Example sentences of "[prep] how the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He ended by warning that if there was no indication of how the world was going to handle the issue of transfer of technology and financial resources needed by the developing countries , there would be no strengthening of the convention and even the ones already in might opt out . |
| 32 | One measure of how the dangers of plutonium are assessed is the Japanese plan to build an £88 million coastguard vessel to escort shipments of plutonium oxide from the Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria for use in its prototype fast reactor at Monju . |
| 33 | ARM British and French congratulations to Mr Helmut Kohl for his allies ' victory in the East German election are not the best gauge of how the West German chancellor is viewed in London and Paris . |
| 34 | It is programmed with a flight plan telling it how to get from a nearby ‘ way-point ’ to its target , and with a set of pictures of how the terrain it will pass over should look to its radar altimeter . |
| 35 | The second sense emerges as we follow his explanation of how the civil state would come into being out of a state of nature , by the making of contracts . |
| 36 | Berkeley offers Newton 's achievements in illustration of how the hidden rules , or ‘ laws of nature ’ , by which God excites ideas in us can be discerned and systematized . |
| 37 | ‘ I suppose she ca n't help it , ’ Alan , Jane 's neighbour , philosophised , ‘ it 's all a matter of how the genes , or the DNA or whatever it is , falls . |
| 38 | Nor was there any instance , as far as I could see , of the faithful lover dying before his long wait was rewarded ; or thought of how the heroine might have felt in such a case , with brothers and sisters flown the nest , father and mother dead , hero dead , the house empty , and the mind , so long attuned and subjected to the needs of other minds , no longer able to recognize and adapt to its own needs . |
| 39 | Evidence of how the properties of these metals were manipulated can indicate the technical level of a society at any given time . |
| 40 | They tell of how the Israelites were caught between the Reed Sea and the pursuing Egyptian army , and how God drove the Egyptians into the sea to drown , while leading his people across to safety . |
| 41 | The book of Leviticus , which follows next , is chiefly concerned with details of how the relationship between God and the people can be repaired and kept in good order . |
| 42 | Historians have varied in their interpretations of how the Labour Party approached these problems and the effectiveness of its responses . |
| 43 | The Jewish commentaries on the story tell of how the two of them worked as a team , educating the people around them , teaching them that they should not worship idols , and that there is only one God . |
| 44 | The discussion will fall into two parts : an examination , first , of the sort of information that can be gleaned from a study of individual coins , and , second , of how the study of groups of coins can throw light on contemporary propaganda . |
| 45 | The examination of all the images produced during a particular period or of a selection of images over a longer period will often provide a good idea of how the relevant state or regime wished to represent itself . |
| 46 | Lola gets up to no good with her handsome boyfriend , but it 's a basic boy meets girl story of how the pair defiantly take on the world . |
| 47 | If she had known of how the Greeks slaughtered the bearers of bad tidings she might have taken longer to decide it was her duty , but , as it was , she saw no need to fear for herself , only for the person to whom she would relate the devastating news . |
| 48 | There remains the problem of how DNA ever gets round to doing anything ; that is , of how the information carried in the base sequence is made use of . |
| 49 | Despite this difficulty , any final account of how the brain works will have to be interpretable in terms of what its constituent nerve cells do . |
| 50 | Unlike Mr Anderson last week , furthermore , he had some elementary knowledge of how the controls worked , having sat beside his pilot . |
| 51 | Lane , by way of having a metaphorical dig at the greens , would later speak of how the 20-footer he needed for the outright lead had looked ‘ good in the air . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ I 'm proud that this will be done , not only in Father 's memory but to remind us of how the stories came to be . ’ |
| 53 | Prof Robert Huber , winner of the 1988 Nobel prize for chemistry , told the meeting that experimental drugs had arisen from new understanding of how the leech prevents its meal from coagulating with a substance called hirudin . |
| 54 | They shuffle out to a soft rhythmic crunching underfoot , reminiscent of how the boots of Napoleon 's legions must have sounded trudging back through the Russian snows . |
| 55 | A study of how the various crofting communities handled these pressures , outside the law and largely by ignoring it , might be instructive in the field of human relationships to which I have referred , but it would be difficult now to carry it out because that period in crofting has passed into history . |
| 56 | Based on their extensive studies on behalf of the National Association of Social Workers into differential use of social welfare personnel , Barker and Briggs ( 1968 ) developed a fairly sophisticated conception of how the social service team would work , and they offered it as an alternative to previously specified models of staff differentiation and utilization . |
| 57 | Sir Leon Brittan tells a famous story of how the Chancellor once raised interest rates half an hour after the Bundesbank , and uses this to illustrate that ‘ British sovereignty lasted for 30 minutes ’ . |
| 58 | In 1970 an agreement was reached between British Waterways Board , Leicestershire County Council , and the Leicestershire Branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England to make part of the site accessible to the public and , so far as possible , to clear sufficient of the track to enable people to get some idea of how the system had been constructed and how it operated . |
| 59 | But of course , the ‘ life from space ’ hypothesis does not answer the question of how the very first organic molecules arose ; and it seems at least as likely that they arose on primitive Earth as elsewhere . |
| 60 | The subterranean passage view offers a plausible account of how the monsters could feed , but unfortunately in doing so it destroys another theory about ‘ Nessie ’ , which is that the animal is a relic of the dinosaur age , possibly a plesiosaur . |