Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh adv] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view led to the first restrictions on private members ' capacity to interrupt or hold up business whenever they liked — or whenever they could get the House to listen to them , for there was always considerable self-discipline . |
| 2 | We might , however , usefully make " trust " the focal point of a drama in which , for example we examined when it is appropriate to trust someone , or how we might learn to trust someone in difficult circumstances , or how we can gain someone 's trust — but this is very different from the worryingly naive claims sometimes made for " trust games " . |
| 3 | We might , however , usefully make " trust " the focal point of a drama in which , for example we examined when it is appropriate to trust someone , or how we might learn to trust someone in difficult circumstances , or how we can gain someone 's trust — but this is very different from the worryingly naive claims sometimes made for " trust games " . |
| 4 | Its interest , as will already be clear , is that it offers a prospect of closing the gap between fact and value , bypassing the issue of whether or how one can draw prescriptive conclusions from descriptive premisses alone : it affirms the apparently naive claim that to know how to act I have only to be sufficiently aware of myself and my surroundings . |
| 5 | Despite the findings of the Dragon Project and other workers over the years , it is still too early to be at all dogmatic as to the nature of the energies at ancient sites or how they might operate . |
| 6 | Just waiting for the flash line to ring , not even knowing whether the kidnappers would have heard the radio show at all , or how they would react if they had , made Sam nauseous from stress . |
| 7 | The presumption was that whatever people said about their tastes , feelings , beliefs , attitudes or opinions was a reliable guide to how they would behave or how they would act . |
| 8 | Altering the structure does not necessarily tackle practices and the more fundamental issues of how the media should treat and explain the complexity of contemporary social problems or how they should act in the face of the increasing ability of governments and other authorities to control and manipulate information . |
| 9 | The American armed services were considering how they might react to an appeal for assistance from an anti-communist government in Tehran , or how they should respond to a coup by elements which had the backing of Moscow . |
| 10 | We run the risk of damaging our own campaigns by not fully understanding the roles staff can play , or how they can damage the process if they do not understand their role . |
| 11 | ‘ We see companies rethinking how they can manage product design , how they can help people communicate between different groups in a company , how they can eliminate printed information and let people see information electronically and browse it exactly the way they want , or how they can keep track of their customers in a better way . ’ |
| 12 | They speak of longing to be beautiful or of restrictions on what they can wear or how they can look , and of media images of young women and how this affects them . |
| 13 | What 's the use , for instance , of alarming sixty-odd people with a preview of the Aberfan disaster without telling them where it is , when it is going to happen , or how they can help to stop it happening ? |
| 14 | Worry about how things are going or how they will end is detumescent . |
| 15 | While ‘ real consciousness ’ might be what people in a given group actually think , it does not necessarily correspond to what they will do or how they will respond to changes either in their situation or in the information they have . |
| 16 | Yeah erm so er yeah right that 's er because I mean what 's nice to see in these things is if you 're able to tell some sort of coherent little story from er y'know kind of these er people 's ideas , themes , speculations , evidence from previous studies and all that kind of thing and this is this is the data that we 've got that tells us something about those and says how misconceived they all are or how it may confirm them or whatever and then y'know a couple of bits sort of so it 's like a nice narrative but sort of fairly y'know sort of continuous argument going through which is nice to see and so er yeah . |
| 17 | ‘ Or how it will end , ’ said Bicker , watching Riven as , he stared out at the darkness beyond the window . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sorry about Billy , but I do n't see what it has to do with me or how I can help you . |
| 19 | Nobody talked about it in the classes , only the birth and the pregnancy , not about the baby afterwards , or how you will feel . |
| 20 | You may have worries about whether the patient can return to work , or how you can plan future holidays for yourself or the family . |
| 21 | She just did n't know how to approach him or how he would treat her . |
| 22 | We do n't know how Beethoven conducted his music or how he would have conducted if he had been able to hear everything that was going on , but we know from Brahms 's letters that he allowed himself sometimes great flexibility . |
| 23 | He told Wordsworth how he would lie on the leads , or flat roof , of Christ 's Hospital , and gaze into the sky because that was the only face of nature London could not obscure , or how he would close his eyes and ‘ by internal light ’ see before him the trees and meadows of Ottery and the river itself . |
| 24 | Many organisations fail to take account of this and the importance of personal contact becomes lost in techno-culture or the ‘ memo culture ’ of the organisation , while the individual has no sense of where he fits in or how he can contribute . |
| 25 | What she did n't know was quite what life on a mission station would be like or how she would adjust to it , though it does n't appear to have given her any sleepless nights . |
| 26 | Erm , we do know quite a lot about erm , why it is that when you diet you start to think about food all the time , and why it is that certain things happen , and I think that there 's more and more information and knowledge being gathered and yes , the na , the desire to change has to come from the individual but perhaps , having clinics available where people can go when they 're ready to change or where they can get help . |
| 27 | I mean it 's the difference between taking effective action where one can and being able to decide where one can take or where one can encourage children to take effective action . |
| 28 | do n't say that a level crossing or where the road narrows , on approached any type of pedestrian crossing or where it would involve driving over an area marked with diagonal stripes to or che chevrons , do not overtake when you do so would force another vehicle to swerve or slow down , if in doubt do not overtake so where 'd you not overtake ? |
| 29 | hump back bridge or the brow of the hill , or where you might come into conflict with the car , with other road users for example at |
| 30 | Anyone who comes into close contact with Saddam is very carefully vetted , of course , and they never know beforehand when or where he will turn up . |