Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] how [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er two sixths add one sixth is going to come to how many sixths would you have ? |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp is spraying statistics in all directions to try and convince the industry of NT 's success : 60,000 software development kits have been sent out , it says , 25,000 dealers and the like should be trained before the launch , and it has commitments from developers that over 500 applications will be ready by the autumn — however it absolutely refuses to comment on how many copies it expects to sell . |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp is spraying statistics in all directions to try and convince the industry of NT 's success : 60,000 software development kits have been sent out , it says , 25,000 dealers and the like should be trained before the launch , and it has commitments from developers that over 500 applications will be ready by the autumn — however it absolutely refuses to comment on how many copies it expects to sell . |
| 4 | This later proved a very good idea because the finished panel drew in , in the same way as regular cable panels and I needed to know by how much . |
| 5 | One needs to know by how much , for example , screening for breast cancer reduces mortality from the disease in order to determine whether a screening programme is worthwhile . |
| 6 | But we need to know by how much . |
| 7 | But the corporation is not ready to talk about how much the service will cost . |
| 8 | ‘ It seems that not only are you supposed to enjoy sex , but you 're supposed to talk about how much you enjoy it . |
| 9 | It is not within the scope of this chapter to reflect upon how such a combined change ( in teacher training and school organisation ) might affect the quality and style of young children 's learning . |
| 10 | So that first of all we would have to look at how much time people spend preparing invoices , sending out statements , producing age debtors lists and that sort of thing . |
| 11 | I 'm gon na have to look at how that can be done . |
| 12 | Now is the time to look at how some theories specifically address the question of development within the global system . |
| 13 | This research proposal is designed to look at how this Inquiry fits into an evolutionary model of the development of the public inquiry as a democratic and political device for analysing information and ensuring that legal interests are safeguarded , what views the various participants have of the Inquiry before , during and after it occurs , and how the Inquiry as a process handles the arguments raised by its terms of reference , from the viewpoints of fairness , fullness , thoroughness and public legitimacy . |
| 14 | The Policy and Resources Committee on Friday considered the position that included a take , a potential take of fifty thousand for this Committee , and similar reductions from other committees , but which left the funding deficit problem of six hundred and seventy one thousand , and what the Policies and Resources Committee decided was to ask the committees , all committees to look at how this six hundred and seventy one thousand gap would be funded , and that that should include committees like ourselves which had already identified and had put into the guidelines for reduction , the full five percent reduction that had been requested to be identified early in the process . |
| 15 | But this implies that the world is an entity other than God and God has given it freedom and thus the possibility of ‘ going wrong ’ , of producing evil , sin , pain and suffering , whatever explanation we may try to give of how such things have come about — at least they are only too obvious in the world we know . |
| 16 | To achieve this was a gift , and had little to do with how much he really knew . |
| 17 | is to do with in your friends and , and who , who you go around with , it 's got nothing to do with how much you 're taught about it I do n't think . |
| 18 | What constitutes , for me , a virtuous woman … a decent woman … has nothing to do with how many sexual partners she may have had , or whether or not she happens to be single or married . |
| 19 | It is obviously important to the managers of such organisations to be able to predict by how much the process will improve after particular lengths of time and numbers of products made . |
| 20 | As the 1988 Education Reform Act comes into effect , the local authorities ' share of educational expenditure is diminishing and will probably continue to diminish , though it is impossible to predict by how much . |
| 21 | The main problem was to determine after how many synodic revolutions , or reappearances of Venus as ‘ the morning star ’ , this phenomenon would recur on 1 Ahau . |
| 22 | ‘ But he never stopped to think about how much he drank . ’ |
| 23 | to be honest because erm it 's and that I wo n't say that there 's a criticism of this particular project which I supported at the time but I think that in future we do need to plan our projects and and there are people in the in the town that are prepared to work , perhaps need a bit of organizing , we need to think about how that might happen , but we must n't first reaction go to professional or semiprofessional help . |
| 24 | Doyle dreaded to think of how many mistakes were appearing on the court transcript , each time she looked up at the corner of the room , where the CI5 men sat , and found two youthful , smiling faces , fixing her with meaningful looks . |
| 25 | ‘ It seems to depend on how much credit people can afford , and at the moment it is just not enough for a new car , ’ said one high-street main dealer . |
| 26 | you can also erm maybe try and correlate things like , oh I do n't know , how frequently they came , claim to dream with how much they rate their enjoyment of dreams on average or , you know , all these kinds of things are possible |
| 27 | Inglis calculated the stress concentration factor , that is to say by how many times the stress is increased locally , not only for rectangular hatchways , but also for other openings such as round and elliptical holes . |
| 28 | Sadler said write-offs related to acquisitions during the fiscal fourth quarter to April 30 will affect fourth quarter profits but declined to say by how much . |