Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh adv] much [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Let us bear in mind how much they must have suffered to achieve such beauty .
2 She would make Hari Morgan interested in her scheme for an emporium however much it cost her in lost pride for in .
3 ‘ I found out the following day how much it was worth when a dealer offered me £40,000 . ’
4 They did not know at the beginning of the week how much they would bring home at the end .
5 When Lewis moved his teaching from Oxford to Cambridge in 1954 , for the last nine years of his life , the drama of that confrontation was somewhat intensified , and it was not always noticed in the heat of debate how much they shared .
6 Whatever you decide , you 'll be suitably bowled over by the excellent quality however much you 're paying .
7 Please accept my sincere condolences at your family 's sad loss , I know from personal experience how much it hurts to lose one so close .
8 No matter how much we do in developing our own media projects in this continent and around the world , we will still only be one small voice in the vast ocean of communication media .
9 I did n't understand Jamie ; he was half the size I was , half the weight or less , and no matter how much we drank together he never seemed to be affected .
10 No matter how much they eat of their current food , they just ca n't get enough energy from it .
11 Once they had established that all men were equal before God and that all men were theoretically capable of finding out , for themselves , what God demanded of them , they could not confine that principle to the religious sphere , no matter how much they may have wanted to .
12 Up until the 1950s , it was difficult for any human beings who suffered from an allergic response to cats to become cat owners , no matter how much they longed to share their lives with a feline companion .
13 I ca n't imagine people in this country putting themselves through that , no matter how much they love that person .
14 This is perhaps the most fundamental principle of sign systems : no matter how much they are able to draw from a sign language they attempt to match their production to the spoken language which is produced simultaneously .
15 Further opposition came from those who , no matter how much they might desire British association with their ambitions , saw a free trade area as a retrograde step , and feared its adverse effect upon the ultimate goal of political unity .
16 But these are n't word processors , no matter how much they 'd like you to think so .
17 It is this : that collective force should be trained against individuals only when some past political decision has licensed this explicit in such a way that competent lawyers and judges will all agree about what that decision was , no matter how much they disagree about morality and politics .
18 No matter how much they fine everybody , they 're never going to recover the cost of these operations .
19 Eventually , no matter how much you and even neighbours clear , there will be big colonies of rabbits left unculled .
20 No matter how much you learn in theory , you should always rely on what your ear is telling you .
21 No matter how much you have to offer , the body is between .
22 Because no matter how much you warn them , they 'll probably find out about wasps the hard way .
23 ‘ When you hear them chanting ‘ What a waste of money ’ you ca n't close your ears to it , no matter how much you try .
24 Dr ‘ Patterson ’ … patients here are very much consultant oriented , and no matter how much you may feel you 're on the right lines for treatment , they do expect to go along and see a consultant .
25 No matter how much you 've got , you use it all .
26 She had learned to time it so as not to hear the tail end of the terrible Neighbours music which , no matter how much you hated it , was a tune you could easily get on the brain .
27 No matter how much you might want to .
28 These two lines will never meet , no matter how much you extend them in either direction .
29 I 've just come to see what there is , part of the interest is to see the great bad taste of Robert Maxwell , no matter how much you spend of your own money or other people 's it ca n't buy you taste
30 Most players like to have some relief but they know with him that no matter how much he is hurting he will go on . ’
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