Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project will analyse the following of selected great magnates : six English earldoms and one contemporary Norman county , to see what exactly was the chronology of the change ; what sorts of men followed great magnates at what dates ; and to discover how precisely the change happened . |
| 2 | B. When people want to know how well the whole of British industry is doing , they use the success or failure of ICI ( Imperial Chemical Industries ) as a guide , since its products are used by most other firms . |
| 3 | Volunteers are naturally eager to know how well the event has done so it 's best that the cash is totalled before they leave then either banked straight away or placed in the safe keeping of the headteacher or the deputy until the bank opens on the following day . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) It is difficult to know how far the success of the project should be attributed to the project itself and how far it should be attributed to those events which preceded it and provided an environment in which the project could flourish ( or wither ) . |
| 5 | She did not dare to look over the edge : she did n't want to know how far the water had risen . |
| 6 | The vendor will also be concerned to know how quickly the cash will be returned to it by the purchaser . |
| 7 | She had an embarrassed recollection of having burst into tears , of demanding to know how long the affair with Henrietta had been going on . |
| 8 | The day finished with some drama and Mass and I was sadly surprised to find how quickly the day had gone . |
| 9 | The aim is to find how far the reader is using positive strategies , exemplified by certain types of miscue . |
| 10 | It was not the only time Poindexter had to shut North up : partly because North genuinely did not know how widely the secret was known , but partly because he could hardly resist it anyway . |
| 11 | Because one did not know how accurately the clock had been ticking during the processes of weighing , one could not know precisely the times at which the movements of the shutter occurred between which the radiation was released . |
| 12 | I do n't know how far the club can go but we have to try and find out . |
| 13 | I 'm floating up — and up — and up — I do n't know how far the roof is , I do n't know when my head will crash against the rock and my brains 'll get bashed in and I 'll be dead . ’ |
| 14 | You do know how hard the work is , I hope ? ’ |
| 15 | Does n't know how long the work 's gon na stay there . |
| 16 | But I do n't know how long the quarantine period is . |
| 17 | ‘ And moreover , could I know how long the prince would stay here ? |
| 18 | Now , we do n't know how long the interview went on , it 's quite likely we have only a snippet of the conversation . |
| 19 | I DO N'T KNOW how long the Curtiss P-40 has been my son 's favourite aircraft and I often wondered why . |
| 20 | ‘ Being here in perpetual safety we forget how hard the world is outside and how strong and determined we must be if ever we want to live in it again . |
| 21 | This team research project will provide an analysis of the policy process in six EC member states ( three in each of Southern and Northern Europe ) and also in the EC institutions for understanding how exactly the creation of the SEM will affect and be affected by environmental policy considerations . |
| 22 | Er to an application with nature a and I I wondered if the , if this gentleman regular planning er could describe how exactly the responsibility for all this application er which splits down between ourselves er inspector of pollution and indeed the Secretary of State . |
| 23 | She felt a deep flush of embarrassment crawl up her neck as she gauged how far the sound of her and Mandy 's conversation might have carried . |
| 24 | In the later stages of cooling however both the inside and the outside behave elastically and thus their contractions get out of step . |
| 25 | Police driver describes how fast the car is going , how it 's driving on pavements . |
| 26 | There are at least three kinds of validity : construct validity which refers to the degree to which the test seems to be based on psychological theory , content validity which describes how well the test measures what it is intended to measure and criterion validity which indicates its value as a predictor using as criteria other measures of relevant performance . |
| 27 | Having decided how long the intervention is to last , ask the parents to run it for that time and then immediately return to the baseline condition . |
| 28 | They reveal how well the candidate performs in the company of a group of quite senior people . |
| 29 | Investigations of public law on taxation and social security reveal how internally the family is constituted by legal structures external to it . |
| 30 | His former employer will quite clearly not benefit from this conduct and the courts are concerned with defining how far the employer can restrict such competition . |