Example sentences of "how they [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Atomism made sense of the language of chemistry in that , if each symbol is understood as representing one atom , one can ask questions about how they are arranged ; if the symbols merely represent numbers , equivalent weights , then everything is much more abstract .
2 What these are and how they are written can tell much or little .
3 Let us now look at each of these kinds of books in turn and see what we can about how they are written .
4 Before preparing any hand-out , however , teachers must ask themselves why they are giving it and how they are to use it .
5 Although central government departments bear a considerable responsibility for this failure , the ability of local authorities to perform this vital function depends in part upon how they are organized .
6 ( It may be helpful to note a parallel dispute in economics about whether firms respond rationally to their market situation or need to be analysed in terms of how they are organized internally . )
7 In part , this failure to interrogate the issue of output is a reflection of Bell 's conception of how societies change and how they are organized .
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9 But there seem to be differences of opinion about how they are perceived , with some getting more political — kinder and more gentle , if you will — while others are as militant as ever . ’
10 I am heartily sick of reading letters in Points of View from folk whingeing on and on about how nasty the English are and how they are colonising Scotland .
11 This project seeks to examine this group of farmers , find out how they are affecting agriculture and what kinds of careers they follow .
12 It depends on how they are viewed .
13 The banners we have are getting tatty as no-one worries very much how they are stored .
14 It is preferable to arrange to visit in about 6 months ' time for a general discussion on how they are getting on .
15 We may think we are monitoring how they are getting on .
16 Leave them for a year , and then go back to find out how they are getting on .
17 6 The group pauses every so often to check how they are getting on .
18 The problem is to discover how these familiar zones are bounded and how they are crossed .
19 To say that the reproduction of the capitalist mode of production requires a number of conditions to be met is not an explanation of how they are met , of what happens if they are not met , of whether they can be met in ‘ functionally equivalent ways ’ , or of why these needs are met .
20 And we see in this little story something far , far greater than the redemption of Elimelech for Ruth and Naomi we see here a picture of your redemption and of my redemption and those three qualifications , how they are met .
21 In this chapter we look at how those goals may be in conflict , and how they are affected by age , culture and a person 's job ; 1 consider how organizations attempt to motivate people by rewarding performance , and thereby rewarding those goals ; finally we look at the outcomes of goal/organization mismatch which lead to dissatisfaction , disillusionment and stress .
22 Family health services authorities and their professional advisers are charged with the challenging task of ‘ improving the quality and cost effectiveness of prescribing , ’ but any consideration of prescribing costs requires an understanding of how they are affected by factors outside the family health services authority 's control .
23 As some parties will only perceive how they are affected as the change unfolds , successful change needs ongoing management until a point is reached where stability is reattained .
24 The models describe the way people learn by experience in terms of how they are affected by the sequence of sums of money received as rewards for correct decisions or lost as penalty for errors .
25 The controversy centres on the assumptions made about two of the terms , V and Q : whether and how they are affected by changes in the money supply ( M ) .
26 The interesting questions relate to how they are expressed in different species .
27 The point made here and in Heyer , Roberts and Williams ( 1981 ) is that these conflicts of interest and how they are expressed in governments ( and outside ) have to be recognised .
28 This is how they are employed to explain social life .
29 What matters is how they are employed in interaction situations .
30 Estimates of the council 's losses vary between £69m and £406m , depending on how they are assessed and on interest rate movements .
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