Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] how far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Serbs in particular are nice judges of how far the outside world will go to stop them . |
| 2 | They would have to make political judgements on how far to reduce standards of living . |
| 3 | This raises questions of how far work on women is still relegated to the sidelines of sociological inquiry and teaching . |
| 4 | It is important to wrestle with questions of how far a belief corresponds to reality or is illusory . |
| 5 | Details of how far they walked , how long it took them , when this was done and what sort of overnight accommodation they used , would be relevant to my research . |
| 6 | Barbara Conroy , in her book on library staff development discusses evaluation in terms of how far stated objectives have been achieved , and emphasizes that although evaluation requires careful identification of what is being evaluated and why , to decide the ‘ how , when and where ’ , of evaluation if it is to be more than ‘ just a way of channelling impressionistic information into a required report form ’ , that it is not a highly ‘ esoteric ’ activity , necessarily involving ‘ complex research methodology ’ . |
| 7 | PASS ( Programme Analysis of Service Systems ; Wolfensberger and Glenn , 1973 ) evaluates services in terms of how far they comply with appearances , practices and settings which would be valued by the rest of society . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In Committee there were substantial debates about how far the effectiveness of schools could fairly be judged simply by the publication of crude raw data on their results . |
| 11 | If the formal organisation is highly centralised , there will be limits to how far a task can be restructured by an individual manager . |
| 12 | Although Zimbabwe has had some success in redressing racial inequalities , there have been limits on how far social inequalities have been checked . |
| 13 | As JAA expands , its costs will increase , but the JAA Board have put very tight limits on how far it can go . |
| 14 | Thirdly , the debates over how far to forge a strategy either for winning power or for promoting economic development in a post-revolutionary society have not been satisfactorily resolved , and indeed perhaps can not be , given that counter-revolutionary response to any successful formula will ensure that it will be that much more difficult to apply the same tactics in another situation . |
| 15 | Norman Fowler , Secretary of State for Employment , is likely to exploit the differences already emerging yesterday between right and left-wing union leaders over how far the definition should go . |
| 16 | As a social group they could record both gains and losses from war , and there has been some debate among historians about how far a balance sheet can be struck for the country as a whole , whether England gained or lost from its military operations . |
| 17 | The Minister has also made statements on the increasingly complex issues of how far a council can allocate its own costs of contract supervision to the tender submitted by an outside contractor ( Hedley 1989a:10 ) . |