Example sentences of "how it [modal v] be [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1980s the government-funded Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) sponsored a scheme whereby the employer paid a percentage of the salary and costs of a partially disabled person 's employment in proportion to the individual 's assessed percentage contribution to the job in terms of how it would be performed by an average non-disabled person ; MSC paid the balance . |
| 2 | In this case , instead of accepting that comprehensible input is indeed validly conceived as ‘ The ‘ Fundamental Pedagogical Principle ’ ’ and then looking at how it might be achieved by interaction , one might more profitably ask whether these strategies of interaction on the part of the learner do not suggest that the notion of comprehensible input is inadequate for explaining how language is learned , and therefore is not so very fundamental after all . |
| 3 | The dictionary shows how efficiency in the formulation of meaning can be achieved by synthesis , the grammar shows how it can be achieved by analysis . |
| 4 | We have a confused and overlapping structure er er , the honourable member might be interested in just how confused it is er and how it can be simplified by er going along with the proposals we 're putting forward on this side of the er er the house because there 's so many overlapping authorities it 's just not clear who 's actually responsible for enforcement and compliance . |
| 5 | I wish they would adopt the positive principle of looking at something and seeing the good in it — seeing how it can be improved by building up the positive aspects . |
| 6 | 1 On your own read the poem and think about how it should be read by the group . |