Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Whenever it came to matters of personal security , suggestions for improving it were welcome from any quarter . |
2 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
3 | The pupils concentrated on the science of light and colour , and how it related to art . |
4 | I 'll just have to see how it responds to treatment . ’ |
5 | In contrast to the balanced growth incidence analysis , we now allow k to vary and we are interested in how it responds to changes in the level of debt , with the taxes being adjusted to secure budget balance . |
6 | The answers should have important implications for understanding how the normal nervous system develops and functions and how it responds to injury and disease . |
7 | As the train approached Wolverhampton , Powell the historian told me about the foundation of the town in the 10th century and how it grew to prosperity making weapons for the Civil War . |
8 | That is not how it seemed to people in Ajdabiya or Kufra . |
9 | But this is not how it seemed to Richard . |
10 | Clearly that will not be the case that that 's how it goes to council . |
11 | A photographer has to really be aware of this , and how light relates to colour and how it relates to black and white . |
12 | Some might be worrying about their dancing and how it looks to onlookers , others might be worried about their partner 's nervous shuffling from foot to foot — what will people be thinking ? |
13 | In fact that 's how it seems to work . |
14 | That is n't how it seems to Martin Dyer 's family . |
15 | ‘ Shall we see how it reacts to laser and plasma ? ’ suggested Jaq . |
16 | Finally , environmental externalities occur when the actions of firm i affects the attitudes or expectations of j in a way which affects how it reacts to i 's actions . |
17 | Hilton sums up the whole process as he has defined it in Book One through the two images of sin and Christ with a quotation from Galatians 4:19 : Scale 1 , then , maps the whole area of the contemplative life and shows it may be accessed through inner participation in the truth revealed at the Incarnation : Most of the book , however , is occupied with the effort to clarify the process by which the reformation to the likeness of Jesus in his manhood may be begun , the experience of this likeness in the reformed " " of the soul and how it leads to contemplation of the Godhead is not explored in any fullness although it is present as a stated goal . |
18 | Travel : An offer you can refuse Mark Edmonds is all for haggling — but not when it turns to meanness |
19 | The right time was when it went to war . |
20 | For someone who appeared so gleefully wicked and amoral , Cleo seemed surprisingly dim when it came to character judgment . |
21 | Of course , some were able to pull through on sheer physical strength , quickness and resilience , but there is evidence to suggest that shrewdness or guile were useful properties to have when it came to self-preservation . |
22 | In 1979 , when it came to power after a long and vicious civil war the new government detained between 7,000 and 8,000 former members of the National Guard . |
23 | And wounded pride was something that she could quite easily cope with when it came to Jonathan Whalley . |
24 | From the later period of canal cutting to the early one of railway building there was clearly a link in the inheriting of a core of toughened labourers and foremen who , even if posterity has chosen to present them as the antithesis of skilled , at very least knew what they were doing when it came to tunnels , cuts and embankments . |
25 | Russia was being left behind when it came to efficiency of production . |
26 | Erm now erm as regards when it happens to people erm , again going back to this B B C Childwatch Survey um of girls sixty percent reported that the first incident happened when they were ten , forty percent of boys reported the first incident occurred when they were under ten so it seems , if you look at the sort of average , averages are quite deceptive in this area but nevertheless if you look at the average um it seems to happen slightly earlier for girls than for boys . |
27 | That was less than many analysts had expected , partly because the parent company had decided to defer its ‘ management fee ’ ( 3% of gross revenues until 1997 , when it rises to 6% ) until Euro Disney becomes profitable . |
28 | ‘ We seem to be travelling all the time when it comes to cups , and indeed we will be at Instonians in the next round of the Touche Ross at the beginning of June , ’ said Garfield . |
29 | But it seems likely that more than four million disabled people and full-time carers are discouraged , disenfranchised and/or discriminated against when it comes to voting . |
30 | A good deal of the care of them is common sense , but it is extraordinary what an uncommon quality that is when it comes to books . |