Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But more often than not , whenever they were under the same roof together , he shared her bed and , now that her initial awkwardness had abated — for she had never seen a naked human being of either sex before and had always been discouraged from looking too closely at herself — he made love to her with a straightforward vigour she found attractive .
2 She was uncertain in some places , still finding her way , upstaged by him whenever they were on together , but the rippling golden voice never faltered , and in the Varasdin duet with Freddi she took flight again , gave the whole scene a sense of gaiety and even kept Freddi on key for once .
3 Again the two brothers were pushing at each other and as they all mounted the steps Ellen stepped and walked by the side of her son , something she was in the habit of doing whenever they were in company , and which Joe had been aware of from the time she had recovered after his uncle 's death .
4 Teenaged boys paraded in groups of three or four , jostling each other , laughing and shouting ; groups of girls , on the whole less brash and aggressive , giggled and chattered , calling to the boys whenever they were in range .
5 By experiment and observation , Hahnemann worked out the drug pictures of many remedies and laid down the principles whereby they were to be used — remedies and principles which are still as valid today as they were when Hahnemann first discovered them .
6 The choreographer 's problem is to select which of the movements are appropriate , when and how they are to be incorporated and what style and quality they require .
7 When children do arrive , it is their parents , not their grandparents , who should decide how they are to be brought up .
8 All local plans are intended to develop in detail the broad structure plan policies and indicate how they are to be applied on the ground .
9 Now you put your shoulder to the wheel , your nose to the grindstone , your best foot forward and your back to the wall to see how many clichés you know and how they are to be interpreted or ignored .
10 Again , the counsellor should have prepared the ground thoroughly before the meeting starts , outlining the main areas of concern , and how they are to be introduced .
11 In either case , there will eventually be a need for the consideration of the kinds of human operators required and how they are to be selected and trained .
12 If actions are uncaused then it is not clear how they are to be explained , while , if they are caused , they are not autonomous .
13 For Althusser 's claims are by no means easy to understand , and one reason for this is the fact that they are all exceedingly general , so that it is often unclear how they are to be used for the vital task of explaining particular states of affairs .
14 Most of the vital questions as to how these skills are acquired , how they are to be selected and adjusted according to context , how easily or not different kinds of school environment can accommodate them and so on , are begged .
15 Community nurses have been waiting for news about how they are to be organised for some time , and uncertainty about the future is always bad for morale .
16 In written language , for example , since there is no one-to-one correspondence between the marks ( alphabetic representations ) on the page , and how they are to be pronounced in speech , there is typically a range of alternatives as to how a written letter should be said .
17 It is one thing to speak of involving the student , " teaching concepts rather than facts " , " practising skills " and all the other catch phrases of educational discourse ; it is quite another thing to put them into practice , to find out how to involve the student , to elucidate which concepts are of most importance and which facts are necessary to their understanding , and particularly to distinguish which are the key skills and how they are to be most usefully practised with these students in this situation .
18 The words ‘ in connection with ’ have the widest connotation and I can not see how they are to be restricted in the absence of some context permitting such restriction .
19 They should state how they are to be published or intimated to persons interested .
20 Declarative : The associations between strings and the informational domain are declared in terms of what associations are permitted , not how they are to be calculated .
21 Would it not be a good idea , given the suggestion that all these shady capitalist things happen on only one side of the House , to discuss pension funds and how they are to be controlled ?
22 What I said to you yesterday , I hinted that there were difficulties we do n't know how they are to be resolved .
23 The problem is one of determining what those rights are , how they are to be protected , and how the independence of the judiciary is to be maintained .
24 Where there is to be a separate exchange and completion , which can be for a multitude of reasons , or where there are conditions which need to be satisfied before completion of the subscription can take place , then the subscription and shareholders ' agreement will set out the various conditions precedent and how they are to be satisfied .
25 Time should be spent early in the negotiations concentrating on the conditions precedent and determining how they are to be satisfied .
26 Or the clause may not say how they are to be paid , in which case this should be covered at the time of fixing the procedure .
27 The question is how they are to be interpreted , in order to produce a political formula that will be acceptable to the two communities — and will work .
28 I ca n't remember if I been here before or not — streets look all different at night from how they are in the day .
29 It says they 're based on actual interviews with the women involved and that some additional parts have been written to show how they are in fact involved in a global chain .
30 Well I do n't understand how they 're like that cos I mean there 's , this side of the pot has n't got any and I would of thought I would of put them in
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