Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Erm , Right , erm , we get this thorny question now about how to establish how much somebody needs for living assurance . |
| 3 | She had wanted to know how much it mattered to him because he would n't let on , and it gave her a valuable lever . |
| 4 | Thus , for example , if we wished to know how much we are spending on orthopaedic surgery , the departmental analysis of expenditure will not tell us . |
| 5 | Your neighbour really likes the tree and wants to know how much it would take to compensate you to leave the tree at its current size . |
| 6 | He advises setting aside 15 minutes a day to study and consciously interpret her own and other people 's gestures and he promises that we will be amazed to find how much our ‘ intuitions ’ about people can improve . |
| 7 | A more sophisticated use of doubling and halving was used by another pupil to find how much 3 lbs of pears would cost : the pupil doubled 2 lbs costing 30p to obtain 4 lbs costing 60p and then said that 45 was halfway between 30 and 60 . |
| 8 | He was beginning to wonder how much more he could take . |
| 9 | It 's always good , too , to hear how much being a winner has meant to you . |
| 10 | She was faintly surprised to hear how much it shook , how afraid she sounded … |
| 11 | Ask someone else to justify how much it meant to us . |
| 12 | We did have to predict how much we could help ourselves financially and Joan is pleased to report that through the marvellous efforts made through fund-raising this prediction has been achieved . |
| 13 | Remember the successes , remember the positive improvements ( even look back to six months ago and find it difficult to believe how much better you are meeting the challenge of hearing loss ) and then tell yourself , quite truthfully , that you are growing every day in con |
| 14 | This could be an indication of a continuing unwillingness to recognise how much further advanced are many EEC and OECD centres in their education and training provision for people with disabilities . |
| 15 | Second , he feels guilty about how he treated you and wants to make amends — something people often do when they find happiness because it 's only then that they can afford to consider how much they have hurt others . |
| 16 | The Local Government Finance Act 1988 imposes a duty on local authorities to calculate how much they needed to raise by way of the poll tax . |
| 17 | We can set up situations — as noted by John Webster — in which we try to find out what is important to the animal by looking at what it prefers and trying to assess how much it will work for something ; how important that particular resource is to the animal . |
| 18 | A major part of the nurse 's role is therefore to assess how much help a patient requires and what risks there may be to his safety . |
| 19 | The 1980 Act , however , which introduced the block grant ( see p. 162 ) , allowed the government to assess how much each authority needs to spend and to allocate grant in terms of how far those assessments were breached . |
| 20 | it is n't necessary , well it is the same as saying it is n't true , it is n't necessary er because this will be built up over a period and it will be for er the Government in all the normal ways in the public expenditure round to decide how much goes into the passenger franchises and through that therefore into the Briti the Rail Track investment . |
| 21 | Perhaps directors in particular need to realise how much their vitality means to the continuing performance — that it is n't enough to be left up on a stage merely doing it night after night . |
| 22 | It also teaches us to realise how much we ourselves require God 's forgiveness , and can not claim self-righteousness . |
| 23 | One has only to envisage circumstances in which all those upon whose territory strategic arms are stationed are required to come to the negotiating table to consider such a proposition to realise how much more difficult it would be if all , rather than a limited number , were participating . |
| 24 | Alas , we are not able to report how much cheaper the cars would be if all the current goodies decamped to the options list . |
| 25 | It grieves organic farmers like Brian Tustian of Brackley , Northamptonshire , to see how much their produce has been marked up by the time it reaches the shops . |
| 26 | It comes as a bit of a shock to see how much faster others can sail upwind . |
| 27 | Once you have decided how much you wish to borrow , look at the repayment tables to see how much it will cost . |
| 28 | Presently she glanced down to see how much farther she had to go — and then nearly fell the rest of the way . |
| 29 | and keeking in the mirror to see how much thinner you 're getting ! |
| 30 | She comes along to my classes each week and it is wonderful to see how much more she can exercise now compared with when she first attended . |