Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How are the dear children ? ’ she asked Mrs Mitchell in a letter of 28 May , ‘ Do they appear to retain any recollections of papa and Mamma ? |
| 2 | .. How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished ! |
| 3 | How are the four language skills ( listening , speaking , reading and writing ) distributed ? 15 Are exercises controlled ? |
| 4 | So how are the poor trying to meet the energy crunch ? |
| 5 | If Omarska was what they call a good camp , how are the poor bastards suffering in others ? |
| 6 | How are the roast potatoes done ? |
| 7 | Now tell me , how are the other children ? |
| 8 | How are the millions being spent ? |
| 9 | And , following on from the first two , how are the Arab societies in whose region the war is being fought affected ? |
| 10 | How are the Armed Forces to perform their purpose in war ? ’ |
| 11 | We have suggested that the latter are confirmable or disconfirmable by appeal to the former ; but how are the two related so that such confirmation can take place ? |
| 12 | How are the two sets of components related ? |
| 13 | How are the two positions to be reconciled ? |
| 14 | How are the engineered artifact and the traditional process of cooking represented in words and images and are these representations gendered masculine or feminine ? |
| 15 | So , how are the major corporates implementing this joint strategy ? |
| 16 | But how are the different types of cone arranged in the hexagonal mosaic of the fovea ? |
| 17 | ‘ How are the Scottish schools going to manage ? ’ |
| 18 | ( 2 ) How are the delegated responsibilities allocated ? |
| 19 | And how are the organizing principles , as it were , embedded or encoded within the egg ? |
| 20 | so I had to make conversation then I said erm so how are the old Colts B doing and he goes er had a bit of a junior |
| 21 | How are the so-called bed-blockers to be identified ? |
| 22 | Back on earth , how are the thousands of accountants who have been laid off faring ? |
| 23 | One of the first questions which this thesis attempts to answer is whether these three definitions of risk can be sensibly used , and if they can , how are the three types of risk related to one another ? |
| 24 | How were the cross-grain mouldings on antique walnut furniture originally cut ? |
| 25 | How were the surplus shirts sold ? |
| 26 | By contrast , how is the primary school to manage what it is that passes to the secondary school ? |
| 27 | Stirring her coffee , she asked , ‘ How is the spot-nosed monkey ? ’ |
| 28 | There are really two questions : who can stay in the home and how is the financial stake to be divided ? |
| 29 | Confronted with equations like ‘ one penny saved times ’ and confounded by the producer 's sales talk , how is the small manufacturer to appreciate what makes the difference between ‘ cheap and cheerful ’ and ‘ cheap and nasty ’ ? |
| 30 | It will fail to ask the rather broader and much more important question about retailing : how is the great British public likely to be doing its shopping in five or 10 years ' time ? |