Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually — after how long ? — the pains passed , and she was able to stand up . |
| 2 | So even the employed would have a need , but it might not be so urgent , but it might not be so urgent as the self-employed guy , whose gon na need money after how long ? |
| 3 | A salesperson can therefore usefully spend time considering how best to respond to these recurring situations . |
| 4 | There are at present over 100 pupils from every country in Europe except England , a strange exception considering how grossly ignorant our farriers are ’ . |
| 5 | Each isotope also has a ‘ half life ’ — an indication of how fast its radioactivity will decay . |
| 6 | The Hubble constant is a measure of how fast the Universe is expanding , and the age and the size of the Universe are related to it . |
| 7 | This was a test of how fast the regiment could pack up and move out to its battle positions , and was supposed to come as a big surprise , but Maxim knew how easy it was to predict . |
| 8 | Legends for thermometers : CPU Speed A measure of how fast the central Processor actually works — it takes into account all manner of computations . |
| 9 | It was an example of how physically the unique , 4¼-mile race gets to people . |
| 10 | Someone with this expectation may therefore compare jobs in terms of level of wages and job security , and not in terms of how intrinsically rewarding the job is . |
| 11 | The boy was not then aware , of course , of how frequently an idling or unanchored mind can be disturbed by the accidental experience of receiving luminous images from out of clear , sharp light when it is itself cast in any sort of shadow . |
| 12 | Herod had arrested John because John kept reminding Herod of how wrong he had been to marry Herodias , who was already married to Herod 's brother Philip . |
| 13 | The apologies may be veiled and may take the form of a reversal of previous policies , but they nevertheless constitute the admission of how wrong the Government have been . |
| 14 | Sony 's $3.4billion acquisition of Columbia Pictures is a vivid illustration of how even national symbols can fall prey . |
| 15 | At the other extreme , the pure choice end of the spectrum , are explicit statements of choice , preference , approval , or disapproval : which party people think is best on economic matters for themselves and their families , for Britain as a whole , or for the unemployed ; their evaluations of how well each party has handled issues like unemployment , inflation , defence , health , education , and social services ; how warm they feel towards parties and their leaders ; whether the parties should change their leaders or their policies , or both ; and , last but not least , voting preferences . |
| 16 | They may instead become increasingly determined to gain access to a school in a nearby LEA with a ‘ better class ’ of pupil , irrespective of how well that school is doing for its intake . |
| 17 | ‘ a management tool comprising a systematic , documented , periodic and objective evaluation of how well environmental organisation , management and equipment are performing with the aim of helping to safeguard the environment by : ( i ) facilitating management control of environmental practices ; and ( ii ) assessing compliance with company policies , which would include meeting regulatory requirements ’ . |
| 18 | It is now open to the public as a prize example of how well organic farming can function . |
| 19 | After six months , when the new employee has had a chance to settle in and learn the ropes , make a thorough and honest assessment of how well she/he is fulfilling the requirements . |
| 20 | I asked for details of how well they had maintained their new figures or if , in fact , they had n't . |
| 21 | Of course , the real crux of the matter is the question of how well people are able to balance against one another several different sets of figures relating to credit cost . |
| 22 | We have little idea of how well other old people cope without the help of the formal sector , though it is not unreasonable to suppose that many struggle in a considerable degree of discomfort and risk . |
| 23 | Assessment would be no more than a subjective judgement of how well the student could perform specific DTP tasks . |
| 24 | Clough added : ‘ He 's earned himself a contract not because of how well he has done for us , but because I think he can carry on after 32 . ’ |
| 25 | This call just had to be an act of purest derision , a flaunting of how well this enemy had foretold Jaq 's actions — or even was psychically alert to Jaq 's whereabouts . |
| 26 | On the other hand , a study of how well deprived children fare as parents 20 or 30 years later would require not only individual interviews but careful measures of parental competence . |
| 27 | The idea is to compare a store 's performance not just with its historical record , but with some more objective measure of how well it should be doing . |
| 28 | An estimate of how well the non-crystallographic fivefold symmetry is conserved has been made by applying an exact fivefold rotation for a given atom and determining the r.m.s.d. from the observed positions . |
| 29 | The survival of the 1947 constitution without major change since the US occupation ended , is taken as evidence of how well it fits with the attitudes and expectations of contemporary Japan . |
| 30 | If the skirting is painted in a different colour to the walls , do n't forget to stick a smaller sample of the skirting colour next to the wall colour so you have an idea of how well they work together . |