Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [Wh adv] [adv] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | That , at least is the assumption , but there have been disagreements about how well it works . |
| 2 | We need to know the costs of making the world a little safer , and we need to encourage society to make a decision about how much it values the benefits . |
| 3 | But there are doubts about how quickly it can be set up , given the party 's lack of money . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |
| 5 | If a firm is operating in a good , competitive market then , notwithstanding the problems associated with accounting measurements , profit does give an indication of how well it produced goods : the market was willing to pay more for the finished goods than it cost the firm to produce them , if the firm made a profit . |
| 6 | If " Creole " is a second dialect rather than a second language , delaying its acquisition until adolescence will still have a limiting effect on how well it can be learned . |
| 7 | That it is now required reading for the French Establishment and for anybody involved in business or education is a measure of how successfully it fulfilled its task without compromising a reputation for unbiased reporting . |
| 8 | The idea is to compare a store 's performance not just with its historical record , but with some more objective measure of how well it should be doing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Library Association is increasing efforts in parliamentary lobbying but the question of how far it wants to go in challenging the use of legislation for censorship is unclear . |
| 12 | — Try to keep a check on how often it is used and get feedback on how it went . |
| 13 | P.S. Please keep the sachet , as a reminder of how little it takes to save a child 's life . |
| 14 | Once you have decided your policy and put it in place , keep an eye on how well it 's working . |
| 15 | When the inquiry first opened , there were varying predictions about how long it would last . |
| 16 | The knowledge of how easy it would be to just reach out and take the Robe of Eyes and wear it and be able to see into other people s deepest thoughts flooded her mind , scaldingly . |
| 17 | The survival of the 1947 constitution without major change since the US occupation ended , is taken as evidence of how well it fits with the attitudes and expectations of contemporary Japan . |
| 18 | On reflection , the catering industry may well be much better off as a result of the Government 's proposals for a self-regulatory approach , but it all depends at the end of the day on how well it gets its act together , using Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment systems to identify the problem areas . |
| 19 | In the end part of there specific bequest had to be used to pay the balance of bills but there was a complaint about how long it had taken to sort out , and it taken long to sort out because it was a home made will that did n't make all the right provisions . |
| 20 | An example of how little it matters to the speechreader is the sound of TH as in : |
| 21 | Andy Probert was an example of how emotionally it does . |
| 22 | Any elicitation procedure is itself subject to a degree of variation in terms of how successfully it stimulates a child to make a particular response . |
| 23 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 24 | Smith 's application of Smelser 's model is forced to rely on an assortment of different examples and there is little sense of how well it applies to separate case studies . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As JAA expands , its costs will increase , but the JAA Board have put very tight limits on how far it can go . |
| 27 | These are not positive issues about how the economy works but normative issues about how well it works . |
| 28 | And I heard a lot about how well it worked last time . ’ |
| 29 | Naturally , the fragrant smell of wine reminded Cranston of how long it had been since he had refreshed himself so he ordered a large jug and the deepest goblet to be found in the kitchen . |
| 30 | Some have done better than others , but there 's just the physical reality of how long it takes the lower two strings to speak — it 's going to take a few milliseconds for that to happen . |