Example sentences of "and how [pron] can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starting out with the Boston Consultancy Group , and eventually forming his own firm , Telesis ( Greek for well-planned progress ) , Mr Magaziner specialised in advising large companies ( Ford and General Electric ) and small countries ( Sweden ) on why things cost as much as they do , and how they can be made to cost less . |
| 2 | Fear trained on-site Colombian drillers , mud loggers and well superintendents and their assistants as to which PDC drill bits are the most efficient for various different formations , and how they can be made to drill faster . |
| 3 | It also requires the experience gained from having operated the facilities to understand where the pitfalls are and how they can be avoided . |
| 4 | But , as we saw , this will not work ; for if we are to be able to make significant identifying references to qualities , we need a distinction between qualities and their existentially unique instances , and this raises the problem of determining the precise ontological status of such instances : i.e. what such instances are , and how they can be identified and distinguished from each other . |
| 5 | In later chapters ( such as chapter six ) we will examine doubts like these in depth to see how they arise and how they can be resolved . |
| 6 | This will include information about risk factors and how they can be changed for the long-term good . |
| 7 | If we really want to empower minority students , he says , educators themselves must find out why students are failing and how they can be helped . |
| 8 | ‘ It will provide a showcase to business people of all the attributes the industry has in Scotland and how they can be used , while getting a real exchange going as to how it should develop in the future . ’ |
| 9 | Your son 's teacher should be able to refer him to an educational psychologist who 'll try to find out why he acts as he does , and how he can be helped . |
| 10 | His relational model is a theory of what data is and how it can be stored and retrieved . |
| 11 | Most of the summer pond problems are easily prevented providing you are aware of what causes the trouble , and how it can be overcome . |
| 12 | Anxious to proceed as carefully as possible the Procuratia has engaged the conservation firm Syremont ( part of the Ferruzzi-Montedison group ) to assess the damage and how it can be stabilised . |
| 13 | Describe IBM 's VSAM software , explaining how it operates and how it can be optimized . |
| 14 | An emeritus Fellow at Merton College , Sir John Badenoch was asked to investigate what cryptosporidium is , and how it can be prevented . |
| 15 | Finally , the whole idea of people 's education will need elaboration , and how it can be implemented will depend on these political developments . |
| 16 | They contain background information to help engineers and all interested parties to gain a fuller understanding of the Code and how it can be implemented . |
| 17 | Long before the director first calls ‘ Action ’ , or anybody has to worry about time , money , the weather or an irritable starlet , the producer , director and writer can sort out the lineaments of the project by focusing on what the film is trying to do , and how it can be made to work . |
| 18 | Is there agreement amongst researchers about the nature of child abuse and how it can be defined ? |
| 19 | discussing how communication has been used to ignite or aggravate these conflicts , and how it can be used to alleviate them ; |
| 20 | We have a confused and overlapping structure er er , the honourable member might be interested in just how confused it is er and how it can be simplified by er going along with the proposals we 're putting forward on this side of the er er the house because there 's so many overlapping authorities it 's just not clear who 's actually responsible for enforcement and compliance . |
| 21 | This fear of cats , or ailurophobia to give it its technical name , is rare , but when it does occur it can cause untold misery for the sufferer and it is worth examining how it begins and how it can be cured . |
| 22 | Next January the Single European Market takes effect and the conference will highlight the vital role of research and technological development and how it can be shared across national boundaries . |
| 23 | To understand how money supply expands and contracts , and how it can be controlled , it is thus necessary to understand what determines the size of bank deposits . |
| 24 | ‘ The best way to fight this appalling illness is to make sure everybody knows about Aids and how it can be fought . |
| 25 | There 's a whole range of things from the Foreign Office downwards where they have made mistakes costing many millions of pounds and we shall certainly be wanting to take evidence from this area of activity just to see what went wrong and how it can be put right and how we can prevent this sort of thing happening in the future . ’ |