Example sentences of "[conj] how 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 Well I think that how it came .
16 We are continually being told by British Rail that how it spends its money depends on priorities .
17 and that , I 'm saying that how it ends
18 Last month I wrote about the use of the N1 cam and how it determines the position of the pattern .
19 It goes without saying , of course , that neglecting a horse 's physical needs will damage or undermine a horse 's health , and consequently its well-being and how it feels in itself .
20 My years of dancing , beginning long before I was anorexic , have made me very body-conscious , both in how my body looks and how it feels .
21 I 've thought and thought about us — about us being together like this , and whether you really loved me and how it feels when you kiss me . ’
22 And thirdly , in order to unravel the totality of things that are and see how it is inwardly articulated and how it emanates into the diversity of the world as we experience in the ordinary way , your thought has to follow a special kind of logic , dialectical logic , which exhibits the process of thought and simultaneously the process of reality as one that proceeds by things being or things being said , and these giving rise to their opposites , to contradictions , and these contradictory moments or items being taken up in a greater , synthesizing whole .
23 These quandaries can only be overcome , I believe , by remembering how the dinosaur species emerged , and how it died off in relays , and that there was a great diversity of size .
24 Tell us what it is you did , and how it befell . ’
25 By using such evidence the historian can come to terms with some of the everyday reality of the war , and how it touched the lives and outlook of men and women , famous and not so famous , rich and poor , whose experiences are described in the proceedings of civil and criminal cases which have come down to us in some number .
26 Note the loss of the thumb on the hand of this kind of monkey and how it uses its first or index finger to grip items of food .
27 Purging this of its state-centrism , we must ask why the capitalist global system relies on stability in the Third World and how it uses the transnational capitalist class , whether in the form of the triple alliance or some other grouping , to deliver this .
28 This could be a pivotal review as the direction of any government depends crucially on the level of its spending commitments and how it uses its resources .
29 ‘ The present is and always was a common law action for personal injuries caused by the negligence or breach of duty of the defendants , and it lies on the plaintiff to show what was this duty of the defendants towards the plaintiff , and how it arose .
30 How you sound and how it goes if you can
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