Example sentences of "[conj] how it works " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality , I fear , is that the right hon. Gentleman does not understand the economy or how it works . |
| 2 | Wholesale reform of language to eliminate sexism has proved more difficult , however ; particularly when it has been based on simplistic accounts of what language is and how it works . |
| 3 | Anyone joining an organisation needs to find out quickly how the organisation is structured and how it works . |
| 4 | This bottom-up approach may well be a very fruitful way of trying to understand what language is and how it works , but that does not mean that it is the best way to teach a language , or that it is the way we use a language when we do know it . |
| 5 | Spicer and Riddy 's survey stated that 8 of 24 university departments of education included in their aims ‘ to make students familiar with the application of linguistics , the nature of language and how it works ’ ( 1977 : 50 ) . |
| 6 | No amount of exhortation , attitudinal engineering , incentive planning , or even leadership will have any permanent effect unless we understand what hierarchy is and why and how it works . |
| 7 | Anthony Morgan , Wimpey Hobbs ’ assistant area manager for South Wales explains the benefits of the new system and how it works : |
| 8 | Neuroscience , the science of the nervous system , is about what the brain does and how it works . |
| 9 | You can try to work out whether it is autobiography or murder mystery and how it works within these genre classifications . |
| 10 | they did n't understand the cultures of another country and how it works |