Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] [adv] they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clients are often totally unaware of how negatively they may be talking to themselves , anticipating failure and minimizing success . |
| 2 | This gives the assessors some idea of how quickly they must make their assessments . |
| 3 | If you need to use them , you now have a record of how much they will cost , in advance . |
| 4 | Householders will have their first indication of how much they will have to pay by late April . |
| 5 | A short ‘ idiot 's guide ’ to fundraising ( of the sort this idiot would need ) with suggestions about events and methods of fundraising ( including how much they can expect from house-to-house collecting ) , any rules they need to know , how to link with CA , how to do a bit of educating through a display or briefing meeting or a good enjoyable social occasion to launch the effort and raise the level of interest and understanding . |
| 6 | Having commented upon the gentleness and generosity of the Caribs , he immediately reflected upon their vulnerability and upon how easily they might be enslaved . |
| 7 | Whether they do depends on how easily they can adapt to the relentless street cred , visual gimmickry and ubiquitous dance rhythms generally essential to the Street-Porter school of programme-making . |
| 8 | A CONVOY of black limousines conveyed the 31 Lebanese Muslim MPs in Saudi Arabia on an extra-parliamentary pilgrimage to Mecca yesterday afternoon , leaving their 31 Christian colleagues behind in Taif to ruminate on how best they might protect Christian political power in a new Lebanon . |
| 9 | The Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp ‘ Unified Unix ’ effort is now thought to be part of a much broader set of strategic discussions that the two companies are having on how best they can collaborate on a wide range of technologies , today 's edition of our sister paper Unigram.X reports . |
| 10 | Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp 's ‘ Unified Unix ’ effort is thought to be part of a much broader set of strategic discussions the two firms are having on how best they can collaborate on a wide range of technologies . |
| 11 | Pensioners are warned to take care , but there 's a limit to how well they can protect themselves |
| 12 | There is a limit to how fast they can operate . |
| 13 | Already he was beginning to steal glances at the clock , comparing it needlessly with his own watch , missing bits of the film while he made rapid calculations as to whether he might conceivably be able to see Bridget home , and , when this had become out of the question , as to how long they would have to say good night at the hated corner . |
| 14 | ‘ Still no one is quite clear about how long they will last . |
| 15 | It is partly the recession and partly companies taking a realistic look at how much they can afford . ’ |
| 16 | In February 1929 Irwin had written to the Secretary of State of a conversation with Gandhi that ‘ what was interesting ’ was his statement that , if Indians were at liberty to order their own future , ‘ we should be astonished by how much they would desire to leave in our hands through lack of self-confidence ’ . |
| 17 | Public Choice theory argues that bureaucrats are judged by the size of the budget that they control and by how much they can increase it . |