes depending on the person 's role . |
| 9 | It 's easier to guess why a reduction in market share is taking place than obtain the basic facts and make improvements . |
| 10 | Given the confusion and currency-turmoil that would be — still could be — provoked by the crumbling of this treaty , it is hard to know where the unravelling of Western Europe 's mutual openness would stop . |
| 11 | It is not difficult to infer where the information on curvature must come from . |
| 12 | The long-term plans could be revised on an informal basis by the chief executive of the organisation , using intuition and experience to know when the outlook for the organisation has changed sufficiently to require him or her to update the plans . |
| 13 | They seemed to know when the tragedy of the previous night had occurred , and had maybe come to the theatre in such numbers in the vague hope that they might get a repeat showing . |
| 14 | We need to know why the Origin of Species had so much influence despite the relative failure of its chief explanatory tool . |
| 15 | Peggy Greaves wanted to know why an entrance from London Road could not be made after the A3 bypass was opened . |
| 16 | Less so the next morning when , his stomach seriously disordered and his head aching , John-William had started to wonder why a man like Goldsborough who was " gentry " through and through despite his odd goings-on at the Fleece , should be making revolutionary suggestions as to how the " squires ' government might be brought down . |
| 17 | She did n't even stop to wonder why the thought of confronting Ryan again hardly bothered her . |
| 18 | If we try to imagine how a mind of superhuman power and reach , but normal so far as the logical processes of its thought are concerned , … would use the scientific method , the process would be as follows : First , all facts would be observed and recorded , without selection or a priori guess as to their relative importance . |
| 19 | As he says : ‘ it is hard to imagine how the conception of a tree as tenanted by a personal being could be more plainly expressed . ’ |
| 20 | For instance , molecular evidence suggests a close alliance between molluscs and annelids , but it is hard to imagine how an animal like the most primitive known annelid ( an archiannelid ? ) was transformed into a primitive mollusc ( a chiton ? ) . |
| 21 | A close friend of Elaine Blond , who was later to found the Blond McIndoe Centre for Medical Research , it was not too difficult to persuade McIndoe to help where the removal of a disfigurement , usually facial , could boost a patient 's confidence . |
| 22 | It will be helpful to consider a typical general example , and then to illustrate how a balance between these two considerations can be achieved . |
| 23 | For example , the reading lists supplied by colleges were intended ‘ merely to illustrate how the aim of the course will be implemented . |
| 24 | The purchaser and vendor will need to negotiate how the assumption of debtors and creditors is to be reflected in the price paid for the business . |
| 25 | Such a structure is particularly likely to form where a promontory on the advancing edge of the continent on the subducting plate collides with the opposing continent well before the rest of the continental margin ( Fig. 3.20(E) , ( F ) ) . |
| 26 | To understand how the development of different structures is controlled by genes , how the genes in the fertilized egg of a sea-urchin , frog or chimpanzee result in the emergence of that animal . |
| 27 | Easy to understand how the road to hell came to be paved with them . |
| 28 | It is necessary to understand how the principle of supportive relationships would affect an organisation structure . |
| 29 | For otherwise , it is impossible to understand how the tendency to certain acquired movements is inherited . |
| 30 | You do n't have to believe in God in order to practise astronomy or to understand how the movement of the planets is regulated , as might have been thought to be the case before Isaac Newton 's time . |