Example sentences of "how they can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect what applied linguistics does is to enquire into cross-cultural accommodation : it transfers ideas and methods from different disciplinary cultures and seeks to demonstrate how they can be made coherent and effective in the different conditions of pedagogic practice . |
| 2 | Starting out with the Boston Consultancy Group , and eventually forming his own firm , Telesis ( Greek for well-planned progress ) , Mr Magaziner specialised in advising large companies ( Ford and General Electric ) and small countries ( Sweden ) on why things cost as much as they do , and how they can be made to cost less . |
| 3 | If we wish to store and manipulate normal form programs in computers it will be worthwhile investigating this and other topics to discover how they can be made more compact . |
| 4 | Fear trained on-site Colombian drillers , mud loggers and well superintendents and their assistants as to which PDC drill bits are the most efficient for various different formations , and how they can be made to drill faster . |
| 5 | The whole scene demonstrates admirably Britten 's approach to words and his understanding of how they can be made vehicles , both for meanings which go beyond their own familiar significations , and for a special kind of music which comes , by some alchemy , from the combination of phonemes and notes . |
| 6 | Ted , based at Research in Coventry in the UK , is involved in environmental work , studying emerging methods of pollution control and considering how they can be applied to Group businesses . |
| 7 | This section discusses these pensions , how they can be increased by additional voluntary contributions , how you can build up a pension if you have no access to an employer 's scheme and how divorce affects your right to your ex-husband 's pension . |
| 8 | What I shall do now is try to back up this last statement by sketching some of the characteristics of childish thought , showing how they can be explained in constructivist terms . |
| 9 | The Arab world has now broken up into three separate components and it is difficult to see how they can be reassembled . |
| 10 | He blames himself for being naive about how such centres come into being , and about how they can be run . |
| 11 | Similarly , with a clearly enunciated history curriculum other departments in the school can see how they can be served on occasion or a basis can be laid in history which they can reinforce . |
| 12 | The scheme booklet should give you the names of the individuals and advise you how they can be reached . |
| 13 | There are plenty on the sample but that is to show how they can be built up . |
| 14 | In later chapters ( such as chapter six ) we will examine doubts like these in depth to see how they arise and how they can be resolved . |
| 15 | It also requires the experience gained from having operated the facilities to understand where the pitfalls are and how they can be avoided . |
| 16 | A person who knows about the different audio-visual and programmed formats , how they work , how they can be repaired , or what in general they are capable of . |
| 17 | This will include information about risk factors and how they can be changed for the long-term good . |
| 18 | We need to know how things are related , not just how they can be taken apart . |
| 19 | When the boy is with his father or the girl is with her mother in the garden , as they constantly are , they learn about the birds they see , the birds that are harmful to the crops , how they can be dealt with , and what birds can be eaten . |
| 20 | Look at plants from all angles to determine how they can be used — maybe you could remove the petals and make a smaller flower with just a few of them ? |
| 21 | Having emphasised the differences between these two approaches , statistical and conceptual , we shall now see how they can be used together . |
| 22 | It will therefore be wise to record details of job changes and about leavers No doubt there are gaps in my scenario , but the range of activity I have described provides ample scope for the beneficial use of computers , so let us see how they can be used In doing so I shall make particular reference to the value of microcomputers . |
| 23 | ‘ It will provide a showcase to business people of all the attributes the industry has in Scotland and how they can be used , while getting a real exchange going as to how it should develop in the future . ’ |
| 24 | This will highlight the respective advantages and disadvantages of the two approaches and show how they can be used to complement one another in the analysis and presentation of large complex datasets . |
| 25 | They look at examples of illuminated manuscripts , and investigate how they can be used as evidence for life in the Middle Ages . |
| 26 | But , as we saw , this will not work ; for if we are to be able to make significant identifying references to qualities , we need a distinction between qualities and their existentially unique instances , and this raises the problem of determining the precise ontological status of such instances : i.e. what such instances are , and how they can be identified and distinguished from each other . |
| 27 | Moving from a low cost to a high price housing area will be of concern : employees will wish to know how they can be helped to meet increased payments . |
| 28 | If we really want to empower minority students , he says , educators themselves must find out why students are failing and how they can be helped . |
| 29 | Another idea is to garner from the experience of those present what the obstructions are , how they can be side-stepped , and produce a guide to best practice aimed at employers . |
| 30 | Laws attempting to regulate corporate activity tend to be excessively vague , consist of ambiguous definitions , and subject to subtle but significant shifts in meanings ; or at least , that is how they can be interpreted , particularly by those desiring to violate them . |