Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Although the agricultural departments may make competent judgements about the suitability of hill land for agriculture or forestry it is difficult to comprehend how they might also make an assessment of the potential wider impact of a change in land use without considerably more evidence than is currently available .
2 One development in this respect is known as the ‘ Portage ’ programme , where the parents of the child are taught how they might best develop the potential of the child in a home environment .
3 Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head .
4 It is often quite surprising to discover just how aware children are of their own needs and how they can frequently articulate the type of resource they need .
5 She said that she had had people come to her office in tears , not knowing how they could possibly meet the cost of a funeral .
6 But if , on days when they can not see the sun , small magnets strong enough to drown the earth 's comparatively feeble magnetic signals are attached to their heads , they get lost .
7 However they may not need a bus much longer .
8 However they can still read a very high percentage of pre-morbidly familiar words accurately , regardless of their spelling .
9 The purpose of recording interviews is to give students a chance to see themselves in a situation where they ca n't predict the direction an exchange may take .
10 And alternatives where they wo n't follow the procedure .
11 Eventually , when it comes back to the switchboard , they will know that you 've not answered , and they can say ‘ I 'm sorry , there 's nobody there , would you like to leave a message ’ , in which case , that call will then be diverted to a particular message desk , where they will just take a very brief message which will be passed onto you .
12 We can not dictate what our children will make of the Community , but we must leave them in a position where they can effectively influence the shape of Europe , and that Europe must be one in which we retain our distinct national identity .
13 But they have n't got it quantified to such a point where they can actually distinguish a tonsillectomy which might have a lot of procedures but actually takes about half a minute with er other things that are , you know , much much more complicated and the cost of tonsillectomies is unreasonably high compared with erm , you know , with
14 They nab easily saleable items that they can push out through boot sales , that type of thing , where they can really make the money .
15 They 're wondering why they ca n't see a human inside , he thought .
16 Thanks to a story two weeks ago in InformationWeek headlined ‘ Take One , It 's Free , ’ Unix System Labs is having to explain to potential Destiny customers why they ca n't have a free copy of SVR4.2 .
17 They were then asked why they could not raise the money by staying at home and working on the land .
18 So that when they come to assessment in the Upper School … they can actually analyse and rationalize why things work and why they do n't , why they should change direction , why they should give up and start again , and why they should logically follow the piece through .
19 When they want us to listen , we begin by giving advice or telling them why they should n't feel the way they do , and we do nothing but trample all over their feelings .
20 Anyway , there 's no reason why they should n't pick a law student for the first fifteen . ’
21 Many people who care or who are cared for find it difficult to understand why they can not get the resources for that care when such vast amounts go towards people who are in residential care .
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