Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I asked for money from my husband he would talk of all the expenses , of how much it cost the family to keep me . |
| 2 | Are you aware of how much Ms Penumbra has invested in you ? ’ |
| 3 | But on reflection , she had realized that no one had taken the friendship with the USSR wholly seriously , and now the realization of how much worry it must have caused the Führer and ‘ the greatness of his diplomacy ’ made her feel ‘ quite small ’ . |
| 4 | Too much sunlight might impress upon me the idea of how much more agreeable it would be out of doors rather than hunched over a sheet of almost blank paper . |
| 5 | Sometimes I wonder that she did n't collapse under the sheer weight of how much we needed her , of how unreasonably we all admired and needed her . |
| 6 | If you need to use them , you now have a record of how much they will cost , in advance . |
| 7 | There is a range of behavioural methods which animals use to try to cope with the conditions , and again we can make measurements of how much they are having to use these . |
| 8 | Clearly the question of how much it costs to sustain at home elderly people with dementia is a very important one , but it is one which is very difficult to answer . |
| 9 | Grazers have the enormous advantage that there is plenty of their favourite food available , all around them , stretching for as far as the eye can see and regrowing time and again regardless of how much they crop it . |
| 10 | In hot weather you may not be aware of how much a horse is sweating because it evaporates so quickly . |
| 11 | The Saturn-Pluto ‘ square ’ of March 20 and October 9 will cast a shadow over coming months , making you highly aware of how much influence you can bring to bear and how circumstance and other people can block you . |
| 12 | Romanians are very well aware of how much they have inherited from the Ceauşescu regime and how difficult it is , with the best will in the world , to purge the moral degradation from their souls . |
| 13 | When there 's a producer you get into those inevitable conflicts of how much a sequence costs and who should be in the picture — and I do n't want that noise . ’ |
| 14 | But Marion Molteno leaves things in the air , where they belong — perhaps as an indication of how much there still is to do that whispers ‘ whatever you do , do n't do nothing … ’ |
| 15 | If there remains an insistent voice that keeps telling you there is something ‘ wrong ’ with sleeping twelve hours a day , or reminding you of how much there is to do , turning into a vegetable may not be an effective technique , and something more explosive or cathartic may be required . |
| 16 | We are more aware , too , of how much greater , usually , is the influence of social and economic institutions — the strategic factors shaping society — than that of conscious policy . |
| 17 | Few governments have much idea of how much waste their citizens produce and what it consists of , let alone where it can be put . |
| 18 | The army continued with its exercises and I continued with my life ; friends from the TA would join the regular army , returning months later with stories of how much tougher things were there . |
| 19 | By " aptitude " Carroll meant " the amount of time needed to learn a task under optimal instructional conditions ' and not its more usual connotation of how much a student is capable of learning . |
| 20 | Each authority is set a ‘ grant related expenditure assessment ’ ( GREA ) based on computation by the Department of the Environment of how much each authority needs to spend to achieve a common level of services with other authorities of the same type . |
| 21 | And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another . |
| 22 | In words , the EQ of a given species such as a rhino or a cat , is a measure of how much bigger ( or smaller ) the animal 's brain is than we should expect it to be , given the animal 's body size . |
| 23 | I think of what each group produced , not in terms of how far from a conclusion they were , but in terms of how much they had achieved . |
| 24 | And he has n't the least idea of how much it will come to . |
| 25 | ( Test of how much we use our local stations ) : What are the approximate journey times by the most direct route : — |
| 26 | ( Test of how much we use our local lines . ) |
| 27 | It would seem amazingly out of step for east European countries to be finding their national indentities after 40 years of being forced into artificial political groupings while the rest of Europe was seeking to impose federalism and political union on its member states at the same moment when they are starting down the road to a single European market — perhaps the acid test of how much one of us wants the Common Market to succeed . |
| 28 | Its answer to the problem is either that it is entitled to more money from central Government , regardless of how much its rate support grant for the social services sector has risen , or that it needs the unfettered right to raise further taxes locally . |
| 29 | The hon. Member for Sheffield , Brightside ( Mr. Blunkett ) raised the question of how much it cost to collect a tonne of rubbish in one place as opposed to another . |
| 30 | Thus when carnal and financial imagery in the tale finally merge in the puns taille and taillynge at the very end , it is an emblem of how much deeper the " " bretherhede " " and " " cosynage " " runs that the monk and the merchant imagine exists between them in the form of play , or as a polite figure of speech , and how concrete it is . |