Example sentences of "[vb pp] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seiji Ozawa , a Karajan pupil , has reported how , as a teacher , Karajan would identify a point at issue but never proffer a solution , conforming to another fine adage of teaching : ‘ You may take the pupil to the window but on no account should you attempt to describe the view . ’ |
| 2 | We have previously reported how mucosal proliferation may be influenced by proximity to a tumour . |
| 3 | It has not disclosed how much it thought these brands were worth . |
| 4 | Neither side has disclosed how much Gibson paid , but United confirms that it invited no other bids . |
| 5 | Nor would he go into detail about the method of murder although detectives had earlier disclosed how Walker and Collier , both HIV-positive , were killed . |
| 6 | Last week The Northern Echo disclosed how Durham county councillors had voted to repossess the Duke Street premises in Darlington occupied by the Durlia Club . |
| 7 | Cognitive theorists have stressed how schemata permit the rapid processing of information , just as Jodelet ( 1984 ) says that social representations do . |
| 8 | Emily Grundy ( 1986 ) has rightly stressed how little is known about the epidemiology and aetiology , let alone prevention and treatment , of some of the major disorders affecting the very old , such as dementia . |
| 9 | Professor Perkin has stressed how favourable Britain 's situation was . |
| 10 | ‘ It need hardly be stressed how undesirable a situation is , whereby a prisoner can hang himself and remain suspended for several hours within a cell , unbeknown to either his cellmate or the supervising authority , ’ said the sheriff . |
| 11 | My frustration came to a head when I read an advert in a well known weekly which was for an attractive 1948 Series One the price of which has VAT added How can this be ? |
| 12 | 11 If 4 extra sweets are added how many are in the box now ? |
| 13 | The local people had stoned her for wearing trousers in the street and Fernando had ruefully added how things had changed since then — now anything went in Majorca . |
| 14 | He had forgotten how things smelled . |
| 15 | Class divisions have reappeared : private entrepreneurs grumble that ungrateful workers have forgotten how bad things were a year ago . |
| 16 | Now I am never ashamed of anything , for I consider shame to be a bourgeois and petty emotion , but this was the one occasion when I felt ashamed of myself , and I have never forgotten how sad it made me to have denied my principles for the sake of friendship and love — or what I imagined to be love . |
| 17 | The windows had not been opened for years and had forgotten how it went . |
| 18 | You know , Wilson , you know , you can not have forgotten how it is . |
| 19 | She said : ‘ He has forgotten how to hunt . |
| 20 | The crux came when she became doubly incontinent and her mind had got to the point where she had forgotten how her body functioned . |
| 21 | I had forgotten how well you know the Prince of Wales ! ’ |
| 22 | She had forgotten how nice it was , after so long an interval . |
| 23 | Everyone involved has to realize that the tasks are not relearned in an automatic sequence : the fact that the patient may be able to put on his sweater one day does not necessarily mean that he is immediately able to progress to putting on his trousers — indeed , he may have forgotten how to cope with the sweater the following day . |
| 24 | Through the middle-of-the-night streets , seem to have forgotten how to drive , is this the gear lever ? |
| 25 | And most of us have forgotten how to listen to those everyday sounds which form part of our lives . |
| 26 | Even music is so often used as a ‘ background noise ’ in shops and restaurants that it sometimes seems that we have forgotten how to listen to it . |
| 27 | He had forgotten how sensitive she was . |
| 28 | The street seemed to be full of perfume now , wafting around her in the biting wind — the perfume that was the most evocative memory she had of her mother , a haunting perfume , light and teasing and sweet , a perfume that smelled a little like a summer garden at dusk , a perfume , the memory of which had possessed the power to bring tears to her eyes long , long after she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother 's face . |
| 29 | He 'd been driving for days , he 'd forgotten how many , and he was tired of the white lines painted down the middle of the highway , he was tired to the centre of his bones . |
| 30 | Living in Denver , Colorado , a very arid region , we had forgotten how penetrating the cold can be when accompanied by humidity . |