Example sentences of "[is] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now on that point , for access someone now needs to pick up and write effectively a simple this is how we project planning on access . |
| 2 | ‘ And this is how we 've done our share , ’ said Adam bitterly . |
| 3 | The performance at Arsenal was an indicator that we are back on song , and that is how we intend to stay . ’ |
| 4 | I was to perform two of Joyce 's pieces , the first being ‘ Committee ’ , a deadly accurate re-creation of a Northern Ladies Choral Committee meeting convened to axe one of its founder members : ‘ Now , we do n't want any unpleasantness , friendly is what we are and friendly is how we mean to go on … but I think we all know there is one voice in the altos that did not ought to be there . |
| 5 | This is how we love to express our dextrous craftsmanship . |
| 6 | Do this is how we have to add up fractions . |
| 7 | Tottenham , it must be said , also had key players absent but what must be disturbing is how they failed to raise their game until a double substitution in the 70th minute . |
| 8 | This is how they came to arrive in Durham in May , 1849 . |
| 9 | Even more amazing is how they managed to arrive at just the right place , and at just the right day and hour required , when not even Charles himself knew where he and his men would be . |
| 10 | THE FIRST thing you notice about The Wishplants is how they make performing on stage look so good and so damn easy . |
| 11 | In fact , they all look like they should be in different bands — which is how they manage to slip from soul to jazz , from funk to thrash , so easily . |
| 12 | Which is how she came to find herself in such an embarrassing position . |
| 13 | This is how I came to know and subscribe to CD REVIEW whose cover-mounted CDs have been excellent . |
| 14 | I took the best I could , and this is how I 've made use of them . ’ |
| 15 | This is how I 've bought mince . |
| 16 | That is what I am concerned with , and that is how I have measured the application . |
| 17 | And that is how I have got along for the last sixty six years . |
| 18 | And this is how you 've got to where you are . |
| 19 | It was time to move on to the offensive : ‘ What I 'd like to know is how you managed to see Newley in Primrose Hill at six o'clock . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ What intrigues me most of all is how you managed to get someone like the editor of the New York Times to agree to back up your cover story . ’ |
| 21 | TV viewers , astute ones , will notice when Norman first hoves on to the screen that his swing is very upright , which is how he started playing this game . |
| 22 | ‘ The question , ’ Benny interrupted , ‘ is how he intends to do it . ’ |
| 23 | well what in actual fact happened , it 's not easy to get Terry Wogan at a moments notice to come and sit down , what in actual fact happens is that we draw up exactly what it is , that , that he would be saying and what the answer will be , he sees that and it 's totally approved , understandably he 's not gon na put his name to anything that he does n't believe is , is correct and that is how it 's done and |
| 24 | This is how it 's done get on with it I 'm going now ! |
| 25 | It 's not a good thing , but this is life and this is how it 's seen . |
| 26 | This is how it has retained its gloriously untouched state both outside and in . |
| 27 | This is how it has happened . |
| 28 | That 's how they 'd met , he told her . |
| 29 | Because that 's how they 'd done it twenty years ago , and that 's how they 're going to do it till they retire . |
| 30 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |