Example sentences of "[is] [Wh adv] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 But what strikes one about their situation and the way they are tackling it is how vary narrowly they are ahead .
2 The problem , particularly for women of such limited resources as Rose of Lima , is how do you , given the restrictions , go about this great work of ‘ penetrating the universe ’ ?
3 The question Brenton appears to be asking , and it is surely as relevant to himself as to his characters , is how do you live after faith and hope have gone ?
4 While crystal ball gazing is an absorbing occupation , for us the question raised is how do education and education managers relate to this scenario ?
5 The question now is how do people relate ‘ in their minds ’ to the objects in their industrial environment ?
6 The question is how do ‘ cultural revolutionary ’ cadres work within a framework of democracy , a word which is not emphasized for the purposes of irony but to indicate what still remains the central principle on which cultural revolution must be conducted .
7 So it 's excellent here , but we know that it 's at a variable , and I think the problem that you were probably facing is how do you secure a a better rate than that .
8 The most popular question of the moment is how do I upgrade my machine .
9 A central issue for many linguists is how do syntax and semantic information combine in language systems .
10 What I want to know is how do they do it ?
11 Erm , so do ho if if the question is how do you react to so- and-so , you 're answer may very well depend on whether you 've just stubbed your toe , against the pavement as you got off the bus .
12 Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations .
13 We might as well be councillor and actually sort of erm stated the problem to which it is very difficult to find a solution and that problem is how do you keep council rents below nine and a half percent , that is a problem to which councillor does not have a solution .
14 What I 'd like to do now is how do we compare the allowance and the expenditure .
15 The the variety does n't make the point , that it is the Chancellor er , who er , the Lord Chancellor , I should say , who who appoints magistrates , but it is n't , that make the point , which I think , is very important , is how do the names get to the Lord Chancellor 's office .
16 Our problem with society is how do we cope with that ?
17 The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools .
18 The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools .
19 Well I think there 's a difficulty here because I think one of the questions is a matter of perspective erm how do you define how you define what sexual harassment is is to an extent a factor of your perspective on the question in that I think that tutors who have been thinking about it in recent years , and women tutors , who have taken the lead in it , have tended to think about the implications from the institutional perspective , that is how do tutors behave to their students and in what ways may that affect students ' studies and their live in the college .
20 Sometimes as adults if a child for instance asks the question ‘ what is death ’ it is very easy to go into quite a long diatribe about life and death and get really profound , whereas in fact all a child may be wanting to know is how do you know if somebody 's dead , how can you tell the difference between somebody being dead and somebody being asleep ?
21 What the High Court or what the local authority have to consider is how do we protect the welfare of those children ?
22 do n't worry about Scott 's how do you spell opin oh opinions , right
23 ‘ What I want to know , ’ she said in a voice as cold as ice , ‘ is when do I cease to be your mistress and become your wife ?
24 the question you 're asking is when do we decide our priorities ?
25 The question I 'm puzzling over , which perhaps proves that sociology is the study of the bleeding obvious , is why do you , or do n't you go to clubs ?
26 Perhaps the first question to be answered is why do so many sedimentologists concentrate on sedimentary petrography ?
27 They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm .
28 I thought well that 's fair comment cos there 's people 's houses I 'd stay away from cos I do n't like the wives , so I mean , you know , that 's , I do n't go round , but the thing is she 's been gone about what three year now , four year or something or however long it is why do n't she come now ?
29 Erm on er , Alton Towers which you brought up again er the question is where do you stop ?
30 If you are , what I want you to do is to , to create a , a team plan and the first thing we need to decide in that team plan is where do we wan na get ?
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