Example sentences of "[verb] that this [is] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | How does he know that this is how things must be ? |
| 2 | Summary We strive to provide a continuing care unit for the elderly mentally infirm of the Hawick/Jedburgh/Kelso area , and I hope that this is how our professional colleagues see us . |
| 3 | Above all , does not the cross show that this is how God always acts in and towards the world , eternally vulnerable to the worst of pain and suffering which it manifests ? |
| 4 | Yet we do have rough-and-ready scales of value ; certain impulses regularly win out over others and , if the toss is there to be argued over , we will claim that this is how it ought to be . |
| 5 | Another approach would be to say that it is I , not some part of me called ‘ reason ’ , which sees that this is how the system of my impulses should be organized . |
| 6 | Users often report experiencing the sort of twisted non-Euclidian dimensions associated with the Old Ones , so it 's reasonable to assume that this is how Mait made contact with them , or with whatever race memory remains of them , which amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 7 | He thought : I believe that this is how I shall remember her when it is over , as over it will surely be sooner or later . |
| 8 | The carving is quite deep , and the frontality is surely because the sculptor , used to working figures in the round , felt that this is how a carved figure should look . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Often I think that this is how we shall witness the end of the world . |
| 11 | Whilst their presence does not prove that this is how the light/dark cycle normally adjusts the clock , it does seem to make it a very reasonable working hypothesis . |
| 12 | Anyone who forgets that this is how men and women thought of the goods of life in those days will never be competent to judge the small but genuine improvement which the great capitalist expansion brought to a substantial part of the working classes in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | By the time we reach the end of the scene we see that this is how it is , for the fulsome praisers of their father put aside their hypocrisy and , left alone with each other , and with us , reveal their true nature , moving down from inflated verse to coldly pragmatic prose : They are not only cold and censorious — ‘ unruly waywardness … infirm and choleric years … unconstant starts ’ — but end by planning some form of counteraction : ‘ We shall further think on it ’ — ‘ We must do something , and i ’ th' heat' ( 307f . ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |