Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [Wh adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Read on to see how well each pair measures up to makers ' claims . |
| 2 | Presently she glanced down to see how much farther she had to go — and then nearly fell the rest of the way . |
| 3 | Polly let her breath out in a whoosh of relief , looking down to check how far she still had to go . |
| 4 | You have only to think how often we suffer from aches and pains when we are miserable or depressed . |
| 5 | Interspersed with these are anecdotes from his own personal experience travelling around the remains of the country as a journalist , which makes harrowing reading , if only to note how indiscriminately trigger-happy so many people over there seem to be ( joking , for instance , about ‘ target practice ’ on a car containing a TV-film crew ) . |
| 6 | And the detailed rules of company law must be tested not just to see how well they serve the interests of shareholders , but also how well they serve the interests of society in having an efficient and productive economy . |
| 7 | I am impressed tonight to see how much we agree about the position there and on the need for much stronger action than has been taken so far . |
| 8 | As it is , there is not much she can do with her curls except , every now and again , crop them brutally short just to demonstrate how inadequately they represent her character . |
| 9 | meant it to be on Thursday ours not to reason why apparently erm Sister Josephine us , she went off by train to wherever it is she 's gone , but will be coming back with another Sister in a car tomorrow |
| 10 | And as for those millions and millions of us who chose Jesse Jackson as our candidate , we would have to be deaf , dumb and blind not to notice how much we scared the currently powerful . |
| 11 | ‘ Just to show how nice I really am . ’ |
| 12 | Probably the party would come in plain dinner dresses , just to show how far above such things they were . |
| 13 | Juliet 's friend had tried not to show how deeply she was hurt , but everyone knew . |
| 14 | Trying not to reveal how very aware of him she was , she asked with a fair degree of composure , ‘ How will we be working together ? ’ |
| 15 | She was going on to recall how yesterday she had thought of Vendelin Gajdusek 's being in Prague , when in actual fact , had she known it , he had been sitting right there beside her driving her back to Mariánské Láznë , when he suddenly gave her near heart failure by challenging , out of the blue ‘ I thought you said your name was Fabia ? ’ |
| 16 | It is easy now to understand why so many cameramen have filmed their own deaths . |
| 17 | So , having broken down our hypothesis into smaller testable parts we have now to decide how far we can hope to get with our present research project . |
| 18 | Rather , it has set out to demonstrate how seriously we take the many connections between pupil and teacher language and learning and teaching in schools , and to describe something of how staff and students proceed . |
| 19 | In a new survey on ‘ National Orchestra Provision ’ , due to be published in July , the BBC and the Arts Council have set out to assess how well this musical plenty reaches audiences and how the number of concert-goers can be increased . |
| 20 | If you want somewhere to live why not squat . |
| 21 | The Prince of Wales visits Castlebrae High tomorrow to see how more than £1.2 million of Urban Aid cash is being used to create a World of Work complex to give pupils a taste of what ‘ real ’ jobs are like . |
| 22 | Next cut out scale rectangles from a piece of card to represent the bath , shower cabinet , bidet , washbasin and loo , and using your plan , move them around to see how best to fit everything in . |
| 23 | Two examples are given here to illustrate how socially useful design could make a fuller and more creative use of new technologies . |
| 24 | With his particular ambitions , he would do well to consider how best to shorten his mortgage term . |
| 25 | The example is chosen simply to demonstrate how sadly lacking we are in the very facilities which historians require most — mechanisms of exchanging data between different processing environments . |
| 26 | ‘ So why , ’ she fired hotly , ‘ if it was n't to prove how devastatingly attractive to women you are , have you come here ? ’ |
| 27 | Erm , Right , erm , we get this thorny question now about how to establish how much somebody needs for living assurance . |
| 28 | The plan of this chapter is to review the main issues in the study of vision and then to consider how far what we have learned about the visual system can act as a model for understanding how other perceptual mechanisms work . |
| 29 | I looked round to see how far away the horse was and saw there were two galloping towards me . |
| 30 | Ask someone else to justify how much it meant to us . |