Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should any one ask how Plato 's discernment of divine creation and even of the divine Triad could be so close to the now known truth , the answer is that he had read the books of Moses on his visit to Egypt . |
| 2 | I think I know how Armstrong 's answer to this would begin . |
| 3 | Rain said not quite , and enquired how Emelda 's book on the subjection of Italian women was going . |
| 4 | In 1819 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs acquired a permanent Asiatic desk , and in the same year Alexander I created an inter-ministerial body , the Asiatic Committee , to consider how Russia 's trade with the Orient could best be maintained and improved . |
| 5 | Later , in the chapter on modern French structuralism , we shall see how Saussure 's concept of the linguistic sign can lead to theories of the non-linguistic aspects of literature as well as of its language . |
| 6 | Here are just a few fictional examples of how people 's quality of life could be improved by community care services : |
| 7 | One must be to help shape public awareness about how Britain 's role in the world has changed . |
| 8 | We recently did a simple experiment which happens to illustrate how children 's knowledge of where an object is determines their behaviour . |
| 9 | In the present chapter , I shall focus on word meaning rather than grammar in lexical development , and look in particular at how children 's acquisition of word meanings is governed by two pragmatic principles of language use , Conventionality and Contrast . |
| 10 | Diane White will explain how Zanussi 's range of combination ovens , cookers , microwaves and fridges can make light work of Christmas cooking . |
| 11 | She devotes the major part of the book to showing how psychology 's view of children has become more rounded . |
| 12 | Delicate period details of the 1940s show how Demy 's infatuation with cinema developed ; the film even includes some of his apprentice efforts . |
| 13 | Earlier we stressed how sociology 's development as an academic discipline has not been uniform all over the world . |
| 14 | This is no time to go into further consideration of how Spinoza 's view of the world may relate to the Aristotelian . |
| 15 | However Sarah 's enjoyment of publicity overcame the circumspection a royal girlfriend is expected to display . |
| 16 | For instance , the afternoon when Twomey 's touch with the tea tray 's unfolding legs , successful for forty years , failed him , and teapot , Spode teacups , scones , sandwiches and blackcurrant jam crashed to the floor . |
| 17 | He had grounds of his own for concern at Edward 's policies , particularly in the Low Countries where Edward 's marriage with Philippa of |
| 18 | Kael joined the magazine in 1968 and remains there to this day , her tenure only briefly interrupted in 1978 when Paramount 's offer of a consulting job tempted her to Hollywood . |
| 19 | One wonders why Lacan 's narrative of the genesis of the subject has to pass ‘ through ’ this flaw in the female anatomy — a flaw in the ‘ proper ’ functioning of the female body . |
| 20 | I said that I could not imagine being an atheist at any time before 1859 , when Darwin 's Origin of Species was published . |
| 21 | IT IS impossible to understand the Victorian age without understanding why Darwin 's theory of the origin of species was so disturbing ; and perhaps it is equally impossible to understand the argument over evolution without learning why it was so fiercely resisted , by scientists as well as laymen . |
| 22 | Saturday night is lottery night here in the streets of Dublin , where Ireland 's game of chance is engrained on the culture . |
| 23 | We can now see clearly why Adorno 's conceptualization of the twentieth century avant-garde is so narrow : it must meet the criteria established by his theory of autonomy . |
| 24 | By 1857 when Agassiz 's Essay on Classification appeared , as an introduction to a never-completed work on the natural history of the USA , it was already difficult to believe that Noah 's flood had really been a world-wide catastrophe with animals surviving two by two ; indeed Agassiz 's work on ice ages had involved reinterpretation of data that seemed evidence of the Flood . |
| 25 | It is for these reasons that his approach seems the more fruitful of the two in understanding the situation in advanced capitalist societies during the last twenty or thirty years , when Adorno 's conception of artistic totality , mirror image of an increasingly global , oppressive industrial totality , presents a theoretical cul-de-sac ; when , by contrast , we are actually bombarded by an increasingly heterogeneous mix of musical methods and messages , often seemingly cut free from traditions and sources , shifted around at random ; when listeners do seem to some extent to have learned , gradually , new perceptual skills , through several decades of habituation , enabling more active comparison of styles , a greater variety of uses and a more ‘ ironic ’ relationship to the stream of musical products ; and when the main opportunities for critique and subversion lie not in head-on ‘ romantic ’ protest but in exploiting temporary spaces , in the cracks and at the margins , within the monolith itself . |
| 26 | ‘ At a time when Scotland 's supply of quality players is limited , McCoist can make this tie less of a banana skin than it looks , ’ said Roxburgh , who freely admits he would rather his team were playing Germany , Italy or the Netherlands . |
| 27 | ‘ This is where ITV 's commitment to spending on popular programmes has paid off . ’ |
| 28 | The launch comes at a time when Rover 's share of the record UK car market is slipping . |
| 29 | That is where Bristol 's link with Martin Pipe started . |
| 30 | So , in 1125 , when Clito 's violation of the Ypres fair peace provided an excuse , the burghers of Ghent sent to Bruges for support in pressing the claims of Thierry of Alsace . |