Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [Wh adv] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Householders will have their first indication of how much they will have to pay by late April . |
| 2 | It was a measure of how well they had done that he even considered such an awful thing . |
| 3 | The extent to which they try to run towards the red compared with the yellow is taken as a measure of how strongly they have been imprinted . |
| 4 | We asked the Home Office to appear in this program , but they refused , instead they sent us a letter full of encouraging noises about how seriously they took the question of data protection . |
| 5 | A ratchet is a mechanism by which investors provide management with an incentive , in the form of equity enhanced in proportion to how well they perform . |
| 6 | ( For RSFSR legislation see p. 38273 ; Moldava 's Supreme Soviet passed a privatization law on July 4 providing for non-transferable bonds to be distributed to citizens in proportion to how long they had worked . |
| 7 | Other people tempted to rearrange borders for ethnic reasons ( Hungarians looking at western Romania , Greeks eyeing southern Albania , Russians glaring this way and that ) will have to go on making their own calculations about how much they really want that bit of the country next door , how tricky seizing it might be , and so on . |
| 8 | Items in the tests are not selected on the basis of how well they discriminate among students , i.e. they are not norm-referenced . |
| 9 | If you need to use them , you now have a record of how much they will cost , in advance . |
| 10 | Most people are likely to judge the reforms on how long they have to wait for treatment — the issue behind the ‘ Jennifer 's ear ’ controversy during the election campaign . |
| 11 | I asked for details of how well they had maintained their new figures or if , in fact , they had n't . |
| 12 | Details of how far they walked , how long it took them , when this was done and what sort of overnight accommodation they used , would be relevant to my research . |
| 13 | I think of what each group produced , not in terms of how far from a conclusion they were , but in terms of how much they had achieved . |
| 14 | PASS ( Programme Analysis of Service Systems ; Wolfensberger and Glenn , 1973 ) evaluates services in terms of how far they comply with appearances , practices and settings which would be valued by the rest of society . |
| 15 | Subjects were then asked to give a written rating to each of the junctions of how well they previously knew it . |
| 16 | Another familiar failing of which you should be aware is the subconscious tendency of some interviewers to always look for someone who is like them and therefore to judge people on how far they match up . |
| 17 | Pensioners are warned to take care , but there 's a limit to how well they can protect themselves |
| 18 | There is a limit to how fast they can operate . |
| 19 | The insularity of managers is also sharply criticised : " Businessmen have a keen sense of how well they are looking after their customers . |
| 20 | If Liz and Owen had n't had that accident , which brought us together to look after the twins , we might never have found each other again ! ’ she cried , feeling almost faint as she fell back on the pillows , hardly able to bear the thought of how narrowly they had averted a lifetime of unhappiness . |
| 21 | One or two top senior Account Executives ( SAEs ) boast to the AEs about how much they are earning , making them all feel they are onto something really good . |
| 22 | And then can you give us an account of how far they have proved accurate ? |
| 23 | It is partly the recession and partly companies taking a realistic look at how much they can afford . ’ |
| 24 | If the skirting is painted in a different colour to the walls , do n't forget to stick a smaller sample of the skirting colour next to the wall colour so you have an idea of how well they work together . |
| 25 | This gives the assessors some idea of how quickly they must make their assessments . |
| 26 | There is a range of behavioural methods which animals use to try to cope with the conditions , and again we can make measurements of how much they are having to use these . |
| 27 | However , as late as 1979 a Soviet researcher wrote that no system existed for checking and analysing technical and economic information relating to product quality , and that ‘ present methods of assessing the quality of goods manufactured for export or already delivered to the foreign consumer can not provide an adequate view of how well they are produced ’ ( Gruzinov : 1979 , p. 191 ) . |