Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] much [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I wonder that she did n't collapse under the sheer weight of how much we needed her , of how unreasonably we all admired and needed her . |
| 2 | ( Test of how much we use our local stations ) : What are the approximate journey times by the most direct route : — |
| 3 | ( Test of how much we use our local lines . ) |
| 4 | If you need to use them , you now have a record of how much they will cost , in advance . |
| 5 | There is a range of behavioural methods which animals use to try to cope with the conditions , and again we can make measurements of how much they are having to use these . |
| 6 | Grazers have the enormous advantage that there is plenty of their favourite food available , all around them , stretching for as far as the eye can see and regrowing time and again regardless of how much they crop it . |
| 7 | Romanians are very well aware of how much they have inherited from the Ceauşescu regime and how difficult it is , with the best will in the world , to purge the moral degradation from their souls . |
| 8 | I think of what each group produced , not in terms of how far from a conclusion they were , but in terms of how much they had achieved . |
| 9 | Householders will have their first indication of how much they will have to pay by late April . |
| 10 | If I asked for money from my husband he would talk of all the expenses , of how much it cost the family to keep me . |
| 11 | Clearly the question of how much it costs to sustain at home elderly people with dementia is a very important one , but it is one which is very difficult to answer . |
| 12 | And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another . |
| 13 | And he has n't the least idea of how much it will come to . |
| 14 | The hon. Member for Sheffield , Brightside ( Mr. Blunkett ) raised the question of how much it cost to collect a tonne of rubbish in one place as opposed to another . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ she said gently , well aware of how much it meant to her . |
| 16 | I hope you were pleased with how much we sold . |
| 17 | I hope you were pleased with how much we sold . |
| 18 | ( Sorry , it 's got nothing to do with how much they love you . ) |
| 19 | Labours local Government spokesman , David Blunkett came to the transport and general workers headquarters in gloucester armed with a cheque : the sum on it , the amount labour says an average familly of two in gloucester would be better off by under their fare rates scheme , compared with how much they pay in poll tax . |
| 20 | A short ‘ idiot 's guide ’ to fundraising ( of the sort this idiot would need ) with suggestions about events and methods of fundraising ( including how much they can expect from house-to-house collecting ) , any rules they need to know , how to link with CA , how to do a bit of educating through a display or briefing meeting or a good enjoyable social occasion to launch the effort and raise the level of interest and understanding . |
| 21 | Additionally , many single people admit that they had not realised before how much they relied on their job for companionship and sometimes , even for part of their week-end social life . |
| 22 | How we buy food also has an influence on how much we eat of it at any one meal . |
| 23 | To a very large extent the way our primary schools develop in the future will be a comment on how much we have learned from the largely fruitless traditionalist v progressive debate of the '60s and '70s . |
| 24 | Lenders fell into two camps , depending on how much they fear a further drying up of already moribund mortgage demand . |
| 25 | Many of my volunteers commented on how much they enjoyed eating so much fruit and vegetables and how much fitter they felt , so I have no doubt that it is the reduction of fat and the increase in better , healthier food that together helped produce such positive benefits . |
| 26 | In fact , some of the players got as little as £10,000 , others £15,000 , others £25,000 — it depended on how much they were able to negotiate for themselves . |
| 27 | Just how much people will switch out of sterling depends on how much they think the exchange rate will depreciate . |
| 28 | Expatriates need to be briefed on how much it will cost to keep their families in the overseas location . |
| 29 | The Government 's argument is always based on how much it would cost to implement a local income tax system . |
| 30 | An overdose can happen sometimes because the quality of drugs that are produced illegally vary according to how much they have been " tampered " with to increase the profit to the dealer . |