Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever possible the firm should avoid having to approve investment advertisements leaving this task to other advisers . |
| 2 | Evidently in positing a given object as an ontological individual I am at the same time committed to accepting that contextually there must be certain criteria whereby such an individual can be meaningfully referred to as numerically the same . |
| 3 | If a transaction is contemplated whereby such an obligation will be triggered the person in question must first ensure that he can and will continue to be able to implement such an offer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No matter how logical or even how emotional the communication may be , the barrier prevents any unifying of perceptions . |
| 6 | He never realized how grateful a man could be for the chance to wash . |
| 7 | In private most managers worry intensely about how corrosive the change will be . |
| 8 | Knowing that large crowds mean a large number of losses , I 'm sure you can also imagine how rich the ground must be at certain spots on Harrogate 's common . |
| 9 | To calculate how strong a material ought to be we need to make use of the concept of energy . |
| 10 | Trees can be useful indicators of wind variation with height , and the way in which leaves are turned , particularly on the lower branches , shows clearly how turbulent the air can be . |
| 11 | How like the Llyn Peninsula Strumble Head looks from the air , and how awful the nightmare would be , should it suffer a similar fate . |
| 12 | how tall a hare can run , how easily ; |
| 13 | André and I are both fluent , but I 've seen how disadvantaged an outsider can be without any knowledge of the language . ’ |
| 14 | How strange the place must look , to him . |
| 15 | How does the bird manage to identify part of the scene as a fish , or as food , in the first place , and how is it thereupon led to take appropriate action ( that is , how does it know that it should dive , irrespective of how steep the dive should be ) ? |
| 16 | The difficulty arises partly in differentiating between what the user needs to know about the workings of the system , i.e. , how transparent the system should be so that the task can be performed effectively and efficiently . |
| 17 | You edit each line separately , once you 've set up how high the banner will be , and have no control over how long the banner will stretch . |
| 18 | Malekith himself remarked that there was no telling how high the corruption might reach . |
| 19 | How different the picture might be if you had the protection of the Midland Personal Accident Plan . |
| 20 | How different the world may have been if long ago those missionaries who set out to convert the world to belief in an all-providing benevolent ‘ god ’ , had themselves been aware that the human race , sooner or later , would have to control its rate of procreation , for the world can never provide for unlimited human life . |
| 21 | The flatness is a shame , because this is a public service : you can glean from the programme an idea both of how irrational the law can be , and of how flimsy most people 's understanding of it is . |
| 22 | The draft law unveiled on May 11th is a step in the right direction , but the small print raises questions about just how autonomous the bank would really be ( see page 112 ) . |
| 23 | They got another example of how dangerous the Headmistress could be on the very next day . |
| 24 | Mr Kirwan , the managing director of Davset Construction and Building , which is based on The Esplanade , said last night : ‘ It 's time people realised how dangerous the sea can be . |
| 25 | But vets say the public is unaware of just how dangerous the virus can be . |
| 26 | The police had realised how serious the incident could be , and managed to find Robert before he was physically harmed . |
| 27 | As a junior nurse new to the surgical ward you are in a good position to understand how uncomfortable a person can feel in a strange place with unfamiliar people . |
| 28 | The rules on how such a capitalization would affect the level of benefit would be tightly drawn in the sense that if , for example , a person capitalized £1,000 of their state pension , their pension , when paid , would be reduced by the amount of £1,000 worth of contributions . |
| 29 | However , how such a judgement can be made is controversial . |
| 30 | To understand how such a discount can persist we have to consider the value of a trust 's shares from a buyer 's point of view . |