Example sentences of "has [be] [verb] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been recognised how difficult it is to attribute accurately the effect of humans on soil erosion ( Stocking 1978b : 130 ) because of the uncontrolled nature of many other crucial variables , such as climatic change . |
| 2 | A major contribution of the discipline has been to emphasise how the identification and designation of a particular phenomenon or pattern of behaviour as a ‘ social problem ’ is not an unambiguous matter , but a process of social definition . |
| 3 | Once it has been demonstrated how the logic behind the traditional fidelity to the interests of the shareholders is flawed in the context of the large public company , we are free to examine exactly the nature of the stake which shareholders and others have in the company . |
| 4 | The High Court in Bristol has been hearing how Mr Hayward became seriously ill in 1989 with a tumour caused by asbestos in his lungs . |
| 5 | The trial of Gary Corbett , who 's accused of murdering a nine month old baby girl has been hearing how she suffered a catalogue of appalling injuries before her death . |
| 6 | An inquest has been hearing how a bomb expert and four other workers were killed as they helped to clear Gulf War debris in the Kuwaiti desert . |
| 7 | An inquest has been hearing how a six-month old baby girl died from a fractured skull after being dropped on her head at playschool . |
| 8 | Worcester Juvenile Court has been hearing how three teenage boys wreaked havoc when they went to play on a building site . |
| 9 | It has been seen how the Thatcher Governments have been busy in turning the taxation of wealth into a voluntary tax . |
| 10 | Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made . |
| 11 | Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job . |
| 12 | His main interest has been to explore how , through their own narrative writing , children 's thoughts are directed towards continuous , critical appraisal of experience , as elements of fantasy and reality are related and the emergent living issues are explored . |
| 13 | Another approach has been to consider how a monster or family of monsters , if they did indeed exist in the loch , might be able to survive in a freshwater environment . |
| 14 | Since early last year , when it became clear that sales and profits were falling , the board has been pondering how ICI should be rationalised . |
| 15 | The author has been describing how Stonehenge might have been built . |
| 16 | The brother of the murdered Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon has been describing how he tried to save his life . |
| 17 | A doctor who 's just returned from helping victims of the civil war in Somalia has been describing how the surgeon next to him was shot in the operating theatre as they were trying to save a patient 's life . |
| 18 | A former SAS soldier who 's climbed the highest mountain in the world without oxygen has been describing how he struggled to breathe . |
| 19 | A factory worker has been describing how he tried in vain to save a colleague who 'd been overcome by toxic fumes . |
| 20 | A young soldier , who almost died after being impaled on a fence post in an accident , has been descibing how he survived . |
| 21 | In a decision this afternoon , Oxford City Council 's Parks Officer , Bob Stag , has been saying how industrial waste , and even Council rubbish , has made the site too dangerous for the fire . |
| 22 | It has been shown how elderly people move closer to those who can help them sustain their independence , rather than aiming to move in with relatives . |
| 23 | It has been shown how the discourse of the Newbolt Report offered to universities a leadership role within an ambitious programme for intervention into popular cultures and literacies . |
| 24 | But perhaps her greatest achievement with the chimps at Gombe has been to show how astonishingly close they are to humanity — and so to narrow the gap between us and the rest of the animal world . |
| 25 | The purpose of this chapter has been to show how carers and the informal care network becomes part of the family network , and possibly even part of the family system with which social workers must work . |
| 26 | Whatever the problems with these rather global and unanalytic formulations , none the less they do encapsulate one indispensable and basic argument of feminism , the argument that women 's experience has been left out : one of the central themes of feminism has been the importance of women 's experience , and one of its central enterprises has been to show how a great deal of male theorising about women has tended to deny , invalidate , or be unable to account for this experience . |
| 27 | At the James Bolger murder trial in Preston the jury has been told how two the two eleven year old defendants tormented an elderly woman shortly before they allegedly abducted James Bolger . |
| 28 | A court has been told how a former player with Swindon Town Football Club tried to blackmail his ex-chairman over tax-free payments to staff . |
| 29 | An inquest has been told how an elderley man died from the treatment he was taking for his athletes foot.John Ellis took a revolutionary new drug for his condition , after years of suffering.But within a couple of months , he died from liver failure.But the makers of the drug say it 's safe for most people , and it wo n't be withdrawn.Chris Moore reports . |
| 30 | Do n't forget that while third party software authors struggle to get to grips with OLE 2 , Microsoft has been demonstrating how prototypes will work using its own applications software . |