Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [noun] [vb -s] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If we accept that public opinion broadly comes in two varieties : the popular and what can be regarded as the informed , each of the two strands is clearly visible whenever Parliament addresses the topic of criminal justice .
2 The garden was and still is his paradise and his pride and joy , and whenever Charles has the time he will put on a pair of old trousers , find a spade and get down to some real manual labour .
3 Considered against the proud advances made in the arts and sciences whereby humanity improves the quality of life on earth , the conclusion must be that this is a shameful situation .
4 Water erosion , whereby rain washes the topsoil off hillsides , is becoming an increasing problem in the United Kingdom , worsened by high-gear agriculture and drainage .
5 The later term that Freud adopted to this super ego has become synonymous in people 's minds with conscience the idea of the super ego as the the role of conscience and presum presumably that 's another aspect of the same thing and er Serg Moskovicy in his excellent book Age of the Crowd erm which is on the reading list which I can thoroughly recommend in discussing this point of how Freud sees the leader as the kind of super ego of the followers quotes one of the Nuremberg war criminals , I forget which it was now erm Goering or Goebbels or one of these er people who when asked of the Nuremberg war tribunals why did you do the things you did , replied Adolf Hitler was my conscience and that 's er that 's a very erm good example of this idea of er how the the role of conscience can be transferred from the individual to the , to the leader of the group and I suppose Dean you would say erm illustrates one of the greatest dangers of group , group membership because er obviously if if that happens in a group , then erm individuals are to some extent erm surrendering their moral self-responsibility and of course if Freud 's insight is correct , then there was an element of truth in in this in this excuse Adolf Hitler was my conscience .
6 Riggs , for example , dwells on how bureaucracy restricts the development of other political institutions , notably political parties , local government and autonomous and spontaneous pressure groups , and on the weakness of legislatures , judiciaries and even chief executives .
7 The research aims to determine why management supports and how management measures the success of a Quality Circle programme .
8 We can see how Mill resolves the issue if we turn to his editorial footnote to his father 's Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind ( 1869 ) .
9 While putting sex back into politics , there has been little recognition of how appearance affects the politics of sex .
10 The supporters at Devonshire Park are looking forward to seeing how Pam handles the transfer from the U.21 event to the senior event .
11 The invisible contribution of transport David Robinson on how transport helps the balance of payments
12 We have already seen how Althusser rejects the claim that individuals are intentional subjects , and argues instead that this self-perception is a result of ideological practice .
13 But I do know , in general terms , how Fagg manipulates the provender committee and Chatterton creams off the most expensive wines from the cellar to add to the committee 's disposable income . ’
14 But if that is how God clothes the grass in the fields , which is there today , and tomorrow is thrown on the stove , will he not all the more clothe you ?
15 And this how li , this is how God spreads the gospel , this is how he spreads his message through his people through using his pe , using in the very best sense of the word , he does n't make use of us he involves us in his work , and so , he saves us , he satisfies us and then he sends us forth , and he does that with this woman .
16 ‘ I am powerful precisely because I understand how habit trammels the mind 's energy , d'ye see ?
17 How Ashton reflects the period and quality of the music
18 But if that is how Jacob reads the vision , then God is playing with him .
19 Yet this notion of compassionate leave is one of the indications we have of how society accepts the significance of having someone close to us die .
20 How McShane puts the swoon into Sunday
21 Much has been learnt since then about how paracetamol damages the liver .
22 Walker ( 1981 ) , for example , has shown how psychology regards the male as ‘ norm ’ ; any results which show that women behave differently tend to be either ignored or dismissed as an anomaly .
23 Anne H. Hay has remarked : " Vasulka 's computer-generated forms convey literally how memory distorts the shape of events , and how permeable is the photograph as a container of supposed truth . "
24 The drunken miller 's incoherency , " " as he were on the quakke " " ( 4152 ) recalls how Nicholas puts the equivalent of an ass 's head on John the carpenter by portraying him , absurdly , as a duck swimming above the Second Flood ( 3575 – 6 ) .
25 This project is concerned with how location influences the competitiveness , efficiency and growth of small firms manufacturing like products in different regions .
26 How Sombro dodges the nick
27 Most people 's view of how technology alters the workplace barely takes into account this shift in the emphasis of who controls production .
28 How language makes the world , how thought makes being .
29 First check how power reaches the socket from which you plan to run the spur — we 'll call this socket A. It may be supplied by a ring circuit ( there will be two circuit cables emerging from the 30amp fuseway ) , or a radial circuit ( only one cable at the fuseway ) .
30 Notice , for example , in the sentences quoted above , how Marquez uses the verb ‘ waking 34 CREATIVE WRITING up ’ before the object ‘ souls ’ .
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