Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [Wh adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader may justly ask why this extract is so long . |
| 2 | No one must ever ask where another rabbit was and anyone who asked , " Where ? " — except in a song or a poem — must be silenced . |
| 3 | Accountants may not realize how much confusion there is amongst non-financial colleagues about basic accounting concepts . |
| 4 | Presenting a product at its true value to a consumer who does not know about the product requires more than objective information because the consumer may not know how that information relates to his or her needs . |
| 5 | Initially , your children may not know how successful World Environment Day was . |
| 6 | ‘ Let's just see how necessary love is ! ’ |
| 7 | Enlightened Glenman Let's just see how much money Glentoran ‘ grab ’ from Linfield for Cambell , a player they got for nothing . |
| 8 | Thus the carboxy-terminus domain has a definite role in pRB-mediated repression of E2 transcription which might also explain why extensive homology has been maintained among the peptide sequences of rat and two other ( human and mouse ) known RB proteins . |
| 9 | Having received identical treatment from rows of Benedict 's men on duty , I could not conceive why Old Red should be the object of so much wrath from my fellow nurses . |
| 10 | Miss Hawarth likewise procured several paying guests , moving Wilson to declare she could not imagine why any lady would wish to lodge in her poorly decorated and furnished house when they might find themselves a place a good deal more attractive and comfortable . |
| 11 | She could not see how telling Cabochon would help . |
| 12 | Vokins , in particular , could not see how this announcement was supposed to set his mind at rest . |
| 13 | It was a very slight chance , a mere wisp of straw snatched against an overwhelming disaster , for Sharpe could not see how any general , let alone a pimpled prince , could reform the broken troops of the centre and stop the French from sweeping forward to take the crossroads . |
| 14 | Mr Paleokrassas said he could not say how much money would be granted to the industry , but added it was likely to be ‘ quite substantial ’ . |
| 15 | Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is . |
| 16 | He could not hazard how much business Cetia will do from the Power Engine range because it will be go through three channels : Cetia , Thomson and IBM . |
| 17 | Graham could hardly believe how much Laidlaw had changed since he had last seen him when they were both still with Delta . |
| 18 | He had been too young to read the note but he could still remember how that table had looked when he came in , its top at the time the height of his own shoulder . |
| 19 | I had never heard Pike sing in real life , so I could n't tell how this spirit voice matched up to the real one . |
| 20 | An outstanding suggestion arose — Dogs Today would give the £60 if any Crufts committee member present could publicly justify why this magazine was not being allowed a stand at Crufts . |
| 21 | You may well imagine how this type of rumour enhanced Will Darrel in Sir Henry 's eyes . |
| 22 | Guy 's parents asked if he would live , and were told that he would , but that the doctors would not know how much brain damage he might have suffered until he came out of the coma and regained consciousness . |
| 23 | It would also discuss how general experience may be potentially seen as religious experience . |
| 24 | He would n't say how much money it had cost him to get married , but did say the money he would have made from Jamie 's maiden win would have helped in a big way . |
| 25 | So she said , yes , she said , but you would n't know where this place was . |
| 26 | And here the manuscript fragment ends , so we ca n't tell how much work lies behind such simple touches as Stepan 's fear that ‘ they ’ will flog him . |
| 27 | But Susan was saying she ca n't see how one thing 's got anything to do with the other , she did n't go joy riding |
| 28 | I ca n't see how that chain fits on him ! |
| 29 | The incoherence I think is that you ca n't ever say that anyone has lost because you do n't know what 's happening in the second and third and fourth erm batch , so I ca n't see how this system is meant to work , Mill seems to be fairly confident that it will . |
| 30 | I ca n't see how any body can justify spending two thousand pounds on , on getting a bit of fat removed some |