Example sentences of "[vb -s] how [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One wonders how close the cost of Edward 's internment was to the £15 3s. 4½d. paid to Hugh Brice in 1471 for the cerecloth and spices used to embalm his predecessor , Henry VI . |
| 2 | The Holy Roman Emperor , the shah of Persia and the sultan in Constantinople were honoured with large sheets ( the fact that two of the three were non-European illustrates how large a role Asia still played in Russian foreign policy ) , while the kings of Sweden , Poland , England and Denmark had to be content with smaller ones . |
| 3 | Ca n't see that it matters how good a driver you are , it 's not always how good you are |
| 4 | Valerie Emblen describes how important a knowledge of the children 's mathematical background is when planning the mathematics curriculum for Bangladeshi children in London . |
| 5 | Depends how desperate the need is . |
| 6 | Well it depends how big the bathroom . |
| 7 | The idea of the individual being composed of different interpenetrating and interdependent layers or planes also emphasizes how artificial the distinction is between mental and physical illness . |
| 8 | This single example shows how powerful the ideal of collectivism can appear , as it seems to connect in a very real way with commonsense ideas , in this case about Japan as a classless society . |
| 9 | Principal environmental officer , Bernard Cribbs : ‘ We used to get lots complaints about dog packs but this year we have only had about two which shows how effective the scheme has been . ’ |
| 10 | It should be noted that Friedman 's explanation shows how misleading the metaphor of ‘ surrendering one 's judgment ’ can be . |
| 11 | Such a philosophy is wholly unacceptable and shows how stupid the tax was . |
| 12 | Apart from that , it also shows how wide a gulf had opened up between this sort of natural religion and classical Christianity . |
| 13 | Matza ( 1964 ) , whose ‘ soft determinist ’ position approximates the one under consideration , shows how arbitrary the answer to this question can be — in his case it seems to be when you have finished reading his book ! |
| 14 | ‘ It shows how shallow the council 's commitment to the environment really is . ’ |
| 15 | The failure to set up a working system for filing and recovering information shows how defective the organization of the Secretary 's office still was at the end of the Tudor period . |
| 16 | A recent oral history of schoolchildren shows how close an eye the police kept on ‘ larking about ’ . |
| 17 | This aerial shot shows how extensive the site was when Erinoids occupied it . |
| 18 | The sample list of libraries at the end shows how serious the phenomenon is and forestalls criticism of the kind I have already heard : ‘ The situation is wildly exaggerated . |
| 19 | The continued argument about transport development shows how important a part it still plays in the economy of the US . |
| 20 | This quotation from the Muslim News shows how important the distinction is , and what misinterpretation is possible if pupils are not helped sufficiently to see it : |
| 21 | Theories of maternal instinct and mother-child bonding are emotionally loaded , and constantly being reappraised ; although lack of consistency in approach brings its own problems , at least this shows how vital the issue is . |
| 22 | Investment in coastal shipping yet again reveals how local the process of capital formation in transport was . |
| 23 | This chapter looks at the rise in the secondary labour market , studies what the future trends are likely to be , and examines how limited the scope of traditional trade union action will be in countering the consequences of this job market restructuring . |
| 24 | Service spokeswoman Rosemary Sandford said : ‘ It 's a very important appeal and it reflects how popular the service has been up to now . |
| 25 | Elke says she has tried once more in vain to buy a decent pullover for Fabian and tells how unfriendly the saleswoman in the shop was . |
| 26 | Einstein identified the stress-energy tensor as the source of space–time curvature and suggested the simplest possible relationship between it and the curvature : where is a tensor describing space–time curvature and K is some scalar constant whose magnitude determines how effective the energy density is in distorting space time . |
| 27 | Generally , it 's the back-up software that determines how versatile the process is — and your willingness to follow rigid back-up routines that decides how effective it will be . |
| 28 | Very few women took part in training , which was surprising when one considers how important a part many of them played on the farm . |
| 29 | That was a huge overstatement , but it at least demonstrates how widespread the discourse of political radicalism had become . |
| 30 | As a doctor he knows how serious the disease is . |