Example sentences of "be [conj] how it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mail and it says about what a lovely family they are and how it 's got ta |
| 2 | A short talk about what meditation really is and how it relates to the transformation of self , concentrating on meditation on awareness of breath and body . |
| 3 | ‘ We begin around 12 telling them what a baby is , why it 's the sex it is and how it comes about . |
| 4 | Wholesale reform of language to eliminate sexism has proved more difficult , however ; particularly when it has been based on simplistic accounts of what language is and how it works . |
| 5 | This bottom-up approach may well be a very fruitful way of trying to understand what language is and how it works , but that does not mean that it is the best way to teach a language , or that it is the way we use a language when we do know it . |
| 6 | Since communism as well as ‘ socialism ’ has been forever assigned to history 's dustbin , there appears no pressing need for society to come to terms with just what that system was or how it continues to manifest itself . |