Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] well [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for details of how well they had maintained their new figures or if , in fact , they had n't . |
| 2 | If the skirting is painted in a different colour to the walls , do n't forget to stick a smaller sample of the skirting colour next to the wall colour so you have an idea of how well they work together . |
| 3 | Items in the tests are not selected on the basis of how well they discriminate among students , i.e. they are not norm-referenced . |
| 4 | However , as late as 1979 a Soviet researcher wrote that no system existed for checking and analysing technical and economic information relating to product quality , and that ‘ present methods of assessing the quality of goods manufactured for export or already delivered to the foreign consumer can not provide an adequate view of how well they are produced ’ ( Gruzinov : 1979 , p. 191 ) . |
| 5 | It was a measure of how well they had done that he even considered such an awful thing . |
| 6 | Subjects were then asked to give a written rating to each of the junctions of how well they previously knew it . |
| 7 | The insularity of managers is also sharply criticised : " Businessmen have a keen sense of how well they are looking after their customers . |
| 8 | After six months , when the new employee has had a chance to settle in and learn the ropes , make a thorough and honest assessment of how well she/he is fulfilling the requirements . |
| 9 | The secret of survival and success at college can be very largely defined in terms of how well you organize your time . |
| 10 | sort of try two or three styles then sort of how well you got ta think about your headdress and that first , have n't you ? |
| 11 | The idea is to compare a store 's performance not just with its historical record , but with some more objective measure of how well it should be doing . |
| 12 | The survival of the 1947 constitution without major change since the US occupation ended , is taken as evidence of how well it fits with the attitudes and expectations of contemporary Japan . |
| 13 | If you ca n't hear me at the back because my voice drops from time to time then shout away because I 'm not always aware of how well it carries . |
| 14 | Smith 's application of Smelser 's model is forced to rely on an assortment of different examples and there is little sense of how well it applies to separate case studies . |
| 15 | If a firm is operating in a good , competitive market then , notwithstanding the problems associated with accounting measurements , profit does give an indication of how well it produced goods : the market was willing to pay more for the finished goods than it cost the firm to produce them , if the firm made a profit . |
| 16 | Clough added : ‘ He 's earned himself a contract not because of how well he has done for us , but because I think he can carry on after 32 . ’ |
| 17 | But , talk to Stevely on the subject of how well he has taught them and this most modest of men will go off at a tangent , drawing attention to the extent to which both girls have been prepared to work . |
| 18 | ‘ I felt I never got a chance there , but I have been given the chance at Norwich and I 'm very pleased with how well it has gone . ’ |
| 19 | In these sorts of circumstances , the teacher 's predominant practical concern is not with the learning experiences of individual students , but with the overall ‘ instructional flow ’ of the lesson with how well it is proceeding to its intended conclusion and maintaining order as it does so . |
| 20 | There is not , as we might have expected , a simple decline in how well it remembers as time passes . |
| 21 | The environment you choose to learn in plays a crucial role in how well you progress . |
| 22 | I was beginning to think that I would be going home fishless when I found myself singing , ‘ He shall feed his flock ’ ; and fell to musing upon how well I would be able to feed five , let alone five thousand , given the reluctance of the fish to show even a snout above the surface . |
| 23 | Earth scientists should not be quick to modify geological data to accommodate model simulations ; rather , the acceptability of climate simulations should be judged on how well they reproduce independently established geological facts . |
| 24 | The possible words in the input are given semantic scores based on how well they combine with possible neighbouring words in the input . |
| 25 | They know their survival depends on how well they impress . |
| 26 | We could only carry on like this for so long , and it all depended on how well we could sleep during the day . |
| 27 | Our personas will be more or less realistic depending on how well we can identify their prototypes , and how linguistically adept we are at mimicking them . |
| 28 | ‘ Our purpose is to satisfy customer requirements in industries as varied as , for example , oilfield services , detergents and the automotive field , and our whole future success depends on how well we can do this . |
| 29 | It is a necessity because it provides the opportunity for reflection on how well you have carried out various tasks and whether there are better ways of doing things . |
| 30 | Dear Mrs Johnson or Dear Joan ( depending on how well you know the person you are writing to ) |