Example sentences of "of [verb] how the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process is rooted in what has happened already , in the past ; the Boo– of Changes allows you the luxury of seeing how the process will continue in a hypothetical future — in this case , if you shoot Auntie Flo . ’ |
| 2 | Darwin is thus treated as a major figure in the history of science because he both popularized the general theory of evolution and discovered the mechanism that seems to offer the best prospect of explaining how the process works . |
| 3 | Although Sollas referred to natural selection , he elsewhere ridiculed Darwin 's theory as incapable of explaining how the higher types were actually produced . |
| 4 | There were no indications that the original hypothesis was incorrect ( ie that the information requirements of an organisation could be derived by the progressive decomposition of a primary task model ) , and the study entered the next phase of deciding how the information base could be used in practice . |
| 5 | It is clear that the planning meeting was for the purpose of deciding how the period in secure accommodation should be managed . |
| 6 | In all the Odes there is scarcely a strophe , perhaps hardly a line , that does not transmute word order into word mosaic , a deliberate fragmentation that creates for the reader the pleasurable tension of wondering how the sense will be resolved , accompanied by the stimulus of casual associations , as one word runs against another . |
| 7 | helps me to sort of see how the lesson 's going . |
| 8 | The ethnography was a means of observing how the wider patterns of society — its inequalities and histories of domination — flow through patterns of living and thinking which seem so ordinary . |
| 9 | The British , perhaps because they are jealous of the splendour at Versailles , are fond of recounting how the courtiers used to relieve themselves in the passageways . |
| 10 | Since the coalition broke up after the defeat of Germany there is no way of knowing how the policy outlined in the full employment promise of May 1944 might have been implemented without the profound changes in the role of the State in peacetime economic life introduced by the post-war Labour government . |
| 11 | Such questions point up the importance of recognizing how the reality principles of power are reworked ‘ intra-discursively ’ . |
| 12 | This chapter has the practical purpose of showing how the apparatus of linguistic description can be used in analysing the style of a prose text . |
| 13 | But it has passed the actual resolution of those problems back to the schools , and has charged schools and LEAs together with the task of reviewing how the curriculum as a whole can best secure the aims of the Act . |
| 14 | This was explicitly recognized by the early twentieth century physiologists who saw their fundamental task as that of discovering how the infinite variety of the perceived world could be reflected in , or reconstructed in , the rather monotonous nervous system . |
| 15 | Call it a rites-of-passage novel , a coming-of-age novel or a coming-out novel , it is usually a writer 's way of exploring how the early years can irritate to life the otherwise dormant sensitivities that produce the itch to write fiction . |
| 16 | School management will have the key task of planning how the institution is to adapt and change to meet the challenge of providing effective education for pupils and students in the 1990s . |