Example sentences of "how it [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are unable to alter the echoed design but can see how it interferes with their own . |
| 2 | And you hear it , how it soothes with its gentle patter |
| 3 | Let her play with a sponge and see how it fills with water , which slowly drains away once she lifts it up . |
| 4 | They should be providing governors with regular information about their school , carefully explaining the LMS budget and how it compares with ‘ historic costs ’ , promoting financial understanding , raising awareness and allaying governors ' fears — many still see LMS as a daunting prospect . |
| 5 | Account men make it their business to learn everything they can about the client 's product and how it compares with others on the market , and a strategy is arrived at with the help of the researchers and planners , and sometimes with the creative team on the writing and art side . |
| 6 | ‘ I wonder how it compares with sending people knives ? ’ |
| 7 | However most practitioners of literary stylistics , including Halliday himself on a later occasion ( Halliday 1971 ) , would insist on supplementing the comparative approach just described with some kind of functional analysis — analysis , that is , that asks what the language of a text does , how it contributes to the meaning and effect of the whole . |
| 8 | The new Railtrack authority has responsibility for rail infrastructure but how it interlinks with Eurorail and the private sector is as yet unclear . |
| 9 | Thus it is necessary to examine the cell more closely and to try and understand its internal programme and how it responds to external signals . |
| 10 | I 'll just have to see how it responds to treatment . ’ |
| 11 | The answers should have important implications for understanding how the normal nervous system develops and functions and how it responds to injury and disease . |
| 12 | In contrast to the balanced growth incidence analysis , we now allow k to vary and we are interested in how it responds to changes in the level of debt , with the taxes being adjusted to secure budget balance . |
| 13 | I was very interested to read this quote from David Lock , erm of David Lock associates , and I just wonder how it squares from the fact that er Mr Lock associates submitted an objection to H two on the grounds they wanted a settlement of eighteen hundred dwellings to the North of York . |
| 14 | They should be shown how it may primarily be either an artefact in its own right or a means of conveying information ; how it functions as a tool of thought and as a creator of human relationships ; how it can be stored and readily transmitted across time and distance . |
| 15 | Therefore , if we are to find out what linguistic variation means to in-group members and how it functions in the community , much more prior observation and analysis is needed than would be required for better described varieties . |
| 16 | Thank you , does touch on that issue and refers to the point that I made earlier that that the proposals having been referred to that policy and how it meets with er more work . |
| 17 | ( You might refer to the ways in which industry can be organized over space ; to patterns and forms of uneven development ; to how it changes over time . ) |
| 18 | I mean , you know how it feels at the dentist when he puts an injection into the roof of your mouth ? |
| 19 | Well , then Tony , tell us about how it feels at your end . |
| 20 | In caring for a doll or in constructing conversations between soft toys or puppets , children explore how it feels to be a parent rather than a child , a nurse rather than a patient , a teacher rather than a pupil . |
| 21 | Now we know how it feels to be together fully , how can we be content with anything less ? ’ |
| 22 | Of course this demonstrates another advantage of regression therapy ; by the time the patient starts the treatment itself , he or she has already become used to how it feels to be hypnotized and has confidence in the technique as well as in the therapist concerned . |
| 23 | Think how it feels to be a black child looking at books , advertisements , films , TV , and hardly ever seeing a similar face — the message that comes across is that there is no place for black people in our society . |
| 24 | It 's really hard to explain how it feels to be locked in a cell . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's how it feels to me , too . ’ |
| 26 | Through partial participation in the events and networks of relationships which he observes all around him , he tries to understand how it feels to be a member of the society in question . |
| 27 | Right , she thought , why do n't you see how it feels to be really wet for a change ? |
| 28 | Grabbing Ellie 's wrist in punishing fingers , she spat , ‘ Do you have any idea how it feels to be no one ? ’ |
| 29 | I know how it feels to be on the receiving end of that . |
| 30 | But I certainly know how it feels to be called to a distant office where your bosses have been tracking your movements through your ‘ own ’ computer . |