Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh adv] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The KGB is answerable to no one and does not even need to attempt to justify what it does or how it does it , therefore there is no incentive for it to become more efficient . |
| 2 | Or how it feels ( if you are the challenger ) to learn that an even larger number of men and women have organised themselves into teams with the sole purpose of stopping you getting anywhere . |
| 3 | A Hoechst spokesman said the fumes were of a concentrated form of sulphuric acid which is irritating to the eyes and throat ; he said it was unclear how much material had leaked or how it had happened . |
| 4 | It will not look at how the decision to make the video is taken or how it fits in with other services the child receives from the SSD , NSPCC , and others . |
| 5 | Thus the butty system slowly declined in importance through the 1920s and 1930s in Nottinghamshire , with Waller reporting from his interviews that ‘ few miners can now remember exactly when or how it disappeared ’ p. 126 ) . |
| 6 | Since communism as well as ‘ socialism ’ has been forever assigned to history 's dustbin , there appears no pressing need for society to come to terms with just what that system was or how it continues to manifest itself . |
| 7 | The reality , I fear , is that the right hon. Gentleman does not understand the economy or how it works . |
| 8 | Why or how it originated is not known , but the Lady Mayoress takes charge of it for the rest of the mayoral year , and no doubt a quick rap over the knuckles will soon curb any tendency the Lord Mayor might have to step out of line . |
| 9 | I do n't know why or how it worked but it certainly took my mind off my voice . |
| 10 | Mrs McIntyre said : ‘ The letter we have received says they do n't know why or how it happened . ’ |
| 11 | SSRs can also be used to describe the problem more clearly and in more detail , which is necessary because the originator of an SPR may not have been able to indicate the full extent of the problem or how it applies to other users . |
| 12 | SSRs can also be used to describe the problem more clearly and in more detail , which is necessary because the originator of an SPR may not have been able to indicate the full extent of the problem or how it applies to other users . |
| 13 | Now if your person were to say come round , said it 's the first time they 've had a fit you get , call an ambulance , it may be epilepsy but it could be anything else , it could erm be , be the start of er something else in the brain because that 's all an epileptic fit is , it 's an electrical impulse , nobody actually knows why or when or how it 's caused , but it happens erm , but above all be very , very nice to your casualties , they 'll want to get up and they 'll run away , they want to get out , especially if it 's outside , because they 're embarrassed by it . |
| 14 | Well then they all come out , everybody , even Dave come out of the union and the only two that were left in it were Jane and Karen on our side and a couple from the warehouse and like there was Judith and I think Sonyou and a couple from the letter shop I , I , I do n't know , I do n't think Elaine went but I think the rest were , yes there were Pam and I think , I think Nigel were , but anyway when Judith comes up about what union money was left , I do n't know where it was left from or how it 's imposed , but they split the |
| 15 | The wind blows where it wills , and you hear the sound of it but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes . |
| 16 | I mean it is it is genuinely part of the definition but the definition they had originally has got stretched and stretched so now it it does n't there 's no obvious tie up with oxidation , meaning burning and taking up oxygen , and reduction is the of opposite , so if you get the oxygen out or you put hydrogen in or where it gains electrons . |
| 17 | I , I 'm always reluctant to put down specific methods of writing new procedures , or who 's responsible for it , or where it 's got to be done because it depends entirely on what it 's about . |
| 18 | ‘ We do n't know why there are these remissions or why it strikes again . |
| 19 | In a letter to Mr Major last night , Mr Smith accused the Prime Minister of giving no good reason why the legal opinion on the Maastricht legislation should not be published or why it overturned the view from the Foreign Office during the last 10 months that a vote in favour of the social chapter would wreck the treaty . |
| 20 | I do n't know how or why it worked , but I stopped waking up in a cold sweat . |
| 21 | Students should come not merely to know that such and such is the case , or that this procedure works , but should be able to offer their own account of why it is the case or why it works . |
| 22 | Weighing it all up , Ramsay came to the conclusion that the chances of capturing the usurper at this stage were all but non-existent , and that their wisest course was to return at once with his dire news to the main Scots array in Annandale or wherever it had reached by now . |
| 23 | Well I think that how it came . |
| 24 | We are continually being told by British Rail that how it spends its money depends on priorities . |
| 25 | and that , I 'm saying that how it ends |
| 26 | In game shooting , some people consistently shoot badly because they always shoot at where the bird has been rather than where it has got to . |
| 27 | The basic idea is that profit from long-term business is recognised as it accrues rather than when it emerges as a cash surplus released from a long-term fund , as the current statutory method dictates . |
| 28 | ‘ Temporary ’ regulations of August 1881 — ultimately extended until the fall of the Empire — empowered the government to declare virtual martial law wherever and whenever it chose to do so . |
| 29 | The policy of ‘ containment ’ , which had guided Washington 's foreign policy since 1947 , was now undermined , because America seemed incapable of defeating Communism wherever and whenever it threatened . |
| 30 | ‘ So you can have your meal where and whenever it suits you . |