Example sentences of "[verb] as to [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching the Turks spray it around the park against our implacable foes , the English recently , the mystery deepened as to how we managed to knock in five goals against them at Lansdowne Road . |
| 2 | Does my honourable friend agree with Klaus Stratzenburg who is a supervisor with Black and Decker in Lindburg in Germany who when asked to comment as to why he felt that Black and Decker were closing their plant in Germany to move it to Spennymore in County Durham , said it 's simple industry must be flexible , the social chapter is n't . |
| 3 | The incredible ruined cities , many more of which still remain to be discovered in the jungle areas , are one fascination , if only to speculate as to how they were built in a civilisation which had no beast of burden bigger than a llama , no wheels , and no cutting edge except stone . |
| 4 | But while people in the sample can give the information , the question still has to be answered as to why they should bother . |
| 5 | Various explanations have been offered as to how they function but attachment probably depends on the fact that the structures concerned are covered with tubular tenent hairs , the apices of which are moistened by a glandular secretion ( Fig. 23 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ It will provide a showcase to business people of all the attributes the industry has in Scotland and how they can be used , while getting a real exchange going as to how it should develop in the future . ’ |
| 7 | On stand duty at a recent careers convention , my distant thoughts were interrupted by approach of a young bloke enquiring as to where he could find PCL . |
| 8 | Usually I was challenged as to why I was not reading law , which was always quoted as the ‘ proper ’ subject for a police officer . |
| 9 | A much more positive way forward must be found , one which does justice to the insights of both sides , and which seeks to avoid the criticism which both sides must face as to how it is delivered in the classroom . |
| 10 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 11 | Ken was as unclear about what he wanted to do as to how he was going to fulfil sexual urges which he inwardly knew would never be satisfied . |
| 12 | I still remain a wee bit puzzled as to why we do n't try to recruit more than one member in any one large organisation , eg the exclusion of Scottish Power people simply because we have a [ Stewart ] member already . |
| 13 | The mystery of the Indus Valley Civilization is not so much why it disappeared as to how it began . ’ |
| 14 | A reason cited as to why he was being released was that there are/were potential problems with renewing his work permit . |
| 15 | That is a matter for the Inspector of Taxes or those responsible for the assessment to decide as to how they will deal with those matters . |
| 16 | I have in fact no explanation to offer as to how he came to die , and it may be that no trustworthy explanation will ever be achieved . |
| 17 | John Hampshire and Ken Palmer , umpires on the day , are mystified as to why their official match report has not been made known . |
| 18 | Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it . |
| 19 | We were completely baffled as to why there should be these differences , and in particular why the preferred directions of the on-type directionally selective ganglion cells should fall into three groups . |
| 20 | and that maybe something your Lordship may wish to consider , I 'm a little bit baffled as to why my learned friend has gone for cases on interim measures , we 're not seeking interim relief , we have n't sorted interim injunction , erm to suspend the validity of any particular measure that was the basis of all of his case |
| 21 | Carol and Ron encouraged the duo — even if they were baffled as to where their talent had come from . |
| 22 | Depending on your interpretation he was either cleverly biding his time , or drifting , baffled as to how he could top his past work . |
| 23 | People who were questioned as to why they listened to him during the war very often said they found him ‘ good for a laugh ’ . |
| 24 | When pressed as to why he thought this was , he got on to what I later found was a cause he would die for . |
| 25 | If we look back to the middle years of the nineteenth century and to the debates about the extension of the franchise to the working class then hopes were expressed as to how voters should behave at the same time as there was anxiety and fear as to how they would actually behave . |
| 26 | The course of the boundary should be examined critically and questions asked as to why it follows the features it does , what sort of land is enclosed , and why the land unit is the shape it is . |
| 27 | The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 28 | No satisfactory explanation can be given as to why our ELISA results differ from Saxon et al . |
| 29 | Vagueness was resorted to by the judge in Jenkins v Reid in order to explain why a reformulation of a clause was unacceptable and in Gledhow Autoparts Ltd v Delaney [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 1366 Dankwerts LJ criticised the phrase " districts in which the traveller had operated " as being too vague especially as instructions given as to where he should work were purely oral . |
| 30 | No indication was given as to how they might have died . |