Example sentences of "is [Wh adv] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is how Magdalen bridge looks today . |
| 2 | This is how Lee Marvin told it to me : |
| 3 | ‘ A great big playground ’ is how William Shawcross has described it , saying , ‘ … all the correspondents were given unlimited free joy-rides on all the military 's magnificent machines ’ . |
| 4 | This is how Chris Symonds earns his sporting glory … riding in the british bobsleigh team … he 's the number two man … and has just won himself a gold medal in the world cup competition … this weekend he competes in the world championships … he 's been back home to get ready to train for his rollercoaster ride on ice … |
| 5 | ‘ The engine room for ICI Chemicals & polymers , ’ is how Dr Nick Carey , the head of the £1.5 billion Petrochemicals business , describes its role , to Robin Penfold . |
| 6 | That is how Mrs Thatcher and her entourage are playing it and while many of the 57 , probably 59 , dissenters may disagree they , too , reinforced the Downing Street mood by prudently going to earth . |
| 7 | Which is how Mrs Abberley addressed him . |
| 8 | That is how Captain James T Kirk of the USS Enterprise first sees each week 's new adversary ; it is by flat-panel TV that Winston Smith keeps on the right side of Big Brother . |
| 9 | The prat that calls himself the Hitman is how Stock Aitken Waterman 's Pete Waterman describes himself . |
| 10 | ‘ Hello , Stoddard Templeton , can I help ’ — This is how Phyllis McQMcQuire answers the many telephone calls from customers enquiring about fabrics at Sekers , Whitehaven factory . |
| 11 | Now it is how Dorothy Heathcote sees the relationship between the two that sets her apart from most drama teachers . |
| 12 | According to local legend , this is how Kent cigarettes rather than any other brand became the currency of the black market in Romania . |
| 13 | This is how Sally Mann chooses to photograph her daughter Jessie . |
| 14 | This is how Shulamit Aloni , minister of education and leader of the left-liberal Meretz party , describes her continuing confrontation with Shas , the ultra-orthodox party of Sephardic ( oriental ) Israelis that is Yitzhak Rabin 's other partner in his Labour-led coalition government . |
| 15 | This is how Lady Furness described Mrs Simpson 's early life to Edward : |
| 16 | At least , this is how Canon Stringer , Kate 's other garden mentor , interpreted it : ‘ After all , you are St Peter 's Priory . |
| 17 | ‘ A farcical , objectless ceremony ’ is how Canon Atkinson described , in his Memorials of Old Whitby ( 1894 ) , an event taking place on the eve of Ascension Day . |
| 18 | ‘ Without a trade , without a craft , without any values — scrap iron that does not count , rubbish fit only for the waste heap ’ is how Canon Henry Scott Holland summed up the problem : ‘ We the public have used him up : he is no more to us now than a squeezed orange . ’ |
| 19 | Also described is how expert systems can enhance human expertise and allow it to be used more efficiently in the specific working environment of aircraft maintenance . |
| 20 | ‘ A ROMANCE of the last 500,000 years ’ is how Alice Walker describes her latest novel . |
| 21 | ‘ Complex , but not complicated ’ is how Fitch Benoy 's associate director Phil Wren describes the new offices/studios of Fitch-RS . |
| 22 | ‘ ABSOLUTELY delighted ’ is how David Taylor , Manager of Telford Branch described his reaction on hearing that his Branch had been appointed bankers to the Princess Royal Hospital , due to become a NHS Trust on 1 April . |
| 23 | ‘ Rubbish ’ is how Ron Dennis described our recent report that Ayrton Senna had demanded a personal motorhome and other perks from McLaren in 1991 . |
| 24 | What is crucial for learners to know is how grammar functions in alliance with words and contexts for the achievement of meaning . |
| 25 | Certainly this is how St John interpreted the story in his Gospel some forty years later ( John 6 ) . |
| 26 | " The Story of a Man Who Went Back to Nature " is how John Wyatt subtitles his autobiography . |
| 27 | The concern here is how health care is supplied and paid for . |
| 28 | ‘ Small , intimate and European ’ is how owner Stephen Flannery describes the ambience of Bar 10 which opened last month . |
| 29 | The most interesting aspect is how informing breeds informing , which breeds informing and so on , in what can be a time-consuming loop . |
| 30 | This is how Ernest Theodossin , the historian of the modular movement , describes the origins and inception of the Oxford Polytechnic scheme . |