Example sentences of "[prep] how [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what you 're doing is making assumptions about the population from which your samples were drawn , so therefore this is known as a parametric technique Nearly there Now , another interpretation of Pearson 's R , or the correlation coefficient generally , is variants If you square the correlation coefficient it equally the proportion of variants in X accounted for by Y. Now that is actually a very good measure of how good a correlation is . |
| 2 | Probably the only person really aware of how good a job has been done is the selector and the selector 's line manager . |
| 3 | Again there came to him a sense of how small a town of some eighty-five thousand people really was . |
| 4 | That is not so much a sign that molecular biology is a young person 's game , but rather a proof of how great a magnet for young people 's enthusiasm the structure of DNA has proved to be . |
| 5 | And she carried on with the arrangement she was making , cheerfully unaware of how great a change in attitude that charitable thought represented . |
| 6 | Assessment of how successful an event has been depends largely on feedback , and , if possible , the organisers should get together afterwards to hear comments and take note for future reference . |
| 7 | ( It is not possible , regardless of how complex a model is used , to analyse all of the text perfectly ) . |
| 8 | If , conversely , one used educational and type-of-occupation criteria to classify individuals ( and these are highly relevant to the question of how standard a speaker 's language is ) , it is probable that many wives , especially those of working-class men , would come out above their husbands . |
| 9 | He might have listened to complaints of how stifling an aunt could be when one wanted to wander around London alone , or how one got sick in Venice or Paris , but he could only touch an elbow with mock sympathy or pat a sea-sprayed hand . |
| 10 | The selection of letters that are similar to what was written are retrieved with an indication of how close a match was obtained . |
| 11 | Alkalinity is not a measure of how alkaline a solution is , it is therefore a stupid name |
| 12 | This chapter uses the first measure to give an outline indication of how big a part credit , overall , plays in consumer spending , and how that has changed over time . |
| 13 | As we have seen , the establishment of a habit can create a situation where a horse refuses to think — irrespective of how intelligent a horse may be , and even if solving the problem is in the horse 's own interests . |
| 14 | But the detective superintendent was only too aware of how double-edged a weapon irony could be when deployed against a bunch of journalists . |
| 15 | By studying the number of occurrences of cohesive ties and their locations , one can begin to gain an indication of how well-formed a text is . |
| 16 | Chapter 9 will be devoted almost entirely to the general question of how active a role should be ascribed to consumers in understanding the meaning of goods in social relations today , and the nature of goods as material culture . |
| 17 | Glucose is the body 's principal fuel , so its use is a good index of how active an area is . |
| 18 | Someone once said that a sign of how civilized a society was is shown in how they treated their old people . |
| 19 | If Mr Makepeace was a study in how much inhumanity a man could bear , Mr McWhirter was a study in how non-human a man could become . |
| 20 | More particularly difficulty is related to questions which are not direct readings , but have to be interpreted ( however little ) or data which need to be processed ( no matter in how minor a way ) ( Table 4.9 ) . |
| 21 | The degree of organisation developed by both Whigs and Tories during the Exclusion Crisis was probably sufficient to allow us to describe them as parties , although opinions on this matter will vary depending upon how strong a definition of " party " one chooses to adopt . |
| 22 | He found , not really surprisingly , that the exchange rate is different , depending upon how starved a bat is . |
| 23 | It might destroy part of the ozone layer , which would permit the sun 's ultra-violet radiation either to tan us or fry us , depending upon how large a hole had been blasted in the stratosphere : it might equally well cause the onset of a nuclear winter , which is so popular a topic among both scientists and laymen these days . |
| 24 | ‘ The future of the capercaillie will depend on how good a habitat we provide for them in our new forests , ’ he said . |
| 25 | But a lot depends on how good a job Claris does when it comes to adding the final gloss . |
| 26 | In a way they 're the best pop group for years because — bereft of youthful , lithe hormone appeal or sculptured cheekbones — they stand or fall totally on how good a pop group they are . |
| 27 | So the best answer we can give to our question depends on how high a particle energy we have at our disposal , because this determines on how small a length scale we can look . |
| 28 | Neither case is an authority on how serious a discrepancy or inaccuracy has to be for a challenge on the ground of mistake to succeed . |
| 29 | Much now depends on how active a role the US is prepared to play to chivvy Israel along to respond to the Egyptian proposals . |
| 30 | But whether genes for hierarchical supposition would confer a sharp selective edge on language learners carrying them depends very much on how satisfactory an account of language acquisition is to be had from a suitably sophisticated ( non-behaviourist ) learning theory . |