Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as I know , one cause of a general fall in the value of money is not open to dispute , either as theoretically possible or as practically instanced within our own experience : that is the monetisation of debt , in other words , the process whereby part of the expenditure of public authorities is financed by the creation of additional spending power . |
| 2 | One attractive hypothesis would be that there is positive feedback , whereby tension in the cable generates an intracellular chemi- cal signal for the maintenance of tension ; this would maintain an activated state in every cell containing a segment of the taut cable . |
| 3 | Before turning to the all-important Accounts , mention must be made of other methods whereby information about a company is required to be disseminated . |
| 4 | Team Pension News , which has been written in a bright , punchy style , carries an in-depth analysis of how money from the Mirror pension fund was misappropriated by Maxwell and an explanation of how a repeat can be avoided . |
| 5 | For instance , if the clause imposing the obligation only to exercise reasonable endeavours were hidden away in a set of standard terms on the back of a quotation offering in unequivocal terms to paint the house , and the job was otherwise obviously a straightforward one , it is hard to see how reliance on the clause would be reasonable . |
| 6 | Afterwards , Lexandro — still thinking fitfully of the bodies of women and of Brother Yeremi 's ambivalent attitude towards him — said to his fellow Scout , ‘ Shall we see how part of a person thrives ? ’ |
| 7 | This is very likely to signify an alliance with her family , and nothing illustrates better how discontent among the English provided political opportunities for the Scandinavians . |
| 8 | Consequently , it is an ideal location which to study in detail the interrelation between the structure of employment in the labour market and the structure of the domestic division of labour : that is , how work outside the home affects work inside the home , and vice versa . |
| 9 | USL declined to reveal how ownership of the subsidiary is apportioned . |
| 10 | Given our lack of knowledge of both how circuitry in the brain actually works and how visual perception may be mediated at the neural level , this state of affairs is scarcely surprising . |
| 11 | With respect to the individual , foreign language teachers need to know how allegiance to a language is a significant trait in the individual 's personal identity both because this has implications for the degree of acceptance of the foreign language by the learner — whether he/she is a speaker of English only or other languages too — and because the foreign language teacher may well have an advisory role to play in his/her school concerning the place of language and languages in the curriculum in general . |
| 12 | A later survey in Sheffield showed how membership of a majority party , and consequently the opportunity to implement policies one agreed with , could influence these preferences . |
| 13 | Because of shock caused among audiences by this last line , Eliot was persuaded to alter the passage , so that it is clear that shock is only a part of a deeper message which shows how contact with the primitive can renew values of faith , self-sacrifice , and idealism which seem to have become totally atrophied in the world of London cocktail party and Hollywood film . |
| 14 | In 2 we have looked at how the formal system operates between as well as within sentences ; in 3 we have seen how knowledge of the world ( about cats and gates , for example ) or of the culture ( about social roles and relationships ) enables people to make their language function as they intend and to understand how others do the same to them . |
| 15 | The dictionary shows how efficiency in the formulation of meaning can be achieved by synthesis , the grammar shows how it can be achieved by analysis . |
| 16 | He gave a perfect demonstration of how egg on the face leads a pompous body still further into the mire . |
| 17 | The attachment of importance to some and not other concepts within a particular theory is generally a reflection of certain underlying assumptions held by a theory about how society as a whole is organized and how it changes . |
| 18 | Worryingly , the plan contains few details on how spending on the army and the bureaucracy will be cut — and it is excessively vague on other points . |
| 19 | The language of the patent , ambiguous as it always is , emphasised how elimination of the spine could remove the risk of distortion and subsequent uneven distribution of pressure . |
| 20 | The Centre is a shining example of how Care in the Community is designed to work . |
| 21 | Yet , it is debatable whether or how length of the interval influences the mother 's health or survival . |
| 22 | It is amazing how qualifying as an actuary quickly changes one 's attitude ! |
| 23 | Can he say how evaluation of the tender is progressing ? |
| 24 | The project is part of a wider concern about how sound impinges uninvited on memory and how material from the eye and the ear are combined by the brain . |
| 25 | However , it is a moot point as to how representative of the Church of England the General Synod is , or indeed any other of the layers — Diocesan or Deanery . |
| 26 | The principal method of investigation is a postal inquiry followed by personal visits to selected record offices ; an attempt is also being made to assess how representative of the country as a whole the areas that have been selected are . |
| 27 | The main tunnel portal is inland at Holywell where part of the tunnel spoil will be offloaded for use in the construction of the Cheriton terminal . |
| 28 | The floor was a continuous mosaic of eight-sided tiles , the corridor walls were angled to give the corridors eight sides if the walls and ceilings were counted and , in those places where part of the masonry had fallen in , Twoflower noticed that even the stones themselves had eight sides . |
| 29 | Next they went into the main building where part of the reprocessing cycle took place . |
| 30 | The great stations stand , if they do still stand , as towering monuments to that belief , public meeting-places where faith in the perfectibility of man by his own ingenuity and the blessing of a divine providence was daily affirmed . |