Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] [adv] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS now not just a question of how long can John Major survive , but whether the Tory Government can stay its term . |
| 2 | If you if you say something like how far would you of got , if I had n't of called you back |
| 3 | I hesitated , but in the end I told him : ‘ She said something about how else could she get the location out of him ? ’ |
| 4 | About how long would each of these two journeys to the frontier take by car , at about 60 k.p.h. ? |
| 5 | If a man drinks 6 pints of beer in fairly rapid succession , about how long will it take to clear all the alcohol from his body ? a. 6 hours b. 9 hours c. 11 hours d. 13 hours |
| 6 | If it is accepted that we are in possession of logically adequate criteria of particular-identification , I do not see how one could deny that such criteria are ever fulfilled ; for how else would we know that they are indeed adequate ? |
| 7 | ‘ Not to worry , ’ said the nurse , but I did , for how else could they find the polyps ? |
| 8 | Even if a non-verbal visual form of representation is not in the form of an implicit picture or image — and there must be non-verbal representations of a non-visual kind , for how else could we recognise the sound of a car door or the smell of supper ? — there is a wealth of experimental evidence ( Bower , 1970 ; Nelson and Brooks , 1973 ) to support the notion of two separate coding systems , verbal and non-verbal . |
| 9 | After a while , the villagers suspected that their priest must have stumbled across some sort of treasure , for how else could the funding of his good works be explained ? |
| 10 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 11 | For how long would Rachaela have to go on sharing her life with this being ? |
| 12 | So we come back around the circle to the capital side of the balance of payments , and the operationally interesting question : for how long can we expect the world 's savers to make up our domestic shortage ? |
| 13 | For how long can Mrs Thatcher continue to recognise China 's present position , in spite of martial law in Lhasa and a series of brutal attacks on peaceful demonstrations by Chinese troops , in that HMG recognises the Chinese occupation of Tibet ? |
| 14 | For how long can the right hon. Gentleman guarantee the existence of a 15 Para based in Glasgow ? |
| 15 | And for how long could France be kept isolated ? |
| 16 | The question was , for how long could such a policy of inactivity be allowed to continue ? |
| 17 | If the use of a drug seemed appropriate , what dose should be used , and for how long should it be continued ? |
| 18 | Where and for how long should you keep them ? |
| 19 | What he wants to know Daphne is , for how long should he wait ? |
| 20 | For where else would a hellish mind go after death , than to a continued experience of its own hellish thoughts and dreams ? |
| 21 | And his sister ( she caught him ; Rubberneck had returned — for where else could he go ? ) had starved him — not , locked up in the room , a bite to eat nor drop to drink — in , she saw , a righteous punishment . |