Example sentences of "how [pron] can [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I do n't see how I can be involved here politically , it 's not my place . |
| 2 | I surrender even the question as to how I can be standing here in her virgin company , and still be told that where she is I may never come . |
| 3 | The view that religion is a response to revealed truth , and the implications of this with regard to how we can be expected to find out about it , are not normally considered at all . |
| 4 | The substance of all that has so far been written in this chapter illustrates how there can be established a firm belief that God and man have developed from a common origin , the origin itself being irrelevant . |
| 5 | In effect what applied linguistics does is to enquire into cross-cultural accommodation : it transfers ideas and methods from different disciplinary cultures and seeks to demonstrate how they can be made coherent and effective in the different conditions of pedagogic practice . |
| 6 | Starting out with the Boston Consultancy Group , and eventually forming his own firm , Telesis ( Greek for well-planned progress ) , Mr Magaziner specialised in advising large companies ( Ford and General Electric ) and small countries ( Sweden ) on why things cost as much as they do , and how they can be made to cost less . |
| 7 | If we wish to store and manipulate normal form programs in computers it will be worthwhile investigating this and other topics to discover how they can be made more compact . |
| 8 | Fear trained on-site Colombian drillers , mud loggers and well superintendents and their assistants as to which PDC drill bits are the most efficient for various different formations , and how they can be made to drill faster . |
| 9 | The whole scene demonstrates admirably Britten 's approach to words and his understanding of how they can be made vehicles , both for meanings which go beyond their own familiar significations , and for a special kind of music which comes , by some alchemy , from the combination of phonemes and notes . |
| 10 | Ted , based at Research in Coventry in the UK , is involved in environmental work , studying emerging methods of pollution control and considering how they can be applied to Group businesses . |
| 11 | This section discusses these pensions , how they can be increased by additional voluntary contributions , how you can build up a pension if you have no access to an employer 's scheme and how divorce affects your right to your ex-husband 's pension . |
| 12 | What I shall do now is try to back up this last statement by sketching some of the characteristics of childish thought , showing how they can be explained in constructivist terms . |
| 13 | The Arab world has now broken up into three separate components and it is difficult to see how they can be reassembled . |
| 14 | He blames himself for being naive about how such centres come into being , and about how they can be run . |
| 15 | Similarly , with a clearly enunciated history curriculum other departments in the school can see how they can be served on occasion or a basis can be laid in history which they can reinforce . |
| 16 | The scheme booklet should give you the names of the individuals and advise you how they can be reached . |
| 17 | There are plenty on the sample but that is to show how they can be built up . |
| 18 | In later chapters ( such as chapter six ) we will examine doubts like these in depth to see how they arise and how they can be resolved . |
| 19 | It also requires the experience gained from having operated the facilities to understand where the pitfalls are and how they can be avoided . |
| 20 | A person who knows about the different audio-visual and programmed formats , how they work , how they can be repaired , or what in general they are capable of . |
| 21 | This will include information about risk factors and how they can be changed for the long-term good . |
| 22 | We need to know how things are related , not just how they can be taken apart . |
| 23 | When the boy is with his father or the girl is with her mother in the garden , as they constantly are , they learn about the birds they see , the birds that are harmful to the crops , how they can be dealt with , and what birds can be eaten . |
| 24 | If there were areas where you were weak , do n't dwell on them but see how they can be strengthen . |
| 25 | Look at plants from all angles to determine how they can be used — maybe you could remove the petals and make a smaller flower with just a few of them ? |
| 26 | Having emphasised the differences between these two approaches , statistical and conceptual , we shall now see how they can be used together . |
| 27 | It will therefore be wise to record details of job changes and about leavers No doubt there are gaps in my scenario , but the range of activity I have described provides ample scope for the beneficial use of computers , so let us see how they can be used In doing so I shall make particular reference to the value of microcomputers . |
| 28 | ‘ It will provide a showcase to business people of all the attributes the industry has in Scotland and how they can be used , while getting a real exchange going as to how it should develop in the future . ’ |
| 29 | This will highlight the respective advantages and disadvantages of the two approaches and show how they can be used to complement one another in the analysis and presentation of large complex datasets . |
| 30 | They look at examples of illuminated manuscripts , and investigate how they can be used as evidence for life in the Middle Ages . |