Example sentences of "[be] how [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly interesting will be how rivalries are both conceived of by fans themselves , and represented in local and national media . |
| 2 | This in fact is how requests are received by Christian Aid . |
| 3 | this is interesting in the fact that this is how colour is ‘ described ’ to a person who has no vision whatever . |
| 4 | The nasal discharge and the discharge from the abscesses is highly infectious and this is how strangles is spread to other horses . |
| 5 | That is how society was controlled in the early Middle Ages . |
| 6 | Unlike most previous field trials where crops have been grown using tissue cultures , this particular crop , of the variety " Desirée " , was grown from tubers , which is how potatoes are normally cultivated . |
| 7 | But we should not accept that this is how things are until we are convinced that there is no other account of knowledge which offers the sceptic less leverage . |
| 8 | The sceptic suggests that the two are only contingently related , i.e. that it is quite possible for there to be the one without the other , and that in fact for all we know this is how things are . |
| 9 | ‘ Yet it is how things are ordered , ’ he said gently . |
| 10 | The book is set in the 1940s and this is how things were then , so to expect a different kind of portrayal would be unreasonable . |
| 11 | This is how history is made , thought Lydia despairingly . |
| 12 | This is how roads are funded and charged for in Britain , while in France and in parts of the USA tolls are charged for motorways . |
| 13 | This is how wars are made : to serve the arms supermarkets . |
| 14 | Yet this is how Tomo was born . |
| 15 | Hirsch 's formulation does not exclude the possibility of understanding literature in aesthetic terms , it merely prohibits us from claiming that this is how literature is , essentially , to be comprehended . |
| 16 | We can give some way to describing these people , this is how adapters are generally seen . |
| 17 | ‘ … soil geography is largely the study of the spatial variation of the interaction of environmental elements ; and this is how soil is made . ’ |
| 18 | Another issue is how decisions are taken as to how the money is distributed . |
| 19 | This is how progress is made . |
| 20 | And that night of course in The Bar we were all saying , oh god when she jumps into the truck , how fabulous was that , it just makes you want to cheer ; and Boy thought again , well that is how life is , that is how I feel , that is how I feel when I 'm leaving the bar with my husband for the night , my husband-to-be , that 's just what I think when I 'm getting into his car , Goodbye Father , Goodbye . |
| 21 | Because that is how People are , From The Book of Nome , Quarries , Chap . |
| 22 | These are a bit like pop-up books with foreground , middle ground and background to give perspective and , in movement , parallax , that is , near things apparently moving past each other in the foreground and middle ground while the background stands still , which is how motion is perceived in the real world seen from , say , a train . |
| 23 | A matrix structure can indicate how relationships may be brought together across functional departments which in practice is how organisations are more likely to operate' |
| 24 | What is most important is how classes are taught and how a school manages its teaching staff , rather than the actual number employed or the number of pupils per class . |
| 25 | " This is how war is begun : such is my advice , " said Count Philip of Flanders in 1174 . |
| 26 | Maybe a more urgent question is how households are reorganising their economic activities as old industrial structures are modified by long-term change . |
| 27 | And that is how children are brought up … . |
| 28 | If that 's how oyster 's flavoured , it 's nearest equivalent is brine . |
| 29 | Semi-autobiographical novels , like Richard Llewellyn 's How Green Was My Valley , an account of life in South Wales mining villages , and Richard Gordon 's humorous Doctor stories about the medical profession , can give unique insights . |
| 30 | ‘ I think that 's how Cosmas was killed : his door was locked but , before he retired , I suspect someone spread a coat of oil between the mattress and the bed support and then inserted a small bag of gunpowder . ’ |