Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adv] a [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a seller knows how much a buyer is willing to pay , then his power position is improved . |
| 2 | Part of the fever of the times ; if the Black Panther Huey Newton , posing with rifle and spear , could be written up as a theoretical genius , and his partner , Bobby Seale , interpreted as a tactical wizard , then how much a symbol was Ali — the first to tap and manifest glinting black pride , to dispute with vigour erosive self-laceration . |
| 3 | In hot weather you may not be aware of how much a horse is sweating because it evaporates so quickly . |
| 4 | By " aptitude " Carroll meant " the amount of time needed to learn a task under optimal instructional conditions ' and not its more usual connotation of how much a student is capable of learning . |
| 5 | To check how much a paragraph is inset move the cursor into that paragraph and look at the ruler line . |
| 6 | I was n't sure how long a day was on Fraxilly — and I did n't want to be wandering Rat City after dark . |
| 7 | And also of course , a , a , a problem that you ca n't solve is , you never know in advance how long a conversation 's going to be . |
| 8 | And when you finished your training erm that was , how long a training was it in fact ? |
| 9 | Yes a hard disk does make a great deal of difference to how easy a machine is to use . |
| 10 | We also know how deeply a person is committed to certain intellectual concepts . |
| 11 | If this is what fluent readers do , then there is surely a sense in which an expert is a slightly unreliable judge of how clearly a book is written . |
| 12 | First , the boards and the Committee for Science and Technology had the problem of deciding ‘ how far a subject was ‘ degree worthy ’ , because new subjects started springing up like grass in a corn field ’ : |
| 13 | At such a time , when attitudes were changing but no effective consensus had emerged , it was not surprising that Truman should see in Churchill 's forthcoming speech at Fulton ( Missouri ) an opportunity to discover how far a sea-change was taking place in American opinion . |
| 14 | Moreover , measures such as the Gini coefficient treat inequalities at different points in the income distribution as equivalent , whereas many development economists have argued that the goal of economic aid should be to meet the basic needs of all the citizens in any country ; this usually involves focusing on how well a society is doing by its poorest members . |
| 15 | Helping governors and parents to see how well a school is doing and explaining or defending the school has now taken on another dimension : comparisons with other schools leads to one set of questions while the extent to which the school is organized in accordance with the national curriculum and within the national framework of pupil assessment leads to different , inward-looking enquiries . |
| 16 | Shindler will carry out an environmental compliance audit , to establish how well a company is complying with existing legislation . |
| 17 | This on its own , however , does not show how well a company is doing relative to its rivals . |
| 18 | A national curriculum , they add , will allow children to move schools without utterly disrupting their education ; and objective assessment will enable both teachers and parents to see how well a child is doing . |
| 19 | Your article on British education reforms ( April 10th ) says that objective assessment ‘ allows both teachers and parents to see how well a child is doing ’ . |
| 20 | The mean percentage correct cloze score ( i.e. , the percentage of deleted words correctly replaced by the reader ) appeared to give an indication of how well a passage was understood . |
| 21 | Appraisal attempts to improve performance by determining regularly how well a job is being done . |
| 22 | Paul Byrne is sheer quality but it does n't matter how well a team are playing if they do n't have someone to put the ball in the net . ’ |
| 23 | The proposal would rank them according to liquidity ( how regularly a stock is traded ) and turnover . |
| 24 | The three colour laser Doppler Anemometer measures in three dimensions how fast a fluid is travelling past a given point . |
| 25 | It was shown on page 195 that knowing how frequently a record is accessed can lead to reduced seek times . |
| 26 | For all but a few types the LOB corpus alone is too small a source from which to reliably derive information about how likely a word is to belong to a particular grammatical category ( many words in the LOB occur just once ) . |
| 27 | The law recognizes , through various defence doctrines and through the instruction to prosecutorial authorities to refrain from prosecution in certain cases where formally a person is guilty , that disobedience to law is sometimes justified . |
| 28 | It is always a help to know when precisely a contract is concluded , for example , and of possible legal liabilities against which it is advisable to insure . |