Example sentences of "it [verb] how [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Northern Echo prompted a public outcry last year when it revealed how a night in the cells at Bishop Auckland police station cost £200 dearer than a room at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 2 | Sometimes this is no more than a description of what has to be done but sometimes it incorporates how the operator does it or should do it . |
| 3 | If this story is regarded as a plausible one , it illustrates how a theory can always be protected from falsification by deflecting the falsification to some other part of the complex web of assumptions . |
| 4 | It is worth noting the language in the Federation rebuttal of the PSI report , for it illustrates how the culture is programmed to sneer at the ‘ graphic literary phrase ’ and dismiss the use of ‘ anecdotal material ’ as unscientific : while participant observation is considered to be a world away from ‘ research based on safe academic principles ’ ( my emphasis ) . |
| 5 | He does n't think it 's fair but it depends how the health authority spends its budget . |
| 6 | It depends how the mood grabs me . ’ |
| 7 | Nor does it show how the international sphere affects the long cycle ; no consideration is given to how the international structure of industry affects innovation and the propagation of long waves or how innovation affects industry 's internationalization . |
| 8 | It told how an empire of six hundred miles wide and nearly three thousand miles long , so big the Incas called it Tahuantinsuyo , the Four Quarters of the Earth , had been engaged in a fratricidal war of succession when its miserable future was planned by two uneducated adventurers , Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro , and by a priest , Father Hernando de Luque . |
| 9 | In fact , the account is a lay , sociological' one : it describes how a system works and all those psychological states , which might be indicative of a prejudiced mentality , have no place in this system . |
| 10 | The report makes for fairly depressing reading , as it describes how the capital fares worse than the rest of the country in many areas of service . |
| 11 | And it describes how the requirements of I S O Nine Thousand and One are satisfied within the group . |
| 12 | And now we 're sort of letting it run how a business would . |
| 13 | And it shows how a new and larger loan made to clear past debts or consolidate several separate debts into one can do the same . |
| 14 | It shows how a complex process can be distilled into a simple framework , generating documentation that can be easily audited . |
| 15 | It shows how the Word could give birth to commentators ’ words , as could the castrated Origen , but gives no acceptable explanation of how it could produce Origen . |
| 16 | It shows how the BBC 's income from TV licence charges is spent — that is , what proportion of the whole ( 100% ) goes to the different branches of the company . |
| 17 | It comes from RHM Research and it shows how the company rescued valuable 16th and 17th century books that had been waterlogged in a flood at Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire . |
| 18 | it shows how the centrefold effect can be used to embrace wide landscapes ; how a minimum of colour can gain maximum effect , and how a few lines of scribble can hold a lot of memory . |
| 19 | It shows how the present position compares with the depths of the last recession in 1982 when 23 per cent of such companies were at risk . |
| 20 | It shows how the Contras , aided by US government agents , financed their war against Nicaragua not only with official financial help from Capitol Hill but by trafficking narcotics through the US as well . |
| 21 | Although this balance is not entirely based on direct measurements , it shows how the observed interactions between sulphate reducing bacteria and methanogenic bacteria in vivo can be understood as competition for the mutual substrate hydrogen . |
| 22 | ‘ It shows how the estate action programme is combining with other initiatives to bring comprehensive improvements to run-down estates . ’ |
| 23 | This is instructive because it shows how an explanation in terms of secondary causes is not perceived to exclude a customary reference to the will of a person . |
| 24 | Reporting between 1976 and 1979 it showed how the share of the before-tax distribution of wealth of the top ten per cent had fallen from nearly 30 per cent in 1959 to 26.6 per cent in 1974–5 . |
| 25 | But Dilys Powell could reasonably complain of Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) that there was ‘ hardly any suspense , hardly any of the building up to a climax which makes the dullest American film tolerable ’ , and enthuse about Carol Reed 's A Girl Must Live ( 1939 ) , saying it showed how the British could make ‘ a comedy which has the speed and glitter and impudence of the best American comedies . ’ |
| 26 | Des Shepherd , of Sunrise , launched in November 1989 , said : ‘ It showed how the needs of an affluent and up-and-coming Asian community had been ignored by mainstream broadcasters . ’ |
| 27 | Synchronic study , on the other hand , considers how a language functions as a system at a given moment in time , analyzing the simultaneous relationships between its constituent parts ; it examines how a language works , not how it develops . |
| 28 | In particular , it examined how the current financial arrangements worked , and concluded that these had not been especially favourable to the Scottish licence feepayer . |
| 29 | The test of a skill description is : does it indicate how an individual goes about a task , does it allow for individual differences such as those between a highly skilled operator and a mediocre one ? |
| 30 | And it tells how a remarkable boy is going to come and save the world . |