Example sentences of "[vb base] how [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having also personally experienced the problems at Southwark Offset , I realise how daunting the prospect of trying again must have been . |
| 2 | ‘ I think the lads now definitely realise how important the situation is . |
| 3 | Erm perhaps also say how urgent a lot of people but perhaps there ought to be sort of changes in planning law er changes indeed which erm this Council has sent messages to government about erm er previously . |
| 4 | One of the first to bring global warming to international attention , Hansen says the effects of the Philippines eruption underline how sensitive the atmosphere is to small changes in heat balance and how vulnerable it is to the greenhouse effect . |
| 5 | Within the military classes , we can sometimes reconstruct family trees which reveal how wide a range of status was held by men within a single family group . |
| 6 | Political maps of the time show how complex the situation really was when Rodrigo began to exercise an influence . |
| 7 | What television can not do is convey the rise and fall of the holes and show how undulating the land is . |
| 8 | The figures are good news and show how successful the company has been in a competitive market . |
| 9 | The figures in the table below show how grim the situation was . |
| 10 | All religions show how difficult the path is to embodying their high moral ideals — they acknowledge a high failure rate , the majority do not come anywhere near achieving what they should , and the more saintly or holy within the religions see this the most clearly . |
| 11 | Indeed , the activities of the Cistercian monasteries in the twelfth century demonstrate how full the landscape was by that date , when they had to create artificially the wild , inhospitable landscape they preferred . |
| 12 | ‘ Look how tall the grass is . |
| 13 | Do n't cos I swear when it , I did that and it sounds deafening cos th look how high the recording level is . |
| 14 | ‘ You remember how shy the father of Moseh was when Hamed 's father put the proposal ? |
| 15 | I remember how quiet the house was that autumn . |
| 16 | Moreover , studies of the spectra of the stars can tell us a great deal about their real luminosities , and hence about their distances ; once you know how powerful an object really is , and compare it with its apparent brilliancy , you can work out how far away it must be , provided that due allowance is made for complicating factors such as the absorption of light by material spread thinly through space . |
| 17 | That came as no surprise to us , as we know how good the business climate in this country has been in recent years with the success of deregulation and low taxation and the attractiveness of Britain as a home of inward investment . |
| 18 | For instance , in one of the lectures we were talking about how you know how heavy an atom is , and my colleague , Mike Pendlebury , was describing how you can actually do this by weighing a crystal and counting the number of atoms in it , erm this is certainly not the traditional way , it 's a way that 's been developed over the last few years . |
| 19 | As an historian I know how valuable a commodity — and I mean valuable in terms of hard cash — it ought to be in these days when the whole of life , our own present as well as the past , seems to reach us pre-packaged in the form of interviews and telly-probe . |
| 20 | breaking away and realizing just how , you know how mucky a house is |
| 21 | I 'm sure you know how vital The Office considers this whole business . |
| 22 | But I am also a nurse and I know how vital the hospital 's research is . |
| 23 | You know how rigid the company rules are . ’ |
| 24 | Yeah , but you know how peculiar a lot of people are ! |
| 25 | Toshiba know how important the health of your unborn child is to you . |
| 26 | well , that 's a good point you see somebody who has slogged their way for a decade through messy complicated family litigation or have even represented myself in court in front of a judge in the court of session and one , and I 'm very proud of this I did this last May um I know how tough the going is |
| 27 | Thus Castro was in dire need of a Soviet commitment to preserve his revolution , and in a speech given to the United Nations on 26 September 1960 the Cuban leader may have been hinting at the price he might have been willing to pay when he said , ‘ We understand how terrible the subordination of the economy and life in general of nations to foreign economic power is . |
| 28 | After a few questions and answers swap roles , and then discuss how convincing the Christian 's answers were to the non-Christian . |
| 29 | Touches like this emphasise how meagre the rest of the fare is , and remind you of the contrary sensation , years back , when , after much prompting , you listened to Darkness on the Edge of Town and were suddenly converted . |
| 30 | It sounds like good fighting talk but , beyond the active birth arena , I wonder how accurate a picture it represents . |