Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adj] and [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we all know , no matter how slick and glossy a campaign , it will never sell the unsellable . |
| 2 | I could see how clear and pure the water was , how full with fish . |
| 3 | And the mother may castigate the daughter for her unruly behaviour , at the same time betraying a sly triumph when she relates how uncontrollable and wilful the girl is . |
| 4 | Alejandro was so staggered by Fantasma 's progress that he decided to waive his prejudice against greys ; not so much that he was prepared to get on her back , but he spent a considerable time wondering how he could flog Fantasma to a rich patron without them finding out how vicious and unmanageable the mare could be when she was away from Luke . |
| 5 | How sad and desolate the cottage seemed now : empty — like a heart with no one to love . |
| 6 | Dr Neil wanted to tell her to be careful , that she really had little idea of how hard and cruel the world was outside the privileged fastness in which she had previously lived , but he contented himself with saying instead , ‘ Have a good time , McAllister . |
| 7 | It would give me a chance to see your wrist plaster has dried correctly and give our students a rare opportunity to see how fit and active a lady of your age can be . ’ |
| 8 | Now that the Commission has turned down the unanimous decision of the Catering Sub-Committee to invite the London food commission to give advice on how healthy and nutritious the food in the Members ' and Strangers ' Cafeterias is , what will the Leader of the House do to improve the situation ? |
| 9 | A good starting point is to think of how closed and impenetrable a school 's affairs , particularly its curriculum , appear to governors and to visualise the report as a series of entry points . |
| 10 | This was the first of many hints by which the reader would come to understand , before Rassendyll himself , how deep and important the difference in character was by contrast with the ‘ striking , salient , wonderful ’ physical likeness . |
| 11 | Just thinking it over , you will see how deep and positive an influence this can be . |
| 12 | Replicators that happen to have what it takes to get replicated would come to predominate in the world , no matter how long and indirect the chain of causal links by which they influence their probability of being replicated . |
| 13 | An appreciation of these complexities will indicate how involved and unexplored the phenomenon of deixis really is and how the philosophical approaches to indexicals can handle only a small proportion of these problems . |
| 14 | The image of royalty gives us an idea just how powerful and proud the train is as it seems to influence and belittle all the things around it . |
| 15 | We all know how beautiful and soft a sheepskin rug can be . |
| 16 | The wearing of breathing apparatus , although necessary , was known to be risky ; the trapped men were not accustomed to the equipment and anyone who has used it knows how alarming and claustrophobic the experience can be ; the effect can be a compelling desire to rip off the apparatus and if one of the trapped miners was to do so while passing through the gas in Bank mine , death would be almost instantaneous . |
| 17 | Reading over the literature of that period it is remarkable just how crude and ethnocentric the thinking behind the literacy campaigns and education programmes were . |
| 18 | However , he did n't have time now for self-reproach , nor to wonder why Isabel 's seeming betrayal had cut so deeply that he had instantly thought the worst of her , had immediately accepted Matilda 's word though he 'd known how vindictive and spiteful the woman could be . |
| 19 | You can appreciate by the remarks my agent made to me on the telephone ( words which I swear I have not amended or distorted in any way at all ) just how big and unpleasant a problem I have sitting like a gibbering troll on my innocent shoulders . |
| 20 | As work continues it becomes more and more obvious how difficult and complex a task this is . |
| 21 | No matter how new and safe the wiring in a home , there is always the danger of injury and electrocution . |
| 22 | Hon. Members , including some Conservative Members , have said how divisive and unfair the poll tax was , how difficult it was to collect , with the result that 7 million court summonses are outstanding , and how expensive it was to administer . |
| 23 | It has to be remembered just how perilous and unprecedented the operation was . |
| 24 | The smooth-talking soothsayer is played by Ron Moody : ‘ Doing the voice-over made me realise just how intelligent and satirical the writing is . |
| 25 | Now is a good moment to emphasize that however friendly and informal the interviewer is being you should not fall into the trap of overfamiliarity . |
| 26 | bring into active play all the possible forces , schools and clubs , etc. , to neutralise and overcome the pernicious influences of ‘ blind alley ’ employment , to insure that , however uneducative and useless a juvenile 's job may be from the point of view of the future , he shall not on that account emerge from it unfitted for any other kind of labour . |
| 27 | And although I knew by then that I was wretchedly unhappy in comparison with other girls of my age , this was still what I wanted to do , because however joyless and painful the present might be , the future could have been even worse . |
| 28 | So that every American president is a sort of half breed , a cross between Daniel Boone and Jesus Christ and that however corrupt and venal a politician he might have been before , once he assumes the White House it is assumed that he changes . |
| 29 | However complex and sophisticated the process of mediation , however differentiated and fluctuating the reality of class stratification , Nizan is ultimately unequivocal on this particular point . |
| 30 | On any footing , it must , in my judgment , be too broad a proposition to suggest that an owner who retains a piece of land with a view to its utilisation for a specific purpose in the future can never be treated as dispossessed , however firm and obvious the intention and however drastic the act of dispossession of the person seeking to dispossess him may be . |