Example sentences of "[noun sg] how [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah but if you have a secret vote how do they know what you voted for ?
2 The locations of all fire alarm contact points within the building should be made known to every member of the staff who should be instructed by practical demonstration how to activate the alarm system .
3 That 's in no dictionary how do you spell it and what does it mean ?
4 If the maintenance of confidentiality is of critical importance consider notifying members of the MAS department how to respond to telephone enquiries .
5 No composer today knows better how to have fun in his music than Malcolm Arnold , and these five overtures — from his very first orchestral work , Beckus the Dandipratt , completed in 1943 , to The Fair Field of 1973 — have their full measure of it .
6 I I know the question about rent was mentioned but , I 'm just talking generally now , I asked this question to another housing association how do you justify rents of sixty pounds and above for accommodation and social housing ?
7 Mummy how join the pantomime .
8 Nor show a blindworm how to blink ,
9 The teaching which followed aimed to show children through exposition and practice how to answer correctly those types of questions which they got wrong .
10 He learnt then and in later practice how to jump into a bobbing canoe , letting his feet give under him without capsizing the frail Folbot .
11 In a sense , we all understand perfectly well what experiences are ; it is when we are challenged to explain this understanding that we are at a loss how to put it into words .
12 ‘ Oh , Stevens , ’ he began with a false air of nonchalance , but then seemed at a loss how to continue .
13 Just as war began the Communist Party had published a short pamphlet How to Win the War , which outlined the Party 's continued opposition to fascism and its intention of participating in the war effort .
14 If managers were better informed of practice activity before 1990 and spent time equipping general practitioners instead of attacking them , they would learn from the general practitioner how to maintain quality of care .
15 Vote-guidance seekers found both the press and television specially useful for making up their mind how to vote .
16 Garland was shaken and he was still making up his mind how to react when the doorbell rang .
17 He had made up his mind how to play the next bit now .
18 He did not answer , just stood there looking at her as if trying to make up his mind how to begin .
19 She not only had the figure of a mannequin but she had learned from the girls at the salon how to walk , how to hold her head up , how to appear perfectly poised .
20 You spent a week in the countryside being lectured on British business practices , company law how to address a Duke … all sorts of things like that .
21 So a whole generation that has learned how to break the law how do we create them into law-abiding citizens ?
22 Later on she taught her grand-daughter how to sew , how to make tripe , and she taught her politics .
23 yeah , how can you joined to the machine how come she pulled it off so quickly ?
24 By using a statistical technique called cluster analysis , he hopes to teach the machine how to make the matches for itself .
25 At a parade a few years before the war , when the Crown Prince was a major rising thirty , the Kaiser had shown him up before all his men by calling out to the Brigadier , ‘ teach the boy how to ride ! ’ , and now their relationship was as distant and difficult as ever .
26 And teach his malice how to wound the more
27 One of my more cynical film critic friends uses me as his personal ‘ shriekometer ’ to gauge how freaked out Joe Public is going to be by some of the grizzlier horror movies we have to sit through .
28 You may end up ‘ training ’ your child how to escalate her demanding behaviour .
29 Some children have little idea of how to chew and so parents demonstrating biting and chewing and talking about it shows the child how to do it .
30 Here is the great mistake ; here all the trouble begins ; we teachers are much too fond of teaching and imposing our Preconceived and traditional ideas upon the child ; too ready to give advice ; to show the child how to do it ; to teach and improve , always from our own standards , our own conventions .
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