Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going to wait to see how some other injuries settle down before I decide whether I should bring in a replacement . ’ |
| 2 | I guess we 'll just have to wait to see how it works out in the US . |
| 3 | We will have to wait to see how the new system works . |
| 4 | We have also reached back in time , using memories of grandparents from more than 600 interviews and autobiographies , to try to sense how later life may have changed over two or more centuries . |
| 5 | In writing this book , it has been my intention to try to see how war , over a period of 150 years or so , affected developments and changes in two of Europe 's leading societies , those of France and England . |
| 6 | was to try to see how things could be reduced and enlarged . |
| 7 | Because each spin may be slightly different , it is important not to try to guess how far to move forwards . |
| 8 | We tell Nat to stay where he is , brushing the snow from his bag to try to minimize how wet it will be . |
| 9 | It seems that he died after drinking brandy which had been laced with strychnine and we have to try to discover how the poison got into the brandy . ’ |
| 10 | It seems important , therefore , to try to establish how the decision to fight the election came about . |
| 11 | These views rest on different assumptions about the power and ideologies of trade union officials and the aim of this research is to try to establish how powerful are local trade union officials in their relations with shop stewards , and what sorts of ideologies inform their behaviour in these relationships . |
| 12 | One way of defining the middle classes is to try to understand how they kept themselves morally distinct from the lower orders . |
| 13 | In gaol he refused to try to understand how he came to be there and during the years of his imprisonment spent much time sobbing in his cell as a desperately hurt child sobs . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , if we are to try to understand how the Universe works , we should pay as much attention to its death as to its birth . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , there must be some feature which distinguishes the production of knowledge from that of political slogans , for example ; and we have to try to understand how the real object is transformed into the thought object . |
| 16 | In order to discover how such inferences are made , we will need firstly to examine the range of possible functions of language , and secondly to try to understand how people correctly interpret them . |
| 17 | In order to discover how such inferences are made , we will need firstly to examine the range of possible functions of language , and secondly to try to understand how people correctly interpret them . |
| 18 | The study will also collect data from a small sample of next of kin of those who have died or entered residential care to try to understand how these events affected the network and how family and friends cope with crises . |
| 19 | To find the information , the pupil had to : define exactly what he wanted to know decide how far he was able to travel to get to a sports centre find out the opening hours , which sports he was interested in and the cost of using the facilities |
| 20 | To try to decide how many patients might be suitable for transplantation , an audit was performed of admissions ot a district general hospital of patients with end stage liver disease . |
| 21 | It will be a time for you to use all the imagination of which you are capable , to try to think how you would be feeling if you were in her shoes , and to handle her fragile emotions very gently . |
| 22 | I HAD to write to say how brilliant your Zodiac File cartoon strip is . |
| 23 | The role of the counsellor is to help the individual in this process , first in understanding and determining his or her particular goals , making sure they are realistic or indeed , sufficiently ambitious ; second , to help decide how best they can be achieved ; and third , to help the individual come to terms with retirement , and to play a more active part in its outcome . |
| 24 | I have the first one in front of me to help estimate how far in from the edge I can sew . |
| 25 | However , men sometimes used this distinction to avoid thinking how to satisfy their partner physically as well as mentally . |
| 26 | The Law Societies have renewed the research contract to enable the Report to be kept up to date , and to help assess how the other Member States are implementing the Directive . |
| 27 | I happened to let slip how much James gave me for it . |
| 28 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 29 | He went on to explain that Blufton was one of the first people to start seeing how much money could be made in the independent TV sector — the little companies that mushroomed all over Soho . |
| 30 | Will my hon. Friend — with his hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State , with whom I have corresponded on the matter — undertake to consider further how a housing association might help with the difficult and complex problem faced by owner-occupiers in Galmington in Taunton , whose homes were built in a non-traditional manner just after the war and who can not now sell those homes ? |