Example sentences of "how some [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | How some teams managed to climb Mount Chirripo amazed even Gerard Fusil . |
| 2 | It is stressed repeatedly how some sportsmen had the potential or the promise yet lacked the application to develop it . |
| 3 | How some pigments come off more easily than others ( reds and blacks always seem more soluble when I 'm cleaning with ammonia ) . |
| 4 | Tomorrow in One Day at a Time we see how some families have coped with bringing up children who 've suffered head injuries . |
| 5 | Strange how some things do n't change . |
| 6 | He does not recognize that it is possible to alternate between the two according to the stage of industry development , and Gilbert and Strebel ( 1988 ) illustrate how some companies do outpace others in the industry on both cost and quality . |
| 7 | Others may be in positions of trust not directly derived from full-time occupation , such as scout masters — SCOUT LEADER 'S CAMPING SHAME ( Star ) — as well as those in less formal and less-easily recognisable roles ; the headline Sex shame of ‘ uncle' ( Daily Mirror ) and text ( ‘ a mild-mannered clerk known by schoolboy train fans as Uncle Roland … took boys in the Rail Riders ’ Club on trips in Britain and Europe ’ ) shows how some offenders had eased into positions of trust with youngsters . |
| 8 | Fielding notes how some constables subsume these negotiating skills under the category of ‘ talk ’ , which gives meaning to their complaint that many younger policemen seem no longer to know how to talk to members of the public ( 1988b : 60 ; also see Holdaway 1983 : 90 ; Southgate 1982 : 11–12 ) . |
| 9 | With evidence drawn from his field-work in Great Britain , Fielding showed how some constables place primacy upon providing counselling assistance , displaying forbearance in their dealings with the public , and in possessing the communication skills to process the encounter with the public smoothly and to enlist the support of members of the public . |
| 10 | It 's astonishing how some formalities have stayed on , even through the mean and hungry 1980s , for no apparent reason than that they were always done , while in other areas of activity important people are treated with the utmost disdain — or worse , with complete new-fangled insincerity . |
| 11 | The chant was so beautiful Athelstan stopped , closing his eyes to listen , until a rough-mouthed carter flicked his whip , bellowing how some men had to work and could n't laze around like stupid priests . |
| 12 | The court has heard how some couples lost their life savings after investing with a financial advisory service run by Christopher How . |
| 13 | From depth interviews with fifty long-established heterosexual and some gay and lesbian couples , the project will focus not upon why couples break up but upon how some couples manage to stay together . |
| 14 | The readings are not comprehensive , but illustrate how some points discussed earlier in the book may be studied . |
| 15 | ( We saw in Chapter One how some thinkers have advocated utilitarianism in a consciously attitudinist spirit . ) |
| 16 | Thus we have seen that there is considerable evidence of a living and functioning network of kin ( some sociologists write of a ‘ modified extended family ’ ) in modern industrial society and how some historians have shown how many similarities exist between the family in pre-industrial Europe and the family of our own times . |