Example sentences of "how far [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choose a scene where much of this is conveyed visually and see how far everyone agrees in their interpretation of what they see . |
| 2 | In the next chapter we consider morbidity patterns in later life and consider how far they reflect the patterns described by mortality data . |
| 3 | What part the laity could play in the Church and how far they felt alienated is for discussion later . |
| 4 | Otherwise they hated him , though there are degrees of honesty as to how far they admit it . ’ |
| 5 | All trainee managers follow the same route ; how fast and how far they develop depends entirely on their individual performance . |
| 6 | How far they progress depends on many factors , but they will not progress unless given a chance . |
| 7 | It must also have provided opportunities for men to meet regularly to discuss politics , and such discussions , and the attitude of those in the shires in times of crisis , may often have centred on how far they thought the king and his officials were living up to what was expected of them . |
| 8 | Commissioners to make the new perambulations were appointed — for example in Somerset , Dorset , Devon and in Rutland , but it is doubtful how far they proceeded : no perambulation had been made in Devon by November 13 18 , and fresh commissioners were appointed to perambulate the Devon and Nottinghamshire forests before Whitsun 1319 . |
| 9 | He had little idea as to how far they had come and had lost count of how many times they had fallen . |
| 10 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 11 | How far they had been successful was , however , another matter entirely : the main effect of Schweitzer 's brilliant study was in fact to put an end to that quest , at least in its most widely popular form . |
| 12 | Floy glanced over his shoulder , trying to gauge how far they had come and in which direction the road now lay . |
| 13 | He wondered if they had been primed to talk to him , and how far they had been told they could go . |
| 14 | It was clearly a spot height — in fact there was a small stone to mark it , but it was almost hidden in rough grass and gorse , and Maggie really did n't want to know how far they had climbed . |
| 15 | She did n't know how far they had come from Gloucester , but surely after an hour at a steady gallop they had put enough distance between themselves and the castle to halt for a few minutes . |
| 16 | when he went in mum started crying she said Lyn he ai n't coming back he ai n't coming back I said he might mum , he 's just might so anyway that was , at one o'clock he went down , quarter past five , ring , we kept saying can you ring and see if , and they rung said be out the operating theatre to tell us how far they 'd got and what was happening , he 's had four units of blood |
| 17 | As Mr Frohnmayer writes : ‘ Few , it seems , are willing to take on those who cloak themselves in the mantle of religion , no matter how far they stray from religious doctrine or behaviour . ’ |
| 18 | Just how far they influence policy outcomes is contentious , but the level of consultation is reinforced by the regular recruitment to private companies of bureaucrats who retire early from public office . |
| 19 | All multi-divisional companies face dilemmas and choices on the extent to which they seek to centralise or decentralise their operations and how far they try to fit their industrial relations into their strategic plans and organisational structure . |
| 20 | Another familiar failing of which you should be aware is the subconscious tendency of some interviewers to always look for someone who is like them and therefore to judge people on how far they match up . |
| 21 | The very incongruency between moral and tale in these ( and other ) cases can draw the reader to reconsider the moral " sentence " of both those parts of the fabliaux : initially , possibly , to see if or how far they match one another , but ultimately in respect of their own nature — to see how the narrative tale of humanity implies human baseness , while explicit human moralizing fails to match the height , or depth , of that depravity . |
| 22 | And displacement , how far they 've got from the start line ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | From this position nothing would be assumed a priori about the meaning of our study texts ( how far they qualified as racist , for example ) until their actual conditions of existence had been exhaustively examined . |
| 25 | Ministers will clash over how far they intend to pay for capital spending projects by freezing the pay of public sector workers like teachers , nurses and doctors , or limiting rises to two per cent . |
| 26 | In the questionnaire , a large number of teachers are asked how far they agree or disagree with the statements . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It seemed , as inspiration ; his darts , how far they flew , a great idea to Rubberneck . |
| 29 | Our mission is to find out how far they have advanced and in Which direction they are heading . |
| 30 | And then can you give us an account of how far they have proved accurate ? |