Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] how it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Personal — a subjective response to work and how it meets needs for growth and satisfaction . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The attachment of importance to some and not other concepts within a particular theory is generally a reflection of certain underlying assumptions held by a theory about how society as a whole is organized and how it changes . |
| 6 | A photographer has to really be aware of this , and how light relates to colour and how it relates to black and white . |
| 7 | The emphasis will be on putting everything into context , not only what a particular package achieves but how it does it , how it relates to the other packages in the same area and how it might be extended . |
| 8 | Stains on fabric and leather had yielded to chemical analysis to reveal the exact chemical components of the explosive ; the extent of burn- and impact-deterioration had shown him how much was used , where it had been placed and how it had been triggered . |
| 9 | about this bra top thing she 's got and how it 's got a hole in it and she was trying to think back how it got this hole in it and she remembered that Mark put his fingers through it |
| 10 | How you sound and how it goes if you can |
| 11 | Perdita listened to her mother grinding gears and going on and on and on about how marvellously Perdita had played and how it had been the proudest moment of her life , and how everyone from Rupert to Brigadier Canford said what a great future she had and Drew this and Drew that . |
| 12 | 2 The form of an item is its audible or visible phenomenon : how it sounds and how it looks . |
| 13 | As we said in the last chapter , the Church is well placed to give a positive message at this time , to speak of how mortality is understood and how it fits in with the Christian message of salvation . |
| 14 | Now , to what extent could one move in that direction using a computer , which is a rather precise and definite sort of object that wants to know exactly what it has to do and how it has to do it ? |
| 15 | and that , I 'm saying that how it ends |
| 16 | A number of feminists — Mary Daly is a good example — find it useful to subject words to a kind of archaeological excavation , turning to the etymological dictionaries to find out where a particular word came from , what it meant and how it has changed . |
| 17 | Before you even think of tasting it , pick it up , being aware of how it feels and how it smells . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Well I think that how it came . |
| 20 | With these , you define a chunk of text as an actor — you can do this either in the movie editor or in the Cel editor — and can then define , via dialogue boxes , how it appears onscreen , any movement you want it to have and how it departs the screen . |
| 21 | In the small hours of the next morning , when they were back at La Gracieuse , after dancing her feet raw with Sam , with Rodet , and with half of Normandy , she told John what had happened and how it had come about . |
| 22 | The installation of the thirty-nine rooms conveys , both in how it has been structured and how it has been hung , a preoccupation with the need to avoid repetition and to hold the attention of visitors . |
| 23 | Anyone joining an organisation needs to find out quickly how the organisation is structured and how it works . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In 1970 an agreement was reached between British Waterways Board , Leicestershire County Council , and the Leicestershire Branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England to make part of the site accessible to the public and , so far as possible , to clear sufficient of the track to enable people to get some idea of how the system had been constructed and how it operated . |
| 26 | We , we 've got the how you can help section here , but we 've got nothing at all about what the charity does and how it does it , yes we need some appropriate words for getting the idea that they 're helping children . |
| 27 | Neuroscience , the science of the nervous system , is about what the brain does and how it works . |
| 28 | They should be seeing what they can offer in the modern world rather than what the law does and how it links to the client . ’ |
| 29 | Subsidiary to that , though still important , are the issues of what it has to say and how it came to be : ‘ sources ’ and ‘ designs ’ once more , both things Tolkien disliked , but useful if not essential to a proper reading . |
| 30 | What matters is not just what Parliament decides but how it decides . |