Example sentences of "how [adv] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statistics from the Workplace Nurseries Association ( tel : 01–700 0281 ) show how badly we need more nurseries : |
| 2 | I know how badly I behaved that night ; but I was wild with jealousy . |
| 3 | Similarly , an analysis of the organisational and institutional forms adopted by the West Indians and the abolitionists reveals how strikingly they mirrored each other . |
| 4 | Naturally , we can not always choose what happens to us but , once we have reached adulthood , we can choose how much we let those happenings affect us . |
| 5 | Charity Christmas cards have become big business over the years , but it 's not always clear just how much they benefit charitable organisation . |
| 6 | I ca n't imagine people in this country putting themselves through that , no matter how much they love that person . |
| 7 | It has not disclosed how much it thought these brands were worth . |
| 8 | Their manpower requirements were planned in detail and they knew exactly when and for how long they needed additional workers . |
| 9 | How long they sat unmoving Sally-Anne never knew . |
| 10 | Yet when asked how long it takes each week to prepare and construct the next sequence , Dr Postlethwait is accustomed to laugh heartily ( as he did when I asked him ) and reply , " Oh , about fifty hours . " |
| 11 | Waiting her turn , trying not to feel overwhelmed by the noise in the bustling concourse , Chesarynth watched how long it took each person ahead of her . |
| 12 | He then watched to see how long it took another pair to occupy the two kinds of territory . |
| 13 | How long you had this thing then ? |
| 14 | Because if you 're told that it 's going to get a maximum of three minutes air time , and if the interviewer wants to ask five questions , you think there are five topics that you would like to get in , to make five points , then do a bit of mathematics , and work out how long you think each answer should be . |
| 15 | Karen limned it in , surprised at how easily she added lurid details . |
| 16 | Even if you are mouse phobe you should at least give it a try because you might be surprised at how easy it makes common operations . |
| 17 | No matter how carefully he sliced each shovelful in an arc out on the wind , there were certain unpredictable gusts that lifted the grains and blew them back towards the tractor so that by evening his clothes were filthy with lime , his face and hands as white as chalk , accentuating the inflamed red round his eyes . |
| 18 | She determined that she , not he , would decide how often they saw each other and how they would occupy their time together . |
| 19 | They will have to answer for the team 's performances and can expect to be closely questioned on how often they saw those performances . |
| 20 | Making allowances for variations in people 's familiarity with each type of credit ( judged by how often they applied any labels to each type ) , some types of credit were labelled as expensive much more than other types . |
| 21 | As well as being asked how often they commit illegal acts , respondents are generally asked details of their social characteristics , social class , race and so on , in an attempt to get round the biases in official criminal statistics . |
| 22 | How often we hear one person tell another to ‘ relax , as if it were the easiest thing in the world to do ? |
| 23 | Will he remember how often he spoke last year , and to what good effect , about welfare reform ? |
| 24 | Think how often you see two people struggling to rig or de-rig because they are too embarrassed or independent to ask someone to help . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Physiological psychology presents a range of major methodological challenges , and how well we meet these challenges affects the ease with which we can interpret the experiments that we carry out . |
| 27 | See how well we do this week . |
| 28 | A group needs time for the processes to develop to turn a number of individuals into a group , no matter how well they know each other . |
| 29 | And I heard a lot about how well it worked last time . ’ |
| 30 | I remember reading that Stevie had said how hard she found that life , living out of the back of a van , which of course you , Chris and Mick grew up with … |