Example sentences of "how far [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was with this thought in mind that Sir Walter Ralegh wrote ‘ The Nimph 's Reply to the Shepheard ’ , showing just how far he considers Marlowe 's poem to be pure escapism . |
| 2 | The winger 's dramatically improved form has been a key factor in Norwich 's surprise success and Fox believes that a visit to Manchester United , which also sees the return of £800,000 striker Mark Robins to Old Trafford , will provide the perfect stage to show how far he has progressed . |
| 3 | How far he has come since the days in Harry Fischer 's office above the tobacconist 's , with the cosy office jokes and the lunch time beers in the pub ! |
| 4 | Of course , no creative scientist holds rigidly to a fixed position in the light of new evidence , and only Kandel himself can say how far he has now moved beyond such earlier , campaigning reductionism . |
| 5 | ‘ We do n't know how far he has to go , but you can be sure others will be back for the horses . |
| 6 | Well i I 'm not aware of how far he has taken anything on board , what I would expect as a Member of Parliament and the House of Commons , and as the leader of a party in the House of Commons , I would expect that he would want to hear what I would have to say face to face , and tell me face to face what 's wrong with what I have said . |
| 7 | With each passing second he is becoming more painfully conscious of quite how far he has been dragged from the track of normal professional propriety . |
| 8 | Then they turn against him and show how far he has been deluded . |
| 9 | Up here is how far he 's travelled in hundreds of miles say . |
| 10 | But say the figure had been erm fo he 's travelling at forty eight point three miles an hour , and you want to know how far he 's gone after twenty seven minutes or something , it 's a bit more awkward then so it 'd be easier to look it up on a graph . |
| 11 | And then you just put the numbers in for different hours into the equation into the formula that tells you how far he 's gone , work it out . |
| 12 | It is up to him to ascertain how far he wishes to travel and by what route . |
| 13 | But such an explanation is surely ridiculous to the modern reader forced to realize how far he stands from an age when mythological explanations were permissible . |
| 14 | I take it that is a special bearing , I know she 's had people look at it , I 'm gon na try and suss out how far she 's got down that line as to having another source but I do n't think she has . |
| 15 | Firstly , on how far it flies and secondly on its aesthetic value . |
| 16 | If my mother wants me off the Project , she can damn well go through channels and see how far it gets her . ’ |
| 17 | All right , lad , we will act stupid and see how far it takes us . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll see how far it takes you when you watch him try to clear the gatehouse the way he charged through a whole company of men that day , sword flashing right and left , trying to get to the King . |
| 19 | A solicitor of an undischarged bankrupt who receives after-acquired property on behalf of his client and transfers it to another agent , even with knowledge that that agent has been instructed to sell , is not liable for conversion at the suit of the trustee in bankruptcy , for the solicitor 's act can be described as ministerial within the test laid down by Blackburn J. Unfortunately , as Blackburn J. himself admitted , it is doubtful how far it goes . |
| 20 | No , cos it 's , you just watch somebody smack a ball as hard as they can with the one wood and see how far it goes . |
| 21 | It has not been found how far it penetrates and strange folklore has grown up around it , Here is an exciting expedition for somebody and one wonders what would be revealed by an examination of midden waste . |
| 22 | They therefore look to social stratification to see how far it meets these functional prerequisites . |
| 23 | The extent to which accounting information enters into the consideration of relevance and how far it meets these constraints , is determined by an additional concept : materiality . |
| 24 | The rest of this paper will look at the care programme approach in practice , to judge how far it meets , or can meet , its goals . |
| 25 | The problem now , of course , is to determine just how far it extends . |
| 26 | Local Management of Schools must be judged on how far it enables the whole education service to respond to the needs of all pupils in the locality . |
| 27 | Further experiments will be carried out to determine the underlying reasons for this kind of confusion and how far it occurs in everyday life situations . |
| 28 | Because of the pressure of space , I can not enter into the arguments about whether Buddhism is a theistic religion , and how far it has moved away from its Hindu parent religion . |
| 29 | So I did record it again ; let's see how far it has gone this time ! |
| 30 | I need to see this action as one step — even if we lose it will perhaps serve to show the nation how far it has fallen , that it no longer is concerned that such things happen in its midst . |