Example sentences of "of [Wh adv] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This viewpoint can be tempered by an appreciation of how we talk to … |
| 3 | The paper devotes more attention to establishing basic ideologies than to the problems of how they relate to specific strategies . |
| 4 | There are different versions of how they got to Japan , but eventually they were accepted as useful allies and were sent back to recruit more potential fighters in Rangoon . |
| 5 | This poses the interesting question of how they got to Machynlleth in the first place . |
| 6 | Draw in the events , make a chart of how they build to the climax . |
| 7 | In part the style is an acknowledgement of how she came to the leadership , and in part also a reaction to previous leaders . |
| 8 | J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. , 1972 ) she tells of her first meeting with the composer , of his influence on her technique and interpretation , of how she came to terms with the music , of Plante and other virtuosi , and gives a detailed analysis of various pieces . |
| 9 | We had coffee , talked of the gardens and of plants difficult to grow in chalky soil — but nothing personal was said on either side , nor any thought of how she happened to be with me . |
| 10 | Dave murmurs something along the lines of how she seems to be coping with it very well . |
| 11 | But I must first finish the tale of how I came to be here . |
| 12 | This is an account of how I reacted to that very tall order . |
| 13 | The fascinating details of how it came to be are still waiting to be found . |
| 14 | STRAIGHT OUT OF BROOKLYN Unfortunately more interesting than 19-year-old Matty Rich 's film — a slice-of-Brooklyn melodrama crusted with symbolism and piety — is the story of how it came to be made : ambitious kid from Brooklyn drops out of film school , blags some equipment and funds a film on the back of radio appeals . |
| 15 | Finally , we learn how the telescope has been used to track spacecraft — there is an exciting account of how it came to be the main receiving station for the first moonwalk . |
| 16 | I expect to read a full and objective description of what 's on the site now , together with a documented reconstruction of how it came to be like that . |
| 17 | This is a record of how he adapted to his new life . |
| 18 | It informs us of the ‘ forces ’ which shaped Roth 's tours de force of the Sixties and early Seventies , and it informs us of how he came to be where he is now . |
| 19 | In between times , a whole psychological scenario is elaborated , in which we piece together the flavour of his anxiety about the pay , his disappointment at not getting the information out of the lady , his interpretation of what she is like ( inferred from her appearance , actions , and conversation ) , his assessment of her son , his misunderstanding of the son 's errand , and his recollection of how he came to be involved in the interview . |
| 20 | Now detectives are trying to unravel the mystery of how he came to be found face down in a ditch in a plantation on Scotston Farm , Auchterhouse , nearly eight miles from his home on the Ardler estate in Dundee . |
| 21 | It is not unusual for parents to be unaware of how you come to be there . |
| 22 | And I 'm still waiting for your explanation of how you come to be here . ’ |
| 23 | I mean as long as we 've got something which is in the of where we want to be , we can actually measure how well we 're performing against our own plan , which I think is what you 'd like to be able to do . |
| 24 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 25 | Evaluative , in that comparative aggregated information about pupils ' achievements can be used as an indicator of where there needs to be further effort , resources , changes in the curriculum , etc ; |
| 26 | The question of why there seem to be so many more particles than antiparticles around us is extremely important , and I shall return to it later in the chapter . |
| 27 | you 're most of the time you 're getting it right cos this is just making the right sort of guess and you 're seeing the sort of When it gets to the awkward ones y you 're just sort of Well maybe it 's that , maybe its something else . |
| 28 | Erm there 's a sense in which y'know kind of when I go to concerts erm there 's y'know kind of there 's loads of blokes who take their shirts off and er wrestle around together and build human pyramids and do all that kind of , lots of body contact , lots of grasping one-another and all that kind of thing and yet erm y'know presumably to them , on the assumption that they 're heterosexual , as I assume probably they are , it 's it 's one of these things that erm y'know is kind of again maybe it even occurs at the same time as they 're quite homophobic in some cases . |