Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] how [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It may be a choice as to whether to do X or not , or as to whether to do X , Y , or Z or as to how or when to do X.
2 One of the main purposes of o of a consortium is actually looking at the health needs erm it 's impressions that I 've I actually got o on a number of occasions that I 've er I think involvement in assessing health needs but I 've actually answered anywhere er , and I 'd very interested as to how or what kind of input erm we will be looking to on that ?
3 It is a relief to know that the police , at least , were sufficiently attuned to the realities of contemporary social research to drop charges even if a nagging doubt remains as to how or by whom they were set on to the investigators .
4 Any appeals or advice to exercise self-determination or prescriptions as to how and when to change the GDR government are not only inappropriate but may raise doubts about the authenticity of the eventual allegedly free choice .
5 The Soviet Foreign Minister left no doubt about his concern that some West German politicians might compromise the right of the GDR to self-determination by ‘ offering prescriptions as to how and when to change the GDR system ’ .
6 So far as the amplification of criminal behaviour is concerned , no explanation is offered as to how and why this process ends .
7 The site inspection sheet , shown above , has provision to insert a reminder as to how and when the contractor was notified .
8 What has changed is that a convention has developed as to how and when this power is exercised and the modern position is thus that the monarch has , except in the most unusual circumstances and even then only doubtfully so , no discretion as to when Parliament shall be called and disbanded .
9 If in doubt as to how and when , check with your accountant or local VAT office .
10 For a moment or two , as he waited in the queue behind a container-truck full of German furniture and a self-drive hire removal van , Lewis returned to speculating as to how and why those bones had got into the animal cemetery .
11 There are only the smallest of delicately dropped clues as to how and why they ended up with the social skills of a herd of rhinos .
12 I am still , however , none the wiser as to how and why my advertising works .
13 Sociologically , politically and educationally speaking , difficult but vital questions arise as to how and why particular images , labels , categories , anxieties , forms of rhetoric and practices come to be mobilized around specific sections of a population .
14 The perception of urban problems changed ; in due time the nature of planning response changed with it , and it is in this context that explanations may be sought as to how and why the tempo and style of the public regulation of the urban environment changed so markedly at this time .
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