Example sentences of "they [verb] how the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they revealed how the secret of a happy marriage is compromise . |
| 2 | Four of the watchers , experienced men , not easy to shock , had to undergo therapy as they described how the figure of the youth was picked up and hurled twenty yards towards them , like a rag doll , first flying , then bouncing and rolling in a twisted assembly of disjointed limbs . |
| 3 | They show how the name of the root package can be supplied to the programs from the DCL command line and how the remainder of the parameters can be set up as in-line code . |
| 4 | They show how the name of the root package can be supplied to the programs from the DCL command line and how the remainder of the parameters can be set up as in-line code . |
| 5 | They show how the complexity level of the techniques used can be varied to suit the client . |
| 6 | Proceeding from the system of exchanges of energy and mass in the biosphere and between the atmosphere and land surface , they show how the functions of an ecosystem require a never-ending series of exchanges of energy , water , atmospheric gases and mineral nutrients between the organic and inorganic parts of the system . |
| 7 | They show how the market for solicitors ' work has altered with the development of criminal legal aid and the threat to established sources of income from divorce , conveyancing and personal injury claims . |
| 8 | I do not have the statistics to hand , but they show how the number of smokers differs between socio-economic groups . |
| 9 | They told how the man whom they had trusted and referred to as ‘ Dad ’ fondled them indecently while they sat on his knee in their pyjamas watching television in his rooms at Elm Tree Farm Community Home , Stockton , Cleveland . |
| 10 | A meal would only cost five francs but they noticed how the prices went up if their escorts were American , English or Australian . |
| 11 | They demonstrate how the integration of cost and effectiveness insights within ‘ value for money ’ and ‘ efficiency ’ reviews has revealed how poor are the costs data ‘ lovingly tended by local authority accountants over many years ’ and how limiting are the so-called effectiveness data . |
| 12 | They showed how the organization of the schools played a part in the failure of certain pupils , and how the institution of streaming was actually helping to produce the very attitudes which led to the failure of children placed in the lower streams ( Burgess 1988 ) . |
| 13 | We call them Greek myths and they tell how the gods and their companions ruled and organised the world . |
| 14 | When they know how the pen will respond they no longer need to think about it , and will eventually be unaware of skilful minor corrective movements . |
| 15 | In the introduction they outline how the encounter with postmodern theory has literally expanded and diversified the discourses of feminist art historians producing what they define as ‘ neo-Marxist ’ , ‘ constructivist ’ and ‘ poststructuralist ’ accounts in addition to their own ‘ liberal feminist ’ project . |
| 16 | They must have all walked out on the movie before they saw how the tale ends . |
| 17 | They illustrate how the DES is concerned with all aspects of education , though at a broad , policy-making level ; the administration of most of the areas is at present the responsibility of the LEAs . |
| 18 | Police and their supporters say officers nearing contract renewal , might feel compelled to boost their arrest records , and they wonder how the work of Barry Critchley and the late Patrick Dunn , low key potentially dangerous , can be measured against higher profile colleagues . |
| 19 | And the place smelled too , of hot bodies , hot electrical equipment , and the fumes of whisky ; not surprising that , considering the amount of the stuff they swallowed during the half-hour he had spent in that crowded room full of people who talked to one another in an incomprehensible private language , and at him as though he were a stupid child when they explained how the program would run . |