Example sentences of "[vb -s] how [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One wonders how long the old church can survive . |
| 2 | Well it depends how quickly the poor peasants can achieve more efficiency how quickly they can do that . |
| 3 | Mr. Hearn shows how even the very beasts whom we despise as unreasoning and unremembering are filled with an inarticulate sense of this dark backward and abysm of time … |
| 4 | But the history of mid-century educational reform or the public health movement shows how partially the sanitary principle was actually enacted . |
| 5 | This is still fairly uncommon towards the millenium , to the point of never happening , which shows how far the great game has come . |
| 6 | It asks how far the jobless attempt to maintain traditional roles , whether by legal or illegal means , and looks at the different sources of pressure and aid found in this village . |
| 7 | God knows how long the poor bastard has been lying there . |
| 8 | The rarity of finds of natural occurrences suggests how intensively the prehistoric Europeans must have sought rare substances and how much trouble they were prepared to go to in disseminating them . |