Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] how [det] " in BNC.

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1 Just this fat bloke going on about how much he does n't know . ’
2 My grandma kept saying horrible things about my mother and my father kept rambling on about how much he missed her .
3 They 're always going on about how much Shrimpy gets other people involved and ca n't stick up for himself are n't they ?
4 If somebody keeps on going abo on about how much they love you , if somebody keeps on going on about they care for you and how much they 'd like you to enjoy yourself and er all that kind of thing and you subsequently feel hurt , upset , abused and need to go to casualty , that 's probably a lot more difficult to understand because it does n't fit the script .
5 I could go on about how many different sounds you can muster from Marshall 's new baby , but there are just so many that this would be unrealistic .
6 Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure , That 's that 's Colin goes on to say , because you shall be like him does not mean that you are to care little about how much of him can be seen in your life .
7 We can only say a little about how that story ended .
8 As we have seen , for example , the raw fact that an admission to care takes place as a result of a care order made by the court , and thus appears in official statistics as further evidence of compulsion , may tell us little about how this action is experienced either by the child or by his or her family .
9 But they do not tell us much about how more complex cognitive processes take place .
10 More or less about how much we spend .
11 Count along for how many ?
12 A similar point is made now in the context of assemblies : " When a man came to the assembly from one of the regions , the king was concerned to ask him what news he had brought with him that ought to be reported and discussed , and he would be strictly required before he next returned to the palace to make exhaustive enquiries outside as well as within the realm , getting information from outsiders as well as from his own people , and from enemies as well as from friends , without concerning himself overmuch about how any person questioned had come by his information . "
13 This can ( and occasionally did ) lead to a situation in which a linguist claims that the ‘ data ’ he is using illustrates acceptable linguistic strings because he says it does , as a result of personal introspection , and regardless of how many voices arise in disagreement .
14 If a millionaire has a mentally handicapped child , services for such children in his or her home town may be superb , regardless of how many such children there are in that town .
15 I mean servicing a school regardless of how many people there are is no no but it
16 The results of the second ballot will be binding , regardless of how many parents vote in it . )
17 So we ca n't decide , as regardless of how many times they claim , we ca n't say , enough 's enough , we 're not gon na honour the contract any more .
18 Should n't the over-riding aim of conservation be the saving of natural species and ecosystems , regardless of how much unnatural management this may entail ?
19 Given that almost three-quarters of lone mothers are on income support this means that for the majority income will not change , regardless of how much maintenance is collected .
20 Recovery is therefore possible through the Anonymous Fellowship for anyone who wants it , regardless of how much has been lost or damaged , short of physical damage to the brain itself .
21 Regardless of how much ongoing that way .
22 Host countries are interested not only in how many jobs are created for how long at what cost , but also what kinds of jobs , are created .
23 Whether such attachments are possible will depend very much on how much help and support he or she has received whilst going through the process of loss ( which we will be looking at later ) .
24 Any answer to this question depends very much on how many workers can realistically expect permanent employment and in what sense pay is related to age .
25 According to former Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup player Paul McGinley , who obtained his European Tour Card last year , it does n't just come down to how much natural ability a player has .
26 In terms of the cohort model this means that the size of a cohort at any given moment will depend not only on how much of a current word has been analysed , but also on information from the preceding context .
27 It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too .
28 It 's not worth How much is it to go I 'm just thinking of the differe the cost of advertising
29 They judge a man for what he is , not for how much money he has or the amount of land he possesses . ’
30 She says the crucial issue is not in how many cases was she right or wrong , but are doctors allowed to raise a cause for concern ?
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