Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] how [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relation to ( e ) , the Consortium needs to know how many IDO claims have already been validated and how many are outstanding that could be affected by the outcome of the Carmel case . |
| 2 | If a stepping motor is used to change the position of a mechanical load by several steps the system designer needs to know how much torque the motor can produce whilst accelerating , decelerating or running at constant speed . |
| 3 | At four o'clock each evening the team at the Grid Control Centre has to assess how much gas the entire region will use the following day . |
| 4 | Society has to decide how much risk-taking it wishes to encourage and to allow a proper return to risk-taking as an economic cost against accounting profits . |
| 5 | The American one has to decide how many members of Congress each state should have . |
| 6 | ( I , 817 — 18 ) Sartre arrives at what he calls ‘ the real problem of History ’ , that is how there can be totalization without a totalizer , only at the very end of Volume I. It is not until the next volume , however , that he intends to show how individual actions , separate multiplicities , make up ‘ one human history , with one truth and one intelligibility ’ ( I , 69 ) . |
| 7 | The study aims to see how far problems of these areas are caused by inadequate transport facilities . |
| 8 | It aims to establish how many women are choosing this method of birth and what practices are in place in different hospitals . |
| 9 | This research aims to investigate how such factors shape the way this key group of employees are responding to their labour market situation and the career opportunities provided for them within high technology firms . |
| 10 | The proposed rules will require the non-weapons powers to disclose how much uranium they buy . |
| 11 | Artificial Intelligence tries to understand how this knowledge and language interact , and to reproduce the process in computers . |
| 12 | An approach which tries to formulate how such knowledge is brought into play is speech act theory . |
| 13 | This project , which is a continuation in some respects of work conducted in 1981-2 , seeks to evaluate how this change in policy originated , how it has affected crime rates and penal policy in other respects , to what extent the policy is now being modified , and the implications for sentencing and imprisonment in Britain . |
| 14 | Referring to the Braer disaster in Shetland , Capt Sclater said : ‘ This could well have been a tanker and it goes to show how vulnerable Orkney is . ’ |
| 15 | That just goes to show how much people judge each other on how they look . |
| 16 | He did n't believe me when I told him about you , which just goes to show how much people judge by outward appearances . |
| 17 | Mike Teague says he was amazed at how many people turned out to watch … and it just goes to show how much Gloucester people enjoy their rugby … he says his comeback is going well but there 's a lot of pressure to keep winning and England want is a third grand slam … |
| 18 | ( The reader who fails to see how any system of entities in which the laws unc both fail can have any practical value has only to recall the familiar 3-dimensional vector calculus , denoting vector multiplication . |
| 19 | In particular , it attempts to assess how rational decision-makers will act in certain situations : ‘ It takes the tools of economics and applies them to the material of politics . |
| 20 | In view of the complexity of the psycholinguistic abilities which contribute to normal language functioning , it is perhaps not surprising that attempts to explain how these abilities emerge in the first place and are orchestrated into the unified process which we recognise as language have met with only limited success . |