Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We understand that a code must be invoked in order to handle the grammatical aspect of what one person says , but the question of how we extract information from running speech remains the subject of much debate ( Marslen-Wilson and Welsh , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | In one way these three decades of horror provide a parable of how we try to explain evil in humanity . |
| 3 | Consider some simple examples from the University Farm at Bristol of how we fed our cows before and after the imposition of quotas . |
| 4 | So we now have two possible answers to the problem of how we recognize a stretch of language as unified and meaningful . |
| 5 | The only measure that we can take to help ourselves is to become more aware of how we go about simple , mundane actions . |
| 6 | The words we use are only a part of how we communicate . |
| 7 | When linguists talk of the goal of linguistic theory as being the construction of an account of a sound-meaning correspondence for the infinite set of sentences in any language , one might perhaps infer that such a grand theory would eo ipso give an account of at least the essentials of how we communicate using language . |
| 8 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
| 9 | This is true right down to the detail of how we use electronic mail , for example , in which , until we discover or are shown otherwise , we start from the assumption that this is a cheaper and more rapid method of writing the sort of letters we always wrote , and that those letters should have the same status , and be stored and referred to in the same way , as the written or typed ( and duplicated ) paper missive . |
| 10 | The point here , though , is that the existence of a great range of such implications , some of which have only the most tenuous relationship to the semantic content of what is said , emphasizes the need for a theory or theories that will complement semantics in order to give a relatively full account of how we use language to communicate . |
| 11 | We can get an idea of how we hear sounds by considering what happens when one person speaks to another . |
| 12 | What we need is a perspicuous representation of our use of the word ‘ remember ’ , and of how we come to use words like ‘ yesterday ’ . |
| 13 | Now , balance sheet with the lower debt and promising cash flow , of course , impacts on financial ratios and I think that this is the best measure of how we come through nineteen ninety one rather than the profits . |
| 14 | They may ( or may not ) have been created that way , but , once they have been determined , we store our beliefs more efficiently in the form of symbols ( shorthand words and phrases which reflect a complete attitude to and assessment of a person or situation — e.g. ‘ She is a poor performer ’ ) and scripts ( models of how we act once certain situations are recognized ) . |
| 15 | We are not really aware of how we draw on visual clues in our interpretation of what we hear . |
| 16 | It 's in the case of how we police students that the question about where we draw the line and how far we become engaged are most problematic , I think , and it 's in that case really that I 'm proposing this distinction . |
| 17 | Christ does care about the details of how we conduct ourselves in all these situations , because the standards we have at work either honour him or dishonour him . |
| 18 | All I 'm trying to tell you is how my account of how we tell the truth explains this fact , which apparently simpler accounts of how we tell the truth do n't do . |
| 19 | All I 'm trying to tell you is how my account of how we tell the truth explains this fact , which apparently simpler accounts of how we tell the truth do n't do . |
| 20 | There are a couple of examples of how we make up erm the earnings . |
| 21 | cos as far as annual reports are concerned you just want a statement from Hugh , and a rough idea of how we 've performed financially . |
| 22 | The study of how we receive and deal with information and how information is actually communicated are now fields of academic study . |
| 23 | Some of us remember the times of fixed exchange rates under the Bretton Woods system when we used to hear in the House details of public expenditure cuts , of how we had to let go a great deal of our reserves , and of high interest rates — all at once . |
| 24 | We had gone prepared for any questions he might ask , together with all the official documents regarding planning permission etc. and a collection of excellent photographic evidence of how we had set up the museum regarding exhibits etc. , taken by our good friend Russell Mulford . |
| 25 | ( The story of how we acquired 800 uniform boxes is too long and exhausting for this report , nut Bill Axford is the hero of that one … ) . |
| 26 | It is as though , in our theory of how we came to exist , we are allowed to postulate a certain ration of luck . |
| 27 | It is useful to think of how we cope with the stresses of life as a set of scales ( see Figure 4.5 ) . |
| 28 | ( If you 're interested in following up the question of how we know what 's going on in our own minds you might have a look at Duncan : I Know What I Know — or Do I ? — Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society , Spring 1971 , or just possibly my contribution to the symposium on recursion in the current Analysis , though this is a little technical . ) |
| 29 | erm I I think that being able to acknowledge for themselves — the adults — for them to be able to acknowledge to themselves that this is a very stressful time , that erm that children may be needing that extra bit of sensitivity erm in terms of how we respond to their behaviour , which may be very erm connected with the general level excitement and and stress that I think we as adults are feeling , and certainly that are being picked up from the media . |
| 30 | Many artists , scientists and philosophers engaged the question of whether linear ( or any other ) perspective provides the true account of how we perceive . |