Example sentences of "how [adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 First it was necessary for participants to recognise how little they understood of each others ' work , and then to begin to formulate ways of working as a team .
2 Erm , Right , erm , we get this thorny question now about how to establish how much somebody needs for living assurance .
3 Why we eat what we do and how much we eat of any particular food is a fascinating subject .
4 We realised how much we depend on each other .
5 ‘ The government does it with poll tax bills , letting us know how much we pay for those who wo n't , so why not extend it ?
6 The humble old Citroën 2CV probably never realised just how much it gave to European light aviation !
7 She was n't sure how long they stared into one another 's eyes .
8 She had no idea how long they waited like that , with Mary O'Dell wiping the sweat from her face with a cool washcloth , speaking gently in her soft Irish singsong as if Ruth were a child , for by now her memories had blurred together ; faces swam into focus through waves of pain , then disappeared .
9 We have no statistics to tell us how many children are involved , how long they spend in any one of these stages of transition , nor do we know what effect these experiences have on them or on their relationships with natural or step-parents .
10 It 's how long it takes for those to react together until they 've stopped reacting .
11 that , that 's how long it takes for half of the radioactive isotopes to disappear .
12 I wonder how long it takes to burnt alive in a blazing Tornado ?
13 The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening .
14 It 's how deeply you crawl into that dip of the eyelid and nose . ’
15 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 . ’
16 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 .
17 Yet no matter how far you progress with this , ultimately you will have serious problems with an opponent of equal skill but faster-acting muscles .
18 And see how far you go with that .
19 You may like to consider how far you agree with this view .
20 For weeks the newspapers had been full of stories about it , with , over and over again , people describing how well they lived in this country , how much they loved their homeland , how they did everything to strengthen East German socialism — as if there were not several thousand people leaving the country in a panic at the time .
21 The possible words in the input are given semantic scores based on how well they combine with possible neighbouring words in the input .
22 These indices are usually validated against utilisation rates ( see above ) or by how well they correlate with various measures of morbidity available routinely .
23 You may like to check just how well you listen by practising listening in some simple everyday situations .
24 But with the other companies that have been established , and all water companies have done the same , the way to increase profits is to go into er a business which you 're in competition with other businesses and you stand or fail as to how well you do on that .
25 It seems obvious that they are relevant but how precisely they interact with present behaviour is unclear .
26 Spokeswoman Wanda Anderson said : ‘ There is a danger that because the hospice runs so efficiently people may forget how heavily it relies on public donations and fund-raising .
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