Example sentences of "[to-vb] how this " in BNC.

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1 represents less than 60% of the value at risk , we should obtain a full statement from the insured to establish how this has arisen .
2 From William James at the end of the last century to the present day , psychologists have speculated and experimented to discover how this is done .
3 Part of the fieldworker 's problem is to discover how this abstract schema is expressed in the verbal statements by which his informants describe their cosmology .
4 It was difficult to know how this could be rectified .
5 I want to know how this man got into the courtyard — somebody must have opened the main door and gate for him and it 's possible that somebody going out may have seen him .
6 Although no one seems to know how this will be defined in practice , all observers agree that a news service will clearly play a crucial part .
7 " I say , you do n't happen to know how this blessed thing works , do you ? " he asked the person who had just come into the music-room .
8 They want to know how this sector can be promoted , how the quality of care can be improved , and how private doctors can participate in national public health policies .
9 But I want to know how this is going to affect people in the streets .
10 This project , which is a continuation in some respects of work conducted in 1981-2 , seeks to evaluate how this change in policy originated , how it has affected crime rates and penal policy in other respects , to what extent the policy is now being modified , and the implications for sentencing and imprisonment in Britain .
11 One of the themes of the book is to explore how this contradiction is negotiated in popular discourse via an examination of newspapers .
12 I should be interested to hear how this consciousness can square with their proposal to instigate over 100 heavy lorry journeys a day from Wensleydale to Redcar instead of one train in each direction .
13 Well I want to hear how this will affect people out there , the voters .
14 Erm , er you know , I do n't , I would n't even begin to suggest how this particular effect was achieved .
15 It is not too difficult to imagine how this could slip quietly into polyandry : females could develop the habit of mating with a second male and letting him care for her second clutch .
16 It seems difficult to imagine how this could come about .
17 If we are to comprehend how this has come about , we need to start with some simple modelling of the relations between mental functions .
18 Without the use of the capital and small letters in combination , it would not have been possible to identify how this piece of notation had been synthesized .
19 In order to illustrate how this can be done , let us start with the inventory or Abigail Pilmay ( 1698 ) , a Silkstone ( Yorks ) widow who left personal estate valued at just over £300 :
20 The main purpose of the meeting is to address how this may be achieved and in particular to discuss coach education elements which might be included in revised qualifications , and what resources the Council and NCF are making available in Scotland directly to assist governing bodies .
21 It is hard to understand how this might have occurred , especially when the primary cause of urban economic decline — the processes of corporate restructuring discussed in Chapter 2 — were never addressed .
22 In order to understand how this happens we need to understand two ideas that are central to cognition theory .
23 It is , therefore , worth taking a little time and trouble to understand how this can be attained and is the purpose of this short article .
24 To understand how this applies to all 12 keys it is helpful to know the starting form , as each key will continue sequentially up the fretboard from the starting pattern .
25 To understand how this is possible , we need to consider how laws against corporate activities are enforced and the social meaning of sanctions imposed by typical violators .
26 To understand how this could be involves some understanding of the representation problem , and to decide that any given pattern of behaviour has this character of being , as one might put it , ‘ biologically discouraged ’ requires one to be able to read the historical record .
27 Perhaps the greatest challenge for the future is to understand how this signalling pathway operates in the CNS .
28 To understand how this view developed we have to recall the effect of the insights into oral language acquisition that came from the work of Chomsky .
29 The problem is to understand how this undoubted fact finds a consistent place within quantum theory .
30 Artificial Intelligence tries to understand how this knowledge and language interact , and to reproduce the process in computers .
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