Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adv] they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | how effectively they plead for nothing . |
| 2 | The offices faced out on to the wolf enclosure and as he looked at the pack huddled by the iron fence in the snow he thought how right they looked for once . |
| 3 | Realising how little they knew about the subject , she and two staff midwives from Wythenshawe began to research the needs of deaf women during pregnancy . |
| 4 | First it was necessary for participants to recognise how little they understood of each others ' work , and then to begin to formulate ways of working as a team . |
| 5 | Additionally , many single people admit that they had not realised before how much they relied on their job for companionship and sometimes , even for part of their week-end social life . |
| 6 | No matter how much they eat of their current food , they just ca n't get enough energy from it . |
| 7 | For example , in a survey I carried out on the membership of the National Trust — one of the largest voluntary associations in Britain with over a million and a quarter members — it was decided that topics should include such things as how people came to join , how they felt about the payment of subscriptions , how much they read of the literature the Trust sent them , what their main interests in conservation were , how active a part they wanted to play in the work of the Trust , and so on . |
| 8 | In one key experiment , for example , we trained over a hundred birds , measuring their imprinting preference score and motor activity ( that is , how much they ran in the wheels ) as well as RNA synthesis . |
| 9 | To set incentives and to monitor their impact requires reliable measures of what waste is produced and where : the next article examines how far countries agree on what counts as waste , and how much they know about its origins and destiny . |
| 10 | I wonder how much they know about their parents and grandparents . |
| 11 | The Dos Quiz is a useful way for beginners to find out just how much they know after reading all the MS-DOS bibles . |
| 12 | ‘ Find out how much they charge for water . |
| 13 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |
| 14 | Charles Davenant observed in 1710 , " what near Resemblance there was between the Old Rumper , and the Modern Whig ( for a Child will be like his true Father ) and how much they agreed in their Insolence to the Throne , Notions in Religion , Principles as to Government " . |
| 15 | For example storytime might take place at an established time towards the end of the school day , but in a follow-up session the next day questions could be asked to see how much they remember of the story , or one child could be asked to retell the story they heard yesterday ( see Boxes 4 and 5 ) . |
| 16 | With push and pull toys the children experience weight in a very practical way when deciding what and how much they put into a pram or trolley to push . |
| 17 | Not being musically inclined , I had no idea how much they meant to him , and I 've subsequently spent about 3 weeks in the dog house . |
| 18 | Yet , when they were asked how they felt about their sister , each one of them paid tribute to her gentleness and femininity and said how much they cared for her . |
| 19 | Nobody knew how much they burrowed into one 's past , and this ignorance coupled with a fear of being rejected by the Legion was enough to make most people tell the truth . |
| 20 | At the IX Party Congress that year , both Ion Maurer and Alexandru Bârladeanu emphasized in their speeches to the delegates how much they owed to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's inspiration . |
| 21 | How far they were supreme in any new and unprecedented sense , whether their advance can be termed revolutionary , how much they owed to the innovatory genius of Thomas Cromwell are questions still open to dispute . |
| 22 | The Ashleys fully appreciated how much they owed to Sybille and treated her with great respect and kindness ; faux pas , which from other members of staff would have met with icy reproofs , went scarcely noticed . |
| 23 | But none of the regional clubs will quantify how much they earn from the lucrative Clubcall telephone commentaries . |
| 24 | On the one hand , Labour Members know where their roots are and they know how much they matter to them desperately . |
| 25 | But it depends how much they want to . |
| 26 | The foundations of interviewing lie in the mundane observation that individuals can report on what they feel , are , have , tell others about their lives , disclose what their hopes and fears are , offer their opinions , state what they believe in , say what they did last week , how much they spend on food , who they see regularly , and so on ; in short , they can impart masses of information about themselves . |
| 27 | It is this : that collective force should be trained against individuals only when some past political decision has licensed this explicit in such a way that competent lawyers and judges will all agree about what that decision was , no matter how much they disagree about morality and politics . |
| 28 | How much they need to be overcome to implement a successful international marketing policy is a matter of considerable debate among marketing experts and section 5 of this chapter reviews the idea of the two main schools of thought . |
| 29 | A survey asked 1,245 randomly selected college professors how much they gave to charity each year . |
| 30 | Apart from demonstrating one of the unwavering laws of British journalism , that nothing sells newspapers like royalty , and nothing makes a better editorial column than declamations of simple patriotism , the curious thing about these assaults is how much they belong to a period . |