Example sentences of "[to-vb] how [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 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 .
10 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 . ’
11 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 ? ) .
12 It will be helpful to consider a typical general example , and then to illustrate how a balance between these two considerations can be achieved .
13 For example , the reading lists supplied by colleges were intended ‘ merely to illustrate how the aim of the course will be implemented .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Easy to understand how the road to hell came to be paved with them .
17 It is necessary to understand how the principle of supportive relationships would affect an organisation structure .
18 For otherwise , it is impossible to understand how the tendency to certain acquired movements is inherited .
19 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 .
20 I am utterly unable to understand how the retention by the trustees in their own hands of a portion of the income which they receive in order to pay lawful claims upon the fund , and charges which probably the lady herself would have had to pay or get paid for her , if she were resident in New York , and which the trustees will have to account for fully , can change the " origin or parentage " of the residue of the income received , lodged with the bankers of the beneficiaries .
21 I am utterly unable to understand how the retention by the trustees in their own hands of a portion of the income which they receive in order to pay lawful claims upon the fund … can change the " origin or parentage " of the residue of the income received [ and ] lodged with the bankers of the beneficiary .
22 To understand how the congruity between the two is achieved demands an investigation of marketing , designers ( as by Forty 1986 ) and other distributive agencies .
23 But this fails to recognise how the manner of the return powerfully conditioned attitudes and institutional behaviour .
24 We shall then go on to consider how the notion of ‘ topic ’ relates to representations of discourse content .
25 In particular , we go beyond the introduction to the tabular summary given in Chapter 2 to consider how the presentation of a table can be manipulated to reveal the information content to best effect .
26 To consider how the structure of an organisation comprises all its arrangements for dividing up its activities and co- ordinating them .
27 Finally , rather than stereotyping scientists as capitalist Frankensteins , making monsters for commercial gain , a more constructive approach would be to consider how the allocation of resources can be altered to meet the needs of the public majority rather than those of a minority in power .
28 It might be helpful at this point to consider how the opera as a whole works along comparable lines .
29 Ehrenpreis goes on to consider how the distinction between deserving and undeserving poor operates in the work of a wide range of writers .
30 to consider how the administration of the tests might be organized in schools ;
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