Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [Wh adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the patients ' spouses or carer had been shown or told how to give the drops . |
| 2 | Those lost for a way to use the unlovely rambutan or wondering how to test a sapodilla for ripeness will find Exotic Fruits especially helpful . |
| 3 | Maybe he was sweating , or nervous , or wondering how to broach the subject . |
| 4 | 20 years ago PEOPLE in Darlington could choose between learning the Language of Love on screen on the ABC or asking When Did You Last See My Mother ? ( ‘ a stimulating and imaginative modern play ’ ) at the Civic . |
| 5 | Or understand how to get one of those hand driers to actually dry between your fingers . |
| 6 | Whether we have in mind the student learning that such and such is the case , or learning how to do such and such , we look to the student to rise above the learning . |
| 7 | Honestly , I do n't think it matters knowing how to program , or knowing how to make the machines actually work . |
| 8 | It blames current top management and the board itself for not understanding how bad the problems are or knowing how to solve them . |
| 9 | Most importantly , partners who do not want to know how technology works or to learn how to use computers must be able to call up all the necessary client and administrative information they require . |
| 10 | The Fascist youth organizations which replaced them never went camping , or learned how to cook , or developed any other outdoor skills . |
| 11 | She thinks a man like me learns his sexuality like someone learns to ride a bicycle or learns how to swim . |
| 12 | You can buy an off-the-peg timber frame house or discover how to design and build your own house of stone . |
| 13 | In general , this type of problem indicates that some modification either to the program itself , or in the notes that communicate how to control it , will be needed . |
| 14 | Its interest , as will already be clear , is that it offers a prospect of closing the gap between fact and value , bypassing the issue of whether or how one can draw prescriptive conclusions from descriptive premisses alone : it affirms the apparently naive claim that to know how to act I have only to be sufficiently aware of myself and my surroundings . |
| 15 | This month I 'm going to give you some common licks that demonstrate how to link up various positions on the fretboard using pentatonic scales . |
| 16 | Supplying the best environment is often less of a problem than deciding how to make effective use of their special qualities within the existing garden . |
| 17 | Insects hiding on the trunks and branches of trees represent an equally rich harvest for those animals that know how to gather them . |
| 18 | ‘ You have to hire people that know how to work the equipment , who know how to repair things . |
| 19 | We also reject the belief that knowing how to use terminology in which to speak of language is undesirable . |
| 20 | Letters do not correspond exactly to sounds , with the consequence that knowing how to pronounce a word does n't necessarily mean you know how to spell it ( and vice versa ) . |
| 21 | I said , ‘ I think you should know how to cook a few things , in case they ask you to feed the children , ’ but she seemed to think that knowing how to make a Marmite sandwich would be enough . |
| 22 | We should also recognize that there is more to producing and understanding meaningful language — to communicating — than knowing how to make or recognize correct sentences . |
| 23 | You could also bring up the point that learning how to study any subject successfully makes you quicker at learning new skills and better able to handle the unfamiliar skills you will have to learn as part of the job . |
| 24 | One attractive aspect of this theory is that it highlights the way in which formal instruction can inhibit learning by not allowing sufficient scope for self-expression and self-development — alienation following submission to being taught rather than learning how to learn . |
| 25 | Some of the more sinister weapons advertised in the catalogue include a hair brush that can be transformed into a knife ; a pen that conceals a dagger ; and manuals that explain how to make bombs out of household items . |
| 26 | Jack Stone seems to be the sort of fish that knows how to cut a net or two . ’ |
| 27 | So , vote Labour , the party that knows how to keep its trousers on . |
| 28 | And the one that knows how to make time fly . |
| 29 | At the 1987 annual ACPO conference , chief officers complained they were still having to deal with this illness and asked why do people still need to die in cells from inhalation of vomit ? |
| 30 | A big grey house with a ‘ Guests ’ sign stood among trees , so I knocked at the door and asked how to find the holy well . |