Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [Wh adv] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That , at least is the assumption , but there have been disagreements about how well it works . |
| 2 | But there are doubts about how quickly it can be set up , given the party 's lack of money . |
| 3 | ‘ It never did , Fernando ; not for one second did I have any doubts of how deeply I felt for you , only doubts of how deeply you had felt for me . |
| 4 | ‘ It never did , Fernando ; not for one second did I have any doubts of how deeply I felt for you , only doubts of how deeply you had felt for me . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As you construct your argument , you will be obliged to make judgements about how firmly you are committed to each of its ideas , and how strong the evidence is for believing them . |
| 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 | When the inquiry first opened , there were varying predictions about how long it would last . |
| 9 | So much so that she was able to quieten any last lingering niggles about how easily she 'd folded by telling herself that tomorrow she would , most definitely , go out on her own . |
| 10 | Lastly , two in the ‘ helpful-humorous ’ category : Laurie Graham 's The British Abroad , A Survival Guide ( Chatto & Windus , £8.99 ( with pithy observations on how badly we travel and how much better we could ; and Table Talk ( Coronet , £3.99 ) Derek Nimmo 's soufflé of after-dinner stories for winers and diners : pass the port , enjoy the anecdotes — and have a very happy Christmas . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I asked for details of how well they had maintained their new figures or if , in fact , they had n't . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The secret of survival and success at college can be very largely defined in terms of how well you organize your time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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. |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Subjects were then asked to give a written rating to each of the junctions of how well they previously knew it . |
| 20 | It is important , too , to set clear limits to how long you can continue caring if the health of the elderly person is likely to deteriorate seriously . |
| 21 | As JAA expands , its costs will increase , but the JAA Board have put very tight limits on how far it can go . |
| 22 | These are not positive issues about how the economy works but normative issues about how well it works . |
| 23 | Don and Steven made the most accurate estimates of how long it would take Courtaulds InterSpray , the Group 's entry in the race , to reach Rio de Janeiro from Southampton on the first leg . |
| 24 | Fourteen weeks ' full maternity pay for everyone and an end to the confusing restrictions on how long you have to work for the same company to qualify for your job back are just two of the expected improvements . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | While Naomi reads a fat paperback in the parked taxi outside , the psychotherapist ( Mitteleuropean Earth Mother , in a book-lined Hampstead house that smells of the world 's best coffee ) poses questions on everything from Rainbow 's grief at her parents ' early deaths to how often she was scolded in primary school . |