Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] be [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The interesting questions relate to how they are expressed in different species .
2 This project will attempt to document how debt crises occurred and how they were handled in specific countries since the early eighties .
3 Greenpeace has little idea of how radioactive the waste was in the four incidents described , or of how it was sealed in protective casing .
4 Now the cartoon Princess stops at the point where she is clad in sexy underwear , instead of stripping down further to the G-string .
5 If the time came they 'd be directing operations from there and they 'd want to know just who they were directing where they were placed in British society — everything .
6 The attitude of most feminists appears to be that , if women have reached higher education , then they are ‘ successful ’ ; the only questions to be asked are why fewer women than men reach higher education in the first place , and why they are concentrated in different subject areas .
7 You do n't have to be a historian to know a pretty flower when you see one , and although this is not intended to be a text book — there is more than enough literature available to fulfil that function — I do suggest that your enjoyment of roses can be enhanced by knowing just a little about the many different kinds , and such matters as why they are cultivated in certain ways , why they are pruned , and so on — and to see a strange word , and know what it means !
8 However it was used in Industrial Furnaces Ltd v Reaves [ 1970 ] RPC 605 .
9 It is likely also that the practice of swallowing a paste made of powdered pearls indulged in by Francis Bacon among others was derived from India , where it was established in Hindu usage .
10 On route from Kilham to Lowthorpe , the heavy stone base of the cross fell off at Ruston Parva and embedded itself in the verge side there , from where it was rescued in recent years and now stands on Ruston Parva village green .
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