Example sentences of "[conj] to how [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Assertiveness training is about extending and being flexible in our communication style so that we have more choices as to how we respond in different situations .
2 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 .
3 In terms of funding , there 's going to have to be some political decision as to how we allocate those resources .
4 The contractors representatives will be driven around the whole route , but with no clues as to how we think the job should be done .
5 We also have more freedom as to how we behave within our ascribed or achieved class .
6 1p. 61 ) That is , they tend to move between a claim as to how we do in fact conceive of causation and a recommendation as to how we ought to conceive of it .
7 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 ) .
8 Certainly some of their art , such as cave paintings , survives and may provide a clue as to how they thought .
9 Up to this point we had kept up with the other parties , but while they had tackled the step easily , we were left puzzled as to how they had done it .
10 With open questions the researcher leaves it to the respondents as to how they word their answers .
11 We are , regrettably , completely in the dark as to how they functioned in relation to each other .
12 ( ii ) It must be a matter for policy and operational decision by the police as to how they reconcile and balance the need on the one hand to bring an individual offender swiftly to book and deter crime , and on the other , the desirability of apprehending a larger number of offenders and recovering property ( post , p. 238A–B ) .
13 Clearly , it must be a matter for policy and operational decision by the police as to how they reconcile and balance the need on the one hand to bring an individual offender swiftly to book and deter crime , and on the other , the desirability of apprehending a larger number of offenders and recovering property .
14 I wonder given Selby 's recent experience with their local plan , whether they can enlighten us as to how they have reached a view that the structure plan provision in right in environmental terms for their district .
15 Work work with your pair , erm , for now , and overnight , what we 'd like you do is , obviously decide for yourself your strategy , but also if you can brief your other half , as to how they need to play that role , to get you the best opportunity of practising the skills .
16 Most people have considerable leeway as to how they spend their money over and above basic subsistence requirements .
17 But I find Ruether to be fully justified : one must , as a theologian , make some judgement as to what the scriptures are about , and Ruether is explicit as to how she reads .
18 Each woman has to make a choice as to how she expresses the ageing process .
19 In her desperate condition , stuck on some rock of a planet without a trace of memory as to how she had got there , the drink felt pretty much like her only reason for living .
20 She was about to enquire as to how she knew , but Madame was already chasing them out good humouredly .
21 And as to how she behaved to your mother you 'd never believe it — cigarettes , mess , gin in the teacups , and never a please or thank-you .
22 Anyway , it 's a hint as to how I got here , if nothing else . ’
23 Readers of these pages may feel curious as to how I combined my religious convictions and duties with those of the Director of Public Relations .
24 ‘ And as to how I found you — when you did n't answer the phone I went round to the flat .
25 He told chairman Michael Croucher he had found the nearby new frame while he was walking along The Hollow ( RUPP 45 ) at Bramshott and was puzzled as to how it came to be lost .
26 The mystery of the Indus Valley Civilization is not so much why it disappeared as to how it began . ’
27 Hence it is important for the legislation to spell out the situations and conduct that will be presumed to be anticompetitive , and to provide for the competition policy institution to publish guidelines as to how it proposes to apply the legislation .
28 At this stage perhaps I can emphasize Jan this is such a flexible concept that er we are anxious not to lay down any rigid rules as to how it works because if some things do n't work very well , they can be altered and if some things do prove to work well like the event we had at Felixstowe we can build on that success so quite consciously we 're not laying down any rigid rules as to how things go and we will look to review how officers we , we erm advise you as members in the light of practical experience .
29 Whilst recalling his early hardships Chaplin also provided a clue as to how he had overcome them for he spoke of how he had ‘ slaved like a nigger to master the difficult steps that formed the routine of the eight Lancashire lads ’ .
30 ‘ All the evidence is there , is n't it ? ’ he remarked , and enlightened her as to how he had reached his conclusions .
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