Example sentences of "[to-vb] how [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that licence you have to indicate when you 're going to have erm this market , you have to indicate how many stalls , how many people you expect to attract , the times you 're gon na be open and you have to give a months notice . |
| 2 | In many current studies , it is the state which is abstracted as the complementary prime mover in the development or new collective forms or consumption ( e.g. Castells 1977 ) , and largely functionalist arguments are derived to indicate how any changes which appear to have occurred can always be found to have accorded with the ‘ interests ’ of these two forces , capital and the state , which are usually in harmony as ‘ state monopoly capitalism ’ and always in direct conflict with the interests of the population as a whole . |
| 3 | In describing reading as an information-processing skill it is necessary to identify the sources of information and the cognitive processes applied to that information , and to indicate how these sources and processes vary as the skill develops . |
| 4 | A list of the different types of special classification schemes may help to indicate how these schemes may be designed for a variety of different purposes : |
| 5 | ( c ) Construction of partnership agreements The following general rules apply : ( 1 ) The agreement will not be presumed to be exhaustive so as to disallow evidence of actual practices of the partnership said to be inconsistent with the written terms or alleged to indicate how those terms should be construed . |
| 6 | It aims to establish how many women are choosing this method of birth and what practices are in place in different hospitals . |
| 7 | A comparison of the two texts is sometimes enough to establish how many copies of the new edition should be bought , and whether the previous edition should be retained or discarded — though it is a time-consuming process . |
| 8 | To establish how many suppliers exist the data must be extracted from each component file and correlated . |
| 9 | The Norwegian whaling fleet has already set sail to study stock sizes and to establish how many fish minke whales eat , and in May will begin commercial catches for the first time since 1987 . |
| 10 | The criteria most commonly used to establish how many people we should have in a sample are such characteristics as age , gender , marital status and socio-economic status , although various other criteria may be used as appropriate . |
| 11 | Once the tasks which are particularly sensitive to the effects of even one night 's loss of sleep had been identified , it became feasible to attempt to establish how little sleep is enough to prevent any of the effects of sleep loss . |
| 12 | In order to discover how such inferences are made , we will need firstly to examine the range of possible functions of language , and secondly to try to understand how people correctly interpret them . |
| 13 | In order to discover how such inferences are made , we will need firstly to examine the range of possible functions of language , and secondly to try to understand how people correctly interpret them . |
| 14 | The families of thousands of workers at a key atomic research plant are to be surveyed to discover how many children have suffered from cancer . |
| 15 | Hence the cars , the holiday trips , the barbecues , the pets — I remember in 1959 being amazed to discover how many people in the suburbs of Washington were keeping pet chimpanzees ! |
| 16 | This highlighted the need for the regeneration of the Essex manufacturing base , and a series of seminars are now to be held to discover how many people have workable ideas waiting to be put into practice . |
| 17 | Once again a single victory had given the English king the illusion of conquest in Scotland , but , like his grandfather Edward I , he was soon to discover how little support there really was in Scotland for his settlement . |
| 18 | Consequently , you can not reliably use EXT#-1 to discover how much space is left in the current filing system device ( : RAM.0 , for example ) . |
| 19 | Researchers also wanted to discover how much viewers ' attitudes are affected by the context in which a sexy scene turns up on the home screen — and the timing . |
| 20 | The Plastics Waste Management Institute ( PWMI ) of the Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe recently set out to discover how much plastic is consumer in Europe and where it ends up . |
| 21 | We must now wait to discover how much Maynard relishes the captain 's job , coming to him much earlier than he can have imagined , and whether — as in the case of Morris back in 1989 — it affects his form and composure . |
| 22 | It is almost always difficult to discover how these men built their fortunes at the beginning , because they leave no significant mark in the records until they have already made some mark in society . |
| 23 | I was also surprised to discover how few booksellers there were in Torquay , or if they were here their voices seemed strangely muted . |
| 24 | A marked difference between the sexes in the structure or presence of such glands indicates that some aspects of sexuality are communicated by aromatic means but , as always , one would need access to an individual bat 's mind to know how such messages are interpreted and what behaviour results . |
| 25 | Like I said , I want to know how many murderers have been sent to Whitely in the last three years . |
| 26 | If the private sector is to contribute seriously to debt counselling then it is likely to want to know how many CAB clients adhere to their repayment schedules and how many emerge better able to cope and more confident after counselling . |
| 27 | The company wished to know how many kibbles every workman " doth weekly land " , what charges had been incurred by building at Coniston and what repairs might be needed to uphold the works . |
| 28 | This can be disconcerting for clients who want to know how many spots they are getting . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , I want to know how many steps there are to the top . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm sorry Mr has referred to closures in their teens cos this again throws residents and staff into total confusion we 're too early in the programme of community care to know how many homes are going to close . |