Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [Wh adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But development is going on apace and many new houses appear where once stood fields and open spaces . |
| 2 | Making the most of a walk-on role at the start of the campaign , Margaret Thatcher made many Tory candidates realise how much they missed her strong presence on the political stage . |
| 3 | The stories of Blake and the various defectors show how easily the intelligence fraternity fools itself . |
| 4 | Instead of getting worked up about who is or is n't in the Queen 's Honours List why not demand the scrapping of a far more cynical honours system University Honorary Degrees . |
| 5 | Veteran Whitney observers wonder how long it will be before the millionaires on the Whitney board of trustees tire of this trend . |
| 6 | Colour codes show how far each cab is from each pole . |
| 7 | Mr Milburn said : ‘ These figures show how long a patient waits before he even gets on the official waiting list . ’ |
| 8 | Figures show how much we 've grown |
| 9 | Mr. Scrivener points out that , in the days of capital punishment , it was the practice for the Home Secretary personally to decide whether to recommend a reprieve ; and political memoirs record how seriously that responsibility was regarded . |
| 10 | However , it is a move fraught with problems as our writers explain How long can it be taken as read ? |
| 11 | Calls in America and Britain for further cuts in interest rates underline how easy it would be to repeat the mistake . |
| 12 | Beethoven 's sketchbooks reveal how often his first visionary ideas were modified — chopping and changing until at last they fall into shapes of full significance . |
| 13 | Dinner had been cleared from the dining room , which looked self-conscious and redundant , as dining rooms do when not in use . |
| 14 | Whilst scholars debate how far economic changes have been responsible for breaking up these traditional arrangements , there is evidence that the idea persists that this form of joint household is an ideal which people would put into practice if they could ( Benedict , 1976 ) . |
| 15 | My players know how hard it will be and they are ready for the challenge . ’ |
| 16 | Complicated though this can be , nevertheless when firm-minded heads , firm-minded teaching staff and firm-minded governors learn how far to go , where to negotiate and when to stop negotiating the ground for curriculum debate and subject planning itself becomes more certain . |
| 17 | It could be some months yet before the pensioners know how much they 'll get , and when they 'll get it . |
| 18 | We can now add that controlling ensures that the travellers know how well they are progressing along the route , how correct their map is , and what deviations , if any , they need to make to stay on course . |
| 19 | Incidentally , these examples illustrate how quickly textbooks date and the above three questions illustrate that mathematics which attempts to be relevant can quickly become ridiculous . |
| 20 | Sometimes the inside ones depend how carefully the the ones on top |
| 21 | His surviving private journals show how closely connected were his religious sense and his anxiety over his sexual nature . |
| 22 | Some names will occur naturally in the narrative and I can only hope that the others know how highly their contribution , co-operation and companionship were valued . |
| 23 | These privileged pejoratives show how firmly entrenched most rockcrit is within the tradition of Anglo-American literary criticism , with its values of proportion , symmetry , restraint , economy . |
| 24 | The softer stones of ancient cathedrals show how deeply it may cut ; and the rock from which the Sphinx was carved may have first been roughly shaped by desert winds , for the general outline follows precisely the aerodynamic flow of air over obstacles , swirling away at the end to leave a mass for the head ; and there are many rocks of similar form elsewhere . |
| 25 | The rhyme 's historical references demonstrate how completely blackness and Britishness have been made into mutually exclusive categories , incompatible identities . |