Example sentences of "how [det] [noun] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 She is slightly cheered by the thought of how little reward they would reap from their dishonesty if all consumers were as moderate as she .
2 I had brought three beautiful children into this world without realising just how little control I would have over the quality of their lives .
3 So if you think of pipe as how much water it can conduct .
4 Mogulof ( 1974 ) sees a dialectic in which the establishment and the change agent system determine how much participation they will allow , while the client system decides how strong is its desire or demand for participation .
5 This may help you identify visual elements which are unfamiliar to your students and would therefore make it easier to decide how much emphasis you should give to them and how you might introduce them .
6 Work out how much storage you will need for smaller pieces of equipment , serving equipment and foodstuffs : will one shelf in a cupboard be enough for tins , or do you need several ?
7 School governors in future will decide how much space they can afford to set aside to teach new generations of schoolchildren .
8 Er if I remember erm so erm , that gives you a indication of how much space you can provide , erm we 've also got some called expanded memory , expanded memory an I 'll be explaining the difference between the two .
9 He 'd had thirty five years ' experience , he was looking at th and and in his mind 's eye putting the jigsaw puzzle into the van as it were to work out how much space it would take .
10 What was more , I was 21 years old now and I had discovered just how much freedom I could have away from home !
11 The Zliten people formally offered compensation ; the Zuwaya invited them to Ajdabiya for peacemaking , and arranged a preliminary meeting of Zuwaya to discuss how much compensation they should demand .
12 It is not always possible , of course , to see how many of the homagers actually resided within the manor , nor how much land they might have held elsewhere .
13 That anything he undertook or contemplated would be a thorough piece of work , I knew ; but I do not suppose I appreciated how much preparation he would have considered necessary , including intensive readings .
14 Vets often wonder after a patient 's recovery just how much credit they might take .
15 American Express and Diners Club ( sometimes called ‘ travel and entertainment ’ cards ) an chiefly different in that you have to pay what you owe in full each month , and no formal limit is set on how much credit you can get .
16 This gives us an indication of how much money we will need to raise for the appeal .
17 And we 're gon na throw you out and then see how much money we can get for you ?
18 ‘ The groom 's family must settle how much money they will pay the bride if the marriage is a failure and ends in divorce . ’
19 They can calculate not only how much business I 'm doing but exactly how much money they will make on each piece of business .
20 I do n't like to ask how much money they will receive from the government , but the laibon tells me : seventy-five dollars , the price of two new cows .
21 Mrs Marcos does not say how much money she would turn over , or how big the Marcos fortune is .
22 This was a worry to me because I could not work out how much money I would have to live on .
23 It 's hard to decide what you can do if you do n't know how much money you can get , and it 's hard to decide what something will cost if you have n't a clear idea of what you want to do .
24 Construction of the main began in 1987 , but under government control , Thames was unable to plan ahead , never sure how much money it would receive the following year .
25 No one can say how long it will take or how much money it will cost .
26 They wanted to know how much help they would have to give the Sutton pupils .
27 You will be amazed at how much walking you will manage to do in a week : somehow the wonderful scenery seems to inspire you to keep on walking over distances that you would be hard pushed to cover back home .
28 ‘ What people do n't realise is how much distress it can cause when a horse is taken how much they become part of the family . ’
29 Certainly no one should ever know just how much distress he could cause her .
30 She says it is coming on slowly — it 's a long-term job … an awful lot of work … we never envisaged how much time we 'd spend weeding the gravel and general tidying up all the time .
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