Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very difficult , and I think that people involved in the Gardener Centre have , ever since its inception , found it quite difficult to work how quite how it fits into the overall Brighton scene , and I find it fascinating to look at the nature of facilities which exist in central Brighton and try and work out in one 's own mind how best he facility of the Gardener fits in with that . |
| 2 | This example serves to indicate how comparatively easy it is to legislate for change and how difficult it can be to implement the legislation . |
| 3 | This concept is also linked with the concept of power , which is one used to indicate how much influence a family member has in achieving a desired outcome , by active or passive alignment with other members . |
| 4 | Shindler will carry out an environmental compliance audit , to establish how well a company is complying with existing legislation . |
| 5 | However , [ 15b ] is less direct than [ 15c ] in the sense that the hearer would have to derive the contextual implication conveyed explicitly in [ 15c ] in order to establish how well B got on . |
| 6 | The findings of these discussions will be included in a household survey to establish how widely these preferences and prejudices are held by the general community . |
| 7 | There is in fact evidence to indicate that regressions at intermediate and small scales correlate with coordinated extinction events in particular fossil groups ( e.g. Hallam , 1978 ; Williamson , 1981 ) but much more work is required to establish how generally such a relationship holds . |
| 8 | The second and most detailed stage will be a series of three interview surveys : of solicitors , to establish the amount and kinds of work they do ; of general legal services , such as the Citizens ' Advice Bureaux , to establish how far they complement or duplicate the service provided by solicitors ; and of a sample of the population from selected parishes to find out the kinds of issues that have caused individuals to resort to legal advice . |
| 9 | The aim of the project is to obtain basic information about employers ' policies and practices in the recruitment and management of the work-force , and in particular to establish how far such policies and practices have changed in recent years . |
| 10 | Erm , Right , erm , we get this thorny question now about how to establish how much somebody needs for living assurance . |
| 11 | However , charges of corruption were certainly made at the time , and one must try to discover how firmly they were based . |
| 12 | Chapter 13 records the sending of spies into the country , to discover how well defended it is . |
| 13 | And Alan Millet traced a path to discover how well a man might withstand the sophistication of modern interrogation at the hands of the masters of that art . |
| 14 | SOME time ago , but not so far back that it can be dismissed as incidental , a belligerent centre-half , who needed very little encouragement in such nefarious matters , was instructed to discover how fast the visiting centre-forward could limp . |
| 15 | To A. M. Fairbairn , one had to visit America ‘ to discover how far we have travelled out of the darkness towards the light ’ , while to R. F. Horton , it was a land with ‘ truth open to all who have eyes to see it and those who have not eyes held in wholesome restraint from meddling with those who have ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ It was a huge blow to their pride to discover how far behind they had fallen during isolation — yet coach John Williams has now gone too far the other way . |
| 17 | After some three months have passed it is often wise to conduct a full review of the new systems and to discover how far they have progressed . |
| 18 | We started to do the old trick of counting the time between the lightning flash and the thunderclap to discover how far away the eye of the storm was . |
| 19 | It seeks to discover how far recent crowd eruptions reflect feelings about the condition of the community rather than wider national concerns . |
| 20 | At such a time , when attitudes were changing but no effective consensus had emerged , it was not surprising that Truman should see in Churchill 's forthcoming speech at Fulton ( Missouri ) an opportunity to discover how far a sea-change was taking place in American opinion . |
| 21 | THOUSANDS of people who use Edinburgh 's 500 city centre pubs were today waiting to discover how late the bars can remain open . |
| 22 | The project will analyse the following of selected great magnates : six English earldoms and one contemporary Norman county , to see what exactly was the chronology of the change ; what sorts of men followed great magnates at what dates ; and to discover how precisely the change happened . |
| 23 | Since the questions of apprenticeship and pay lie at the heart of the problem , we should first examine the surviving evidence to discover how long an apprenticeship women actually served , and how much they were paid , before going on to analyse the re-organization of the work process . |
| 24 | Also , it is difficult to know how well Rank 's negotiating position would have held up after cinema admissions had started their precipitate decline in the mid-1950s . |
| 25 | Volunteers are naturally eager to know how well the event has done so it 's best that the cash is totalled before they leave then either banked straight away or placed in the safe keeping of the headteacher or the deputy until the bank opens on the following day . |
| 26 | ( Beware of those therapists who seek to charge you for a complete course of treatment at the very beginning , as it is almost impossible to know how well each individual will respond and therefore how many sessions will be needed . ) |
| 27 | B. When people want to know how well the whole of British industry is doing , they use the success or failure of ICI ( Imperial Chemical Industries ) as a guide , since its products are used by most other firms . |
| 28 | For example , a manufacturer of upholstery fabric may want to know how well his cloth wears , so he gives a certain piece of the cloth a standardized ‘ rubbing ’ test to see how many rubs it can stand before wearing through . |
| 29 | Managers , investors and other interested groups invariably wish to know how well an organization performed during a given period and its financial position at a given point in time . |
| 30 | I just wanted to know how deep his feelings for her were . ’ |