Example sentences of "how it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One must therefore ask not only what knowledge is , but how it comes into being , how it becomes accepted , who produces it , who controls it , and why it changes or does not change . |
| 2 | He also points out , in passing , that various questions of the sort which have cropped up in earlier chapters of this book , such as whether matter can think , and how it produces mental sensations , ‘ are entirely banished from philosophy ’ by the adoption of immaterialism . |
| 3 | We are already familiar with Hobbes 's fascination with motion , and how it seemed obvious to him that motion was the one basic cause . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't think how it went undetected for so long . ’ |
| 5 | In other words , black kids teach each other about the world and about how it works contrary to their interests . |
| 6 | Y'know , try and place a historical context to the work and see how it influenced other works . |
| 7 | With these , you define a chunk of text as an actor — you can do this either in the movie editor or in the Cel editor — and can then define , via dialogue boxes , how it appears onscreen , any movement you want it to have and how it departs the screen . |
| 8 | ‘ I could see what he was thinking , so I started talking about love , how it means different things to different people , and that 's when he said it . ’ |
| 9 | You know from knowing how it affects other |
| 10 | To find out how it affects Scottish farmers one need go no further than my constituency . |
| 11 | The relevant questions should not concern how local ‘ culture ’ forms local politics , but how this ‘ culture ’ itself is formed , how it is sustained or transformed , and how it affects local political activity in conjunction with a host of other structures and practices , some of which may be locally based and some of which may not . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | It sums up how it carries large loads . |
| 14 | It is time the Labour Party explained how it sees non-sectarian politics developing in Northern Ireland . |