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 . |