Example sentences of "[adv] how [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot had heard often enough how careless talk costs lives , how even walls have ears . |
| 2 | It unzips , producing two separate strands which can then be copied , and this is basically how genetic information is passed on . |
| 3 | So how far back does responsibility for the massacre go ? |
| 4 | We have seen already how Local Authority power has changed in the last fifteen years , and how as a part of these changes , the Education Committees have become more and more political . |
| 5 | ‘ We need to know exactly how Welsh Water 's long sea outfall off Kinmel Bay will influence pollution off our coast over the next 30 years , and we need to know that before they build their sewage works , ’ she added . |
| 6 | There is some debate about exactly how flexible bonus payments have been and some argue that in recent years bonuses and basic wages have followed similar trends . |
| 7 | But exactly how viral protein synthesis is selectively inhibited , leaving cellular protein synthesis relatively unaffected , is still not clear . |
| 8 | The situation can be modelled in an idealized game of ‘ hawks ’ and ‘ doves ’ , which illustrates exactly how natural selection can drive a population to an ‘ evolutionarily stable strategy ’ in which fighting is restrained . |
| 9 | We still do n't know exactly how natural selection began on Earth |
| 10 | What it is difficult for those from the West fully to grasp , is just how surreal life under state socialism has been , especially in the early fifties when the system reached a kind of apogee of dementia . |
| 11 | This was developed further during a deployment in the field to practise battle procedures and enable the battalion to see just how mobile Warrior is . |
| 12 | To achieve that they must understand exactly just how forensic rhetoric and persuasive reasoning work , while their own ratiocination is free from irrational imperfections . |
| 13 | ‘ The main thing I remember is just how deadly quiet the whole stadium went when I was tackled . |
| 14 | The exhibition at the Houses of Parliament is intended to show MPs just how violent pornography has become . |
| 15 | The examples from the Questor data management system were designed to demonstrate just how simple computing can be if users take advantage of the powerful software that is available . |
| 16 | Just how small can apple trees get ? |
| 17 | However much you may have heard , without actually going there , it is difficult to appreciate just how far rugby is woven into the warp and woof of South African society . |
| 18 | Time and its buried hoard , however , had only been waiting in the wings , and it was now that the priest was discovering just how perfidious Time could be . |
| 19 | The only way to find out just how fantastic Medau is , is to try out as many of the other movement forms as you can . |
| 20 | Goodness knows , I 've never liked the woman — but I 'd no idea just how awful living in her house would turn out to be . |
| 21 | Honestly , Laura , you 've absolutely no idea just how expensive property is here in New York . |
| 22 | Accountants Coopers & Lybrand yesterday spelled out just how inflationary Labour 's tax plans could be if employers try to preserve their top staff 's living standards . |
| 23 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , it is easy to underestimate just how complex behaviour has to be before attributions of attitude and meaning pass methodological muster . |
| 25 | Top chef , Anton Mosimann , knows just how good bread is — his bread and butter pudding is delicious , as are our innovative snacks , using varied cosmopolitan breads . |
| 26 | Something I should have mentioned earlier is just how good gold prospecting is as a family hobby . |
| 27 | While Arrested Development 's current album shows just how good rap can be , You Got ta Believe ( Atlantic ) by Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch shows all the traits that so richly deserve ridicule . |
| 28 | Encouraged by the fact that the Germans , and the Scandinavians , have more money to spend than anyone else bar the Japanese , there are moves afoot to show them just how good lamb really is . |
| 29 | Jubilant reaction from the purity camp showed just how central legislation had now become to their programme . |
| 30 | But then I found out just how hard life could really be . |