Example sentences of "[Wh adv] be [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how are we to cut through the political rhetoric to see what lies behind the disagreement ? |
| 2 | How are you getting to the Galleria ? |
| 3 | Er , how are you fixed for the beginning of next month ? or the week after that ? |
| 4 | Sure , how are you doing with the , the drink . |
| 5 | How are you coping with the BOTTOM TONER exercise ? |
| 6 | How am I doing by the way Jennifer ? |
| 7 | How 're you doing with the , the drink ? |
| 8 | ‘ Ah , but how were we to know about the crash ? |
| 9 | ‘ How is he responding to the antibiotics ? |
| 10 | Where and how is it stored in the brain ? |
| 11 | How is it fixed to the wall ? |
| 12 | How is it accessed during the process of understanding ? |
| 13 | So the first problem facing any study of land use is the paucity of good and compatible data , for as the upper section of Table 8.2 shows , there can be considerable variations between different estimates , although the data do provide broad answers to the main points of interest defined by Peters ( 1970 ) namely : How much land is there ? how is it distributed between the major land uses ? and how have the allocations changed over time ( and space ) ? |
| 14 | But there remained the problem which had been gnawing at his mind for months as he waited for his enemy to come home : how was he to get into the castle itself ? |
| 15 | But how was she to get through the rest of the evening ? |
| 16 | So when are you coming to the van then ? |
| 17 | When are you playing at the Grove ? |
| 18 | Where are we to account for the hints , implicit purposes , assumptions , social attitudes and so on that are effectively communicated by the use of language , not to mention the figures of speech ( e.g. metaphor , irony , rhetorical questions , understatement ) that have preoccupied theorists of rhetoric and literature ? |
| 19 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 20 | Why are they seduced by the marketing of the fast food producers ? |
| 21 | ‘ If we 're both here , why are we bothering with the phone ? ’ |
| 22 | Why are we taken through the process of construction in such detail ? |
| 23 | ‘ Why are you hiding in the cupboard , Finn ? ’ she asked like a mother to an inexplicable child at the end of a hard day . |
| 24 | ‘ Why are you asking about the headsail ? ’ she enquired , steering the conversation on to less painful ground . |
| 25 | ‘ Why are you sleeping on the floor ? ’ he asked seriously . |
| 26 | Why am I coming in the room ? |
| 27 | All right so why am I standing outside the door of the canteen … ? |
| 28 | Now why am I stirring in the age long war between the sexes ? |
| 29 | Where were they positioned on the dock ? |
| 30 | What what kind of food did you get , and where were you living at the time ? |