Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [art] [noun sg] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever the circus came to a new town he used to dress up in his costume and go out into the streets with a clown on stilts and do a turn . |
| 2 | A communication is protected if it is made to a person who has a duty to receive and act upon it : thus complaints to " higher authority " are privileged , whenever the authority complained to is in a position to investigate or discipline or supervise . |
| 3 | There 's talk of hiring special transport and shutting down most of the offices for the morning or the afternoon , whenever the funeral happens to be . ’ |
| 4 | This is the treatment required by SSAP 1 whenever an investment ceases to be an associate . |
| 5 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 6 | The bill , after being passed by the Lords , receives the royal assent , a mere formality , whereby the monarch accedes to the bill . |
| 7 | A sales channel can also be indirect , whereby a manufacturer sells to a wholesaler or agent , who sells in smaller lots to other customers . |
| 8 | The Marind of New Guinea believe that fire has its origins in sex , and so indulge in a rite whereby a girl has to be raped in order to keep that fire alight . |
| 9 | Another potential problem for Marlow is how the public reacts to the idea of Quorn . |
| 10 | So I sent that piece under the impression that there would be no problem having it accepted and that afterwards we would see how the public reacted to it . |
| 11 | The problem then is to explain how the state came to be formed historically , through the dissolution of the primitive communal group ; and a broadly Marxist account of this process ( leaving aside here the diverse interpretations and controversies among Marxist sociologists and anthropologists ) rests essentially upon the conception of a change in the mode of production , involving a greater inequality of property , which itself is brought about by a development of the forces of production through technological progress . |
| 12 | How the bureaucracy relates to the ruling class is more than a matter of origins . |
| 13 | It was left for Garvey to explain how the village came to be deserted and why it no longer offered cosy prospects for a snug winter . |
| 14 | To a town dweller the silence is eerie — so this is how the wilderness felt to the early explorers and settlers . |
| 15 | In step three , the facilitator asks people to personalize the trigger , to see how the problem relates to Our lives . |
| 16 | Yet this is precisely how the problem tends to be approached by official bodies . |
| 17 | The Sunday Times reporter Peter Gillman recounts how the Panel went to the Trading Standards Office at Bodmin but was told that there was nothing to be done because water was not covered by the Food Act . |
| 18 | But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given , that for anything I knew , the watch might have always been there . |
| 19 | How the myth came to be seems clear enough . |
| 20 | Paley begins Natural Theology with a famous passage : In crossing a heath , suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer , that , for anything I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer . |
| 21 | ‘ It is still not clear how the child came to be in the river , ’ a police spokesman said last night . |
| 22 | The charges were made by Derek Johnson of Southern Counties , a silver medal winner at the Olympic Games in 1956 , who told the board 's annual meeting that he wanted to correct the record on how the board came to be wound up in 1987 and its financial affairs taken over by the AAA . |
| 23 | I dropped each denomination of Cayman coin on to the sand to see how the machine responded to them . |
| 24 | But in addition there remained the puzzle of how the helium came to be in the springs . |
| 25 | God knows how the treasury comes to be so desperate poor . |
| 26 | In chapter 2 we turned our attention to the various types of bonding between atoms , ions and molecules and saw how the bonding related to the structure and properties of matter . |
| 27 | It is in this layer that historians will discover answers to their key questions : how the firm responds to opportunities and threats ; how it interacts with government , other firms , its employees , and its customers ; how it establishes R&D programs and marketing strategies ; and so on . |
| 28 | The individual 's interpretation of a situation is based on personal beliefs about communication competence — one 's own and the other person 's — and these beliefs affect how the individual relates to others , and how others relate to the individual . |
| 29 | Such leases would draw upon all the expertise of lawyers , and contain detailed plans for how the land let to the builder should be built upon . |
| 30 | Wimsatt and Beardsley 's approach is thus not a-historical , but it severely restricts the role of history in literary study , relegating questions about ‘ how the poem came to be ’ to a different , and by implication inferior , branch of enquiry . |