Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh adv] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I AM curious to know how so many of our caring , hard working and underpaid MPs find time to write books , serve as directors and appear on radio and TV shows unconnected with politics . |
| 2 | We need to know where so we can recover it , ’ the other voice added . |
| 3 | Col. Dabson wanted to know why so much money was to be spent on open spaces such as Radford Park and the recreation ground . |
| 4 | Similarly , when he visits the south-east region , he will want to know why so many sales people are investing their time in the office rather than out on the road selling . |
| 5 | ‘ I always used to wonder why so many players retired without putting anything back into their clubs . |
| 6 | If you imagine suddenly and unexpectedly finding yourself in an almost vertical dive facing the ground , it is easy to understand why so many pilots fail to make a movement forward on the stick to help the glider unstall itself . |
| 7 | It is difficult for the athletes who know Daley to understand why so many people are unable to get along with him . |
| 8 | It is not difficult to understand why so many journalists and broadcasters fell foul of Nkrumah 's government . |
| 9 | It is easy now to understand why so many cameramen have filmed their own deaths . |
| 10 | And to this day I shall never be able to understand why so many of my generation , by the time they were in their teens , had a mouthful of dentures because it was not due to eating sweets . |
| 11 | It is difficult to understand why so many media interests voluntarily accept " D " notices : the system would not work without their support . |
| 12 | It is easy to see why so many people , from Hobbes onwards , have regarded the possession of de facto power , of actual effective power over the behaviour of people , as crucial to the possession of legitimate authority . |
| 13 | Add to this the copyright problems — there will be no retrospective recognition of copyright for foreign books and so back-lists will remain unprotected — and it is easy to see why so many publishers simply sigh and pass on . |
| 14 | This was a real benefit , and helps to explain why so many medieval campaigns rapidly declined into a series of fruitless sieges and failed to lead to any deep penetration of enemy territory . |
| 15 | The British troops were very friendly with the Madeirans and many courted the local girls , which is said to explain why so many fair-haired and blue-eyed men and women of obvious Anglo-Saxon ancestry are to be seen in Madeira . |
| 16 | ( This helps to explain why so many English liberals ceased to support France when they heard that Paris had been taken over by the ‘ mob ’ in 1793 . ) |
| 17 | This ambiguity of language helps to explain why so many interpretations of Wordsworth 's philosophy and religion were able to arise . |
| 18 | But if the Franks were the dominant partner it is difficult to explain why so much material should have been channelled towards England with little apparently going back in return . |
| 19 | In Nuuk are all the comforts of civilisation , but also much boredom and drinking , which may go some way to explain why so many young Greenland men are destroying themselves . |
| 20 | In particular , politicians sought to examine why so many volunteers to fight had been found to be unfit to do so . |