Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever it came to matters of personal security , suggestions for improving it were welcome from any quarter . |
| 2 | As far as the knowledge and business enterprise of the producers reach , they in each case choose those factors of production which are best for their purpose , the sum of the supply prices of those factors which are used is , as a rule , less than the sum of the supply prices of any other set of factors which could be substituted for them ; and whenever it appears to the producers that this is not the case , they will , as a rule , set to work to substitute the less expensive method . |
| 3 | I do n't know if I want to marry him , or if I will whenever it comes to the crunch . |
| 4 | The decision will be taken by this Government whenever it has to be taken . |
| 5 | But there is nothing laid down in law whereby it has to be a Thursday . |
| 6 | Could n't they see how it had to be nourished ? |
| 7 | Kānchho , Kalchu 's younger brother , and Śa kar would take him in the morning , and Kānchho would stay there with him — if that was how it had to be . |
| 8 | The past and the future were one , she explained hastily , and that was how it had to be . |
| 9 | ‘ Club before country was how it had to be for me because injury and suspension have left me with only 11 players for Arbroath 's league game with Brechin City on Saturday , ’ said McGrain . |
| 10 | She 's a very conceited woman , Pete the adulterous told me she was a very conceited woman and er Neil says I I I 'd have to talk to him to him about this , she could n't discuss anything with him she would lay down the law , that was how it had to be and I said no I said Gerry and I , I had no hesitation , as I said , in putting the boot in and Brenda and Dave take the same the attitude to children that you let them first of all when they 're small , you have to tell them no like you do not |
| 11 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 12 | And how it led to a race riot and running battles in the street is something no one tries to explain . |
| 13 | Well , she told me how it come to be closed . |
| 14 | However most practitioners of literary stylistics , including Halliday himself on a later occasion ( Halliday 1971 ) , would insist on supplementing the comparative approach just described with some kind of functional analysis — analysis , that is , that asks what the language of a text does , how it contributes to the meaning and effect of the whole . |
| 15 | He was a keen student of the scriptures , particularly the Book of Revelations , and while meditating in his Calabrian retreat on the mystery of the Trinity and how it related to the time-process he had moments of intense spiritual illumination that led him to formulate a new millenarian philosophy of history . |
| 16 | Apart from getting the teacher 's overview of what happened , how it related to what he had planned , and how he regarded the unit 's contribution to events , the observer can often learn more about individual episodes . |
| 17 | Obviously , and understandably , working-class men and women took a very instrumental view of education and how it related to their needs and the opportunities available and open to them in society . |
| 18 | How we explained they interpreted and explained unemployment , and how it related to their other political beliefs and behaviour . |
| 19 | The pupils concentrated on the science of light and colour , and how it related to art . |
| 20 | Asked how it felt to be Thatcher 's heir apparent , November 1990 . |
| 21 | Surely this was how it felt to be dead — empty all through , and cold . |
| 22 | The moment passed , and he tried to imagine what she was going through , how it felt to her . |
| 23 | It was about time he learned how it felt to be on the receiving end for a change . |
| 24 | Thus it is necessary to examine the cell more closely and to try and understand its internal programme and how it responds to external signals . |
| 25 | I 'll just have to see how it responds to treatment . ’ |
| 26 | The answers should have important implications for understanding how the normal nervous system develops and functions and how it responds to injury and disease . |
| 27 | In contrast to the balanced growth incidence analysis , we now allow k to vary and we are interested in how it responds to changes in the level of debt , with the taxes being adjusted to secure budget balance . |
| 28 | As the train approached Wolverhampton , Powell the historian told me about the foundation of the town in the 10th century and how it grew to prosperity making weapons for the Civil War . |
| 29 | In caring for a doll or in constructing conversations between soft toys or puppets , children explore how it feels to be a parent rather than a child , a nurse rather than a patient , a teacher rather than a pupil . |
| 30 | Now we know how it feels to be together fully , how can we be content with anything less ? ’ |