Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [det] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 An' I du n no 'ow long I 'll be livin' 'fore I 'm sick like yore ol' lady 'angin' rahnd ver launjrette an' waitin' up fer ol' man an' 'avin' Gawd knows 'ow many kids 'angin' rahnd me an' ‘ Mummy this ’ and ‘ Mummy that ’ my Gawd if you mus ' know Sharon all my life all I fuckin' wanner do is shine up there like a dancer or sunnink .
2 The profession is considering the possible need to move to a system whereby such actuaries have to meet specific experience and ongoing training requirements as well as enhancing our mandatory professional guidance .
3 How some teams managed to climb Mount Chirripo amazed even Gerard Fusil .
4 Tomorrow in One Day at a Time we see how some families have coped with bringing up children who 've suffered head injuries .
5 He does not recognize that it is possible to alternate between the two according to the stage of industry development , and Gilbert and Strebel ( 1988 ) illustrate how some companies do outpace others in the industry on both cost and quality .
6 Others may be in positions of trust not directly derived from full-time occupation , such as scout masters — SCOUT LEADER 'S CAMPING SHAME ( Star ) — as well as those in less formal and less-easily recognisable roles ; the headline Sex shame of ‘ uncle' ( Daily Mirror ) and text ( ‘ a mild-mannered clerk known by schoolboy train fans as Uncle Roland … took boys in the Rail Riders ’ Club on trips in Britain and Europe ’ ) shows how some offenders had eased into positions of trust with youngsters .
7 It 's astonishing how some formalities have stayed on , even through the mean and hungry 1980s , for no apparent reason than that they were always done , while in other areas of activity important people are treated with the utmost disdain — or worse , with complete new-fangled insincerity .
8 The chant was so beautiful Athelstan stopped , closing his eyes to listen , until a rough-mouthed carter flicked his whip , bellowing how some men had to work and could n't laze around like stupid priests .
9 From depth interviews with fifty long-established heterosexual and some gay and lesbian couples , the project will focus not upon why couples break up but upon how some couples manage to stay together .
10 ( We saw in Chapter One how some thinkers have advocated utilitarianism in a consciously attitudinist spirit . )
11 Thus we have seen that there is considerable evidence of a living and functioning network of kin ( some sociologists write of a ‘ modified extended family ’ ) in modern industrial society and how some historians have shown how many similarities exist between the family in pre-industrial Europe and the family of our own times .
12 IT IS amazing how few critics seem to have been able to recognise Dennis Potter 's Blackeyes for what it is , just another Anglo-Australian copy of Neighbours .
13 As the next sections scan the literature , it is important to remember how few studies have given Black as well as white parents an opportunity to tell researchers about the realities of their lives .
14 Or he could start his own venue , impose his own narrow-minded door policy and see how few people turn up and how few bands agree to play .
15 Or he could start his own venue , impose his own narrow-minded door policy and see how few people turn up and how few bands agree to play .
16 It is surprising how few units have changed to a cheaper implant in the face of a limiting budget for prostheses .
17 Now that you have a clear idea of what regression therapy involves , it is time to look at the sort of problems that cause people to need such therapy — why and how such problems have arisen in the first place and how they can limit people 's lives and potential .
18 How such behaviours have evolved in the face of selection favouring the maximization of individual reproduction has been a great and tantalizing mystery to evolutionary theorists .
19 Moreover , even where it has been demonstrated that long tails are costly but are preferred by choosy females , resolving how such preferences have evolved is difficult , particularly if females gain no direct benefits from their choice of mating partners .
20 But the people involved are not naive , and know how such systems have worked abroad .
21 If you understand how such models work using proportions , you should find their use with other measures reasonably straightforward .
22 But this implies that the world is an entity other than God and God has given it freedom and thus the possibility of ‘ going wrong ’ , of producing evil , sin , pain and suffering , whatever explanation we may try to give of how such things have come about — at least they are only too obvious in the world we know .
23 It will investigate how such children do attempt to communicate , and the problems that this creates for parents .
24 Mention has been made of direct labour and of how such organisations have reduced the number of trainees by about 40 per cent .
25 It was based on the construction of a questionnaire , the Parental Attitude Research Inventory ( PARI ) , in which parents were asked to indicate their agreement with such statements as ‘ A child will be grateful later on for strict training , ’ and ‘ Children should realize how much parents have to give up for them . ’
26 Bill Morris came to Rover 's Swindon plant to see just how much things had changed .
27 Germans now are Europeans in a way they were not before , and indeed the demand of East Germans that they be allowed to be Europeans , with the same wide-ranging and unquestioned rights to travel , study , and residence as the rest of us was both a catalyst and an indication of how much things have changed .
28 Germans now are Europeans in a way they were not before , and indeed the demand of East Germans that they be allowed to be Europeans , with the same wide-ranging and unquestioned rights to travel , study , and residence as the rest of us was both a catalyst and an indication of how much things have changed .
29 You 'll also find lots of leaflets available from main showrooms which tell you how much appliances cost to run , how to cut down on costs , and helpful methods of payment if you have to economise drastically .
30 In many school situations teachers use questioning to check up on how much children have taken in .
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