Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [det] [noun pl] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fielding notes how some constables subsume these negotiating skills under the category of ‘ talk ’ , which gives meaning to their complaint that many younger policemen seem no longer to know how to talk to members of the public ( 1988b : 60 ; also see Holdaway 1983 : 90 ; Southgate 1982 : 11–12 ) . |
| 2 | This sign of friendliness tells you how much neighbours enjoy each other 's company . |
| 3 | Yet we have little detailed knowledge of how individual farm businesses and their associated patterns of occupancy are changing or how these changes influence those farm management decisions that lead to alterations to the agricultural landscape . |
| 4 | how many times has this happened to you ? |
| 5 | How many times have these affairs been genuine ? |
| 6 | How many faces does each cuboid have ? |
| 7 | For example , if a local authority has a duty to cause streets in its area to be ‘ sufficiently lit ’ , how many lights does this require it to install ? |
| 8 | How many letters has that carp one got ? |
| 9 | How many lives has that have you , saved ? |
| 10 | A chef would never leave a kitchen with food out on the worktops at the end of the day , and front desk is always tidied at the end of a shift , but how many managers do more than simply turn off the computer and go home at the end of a session with their spreadsheet or word processor ? |
| 11 | One wonders how many firms believe this requirement has actually operated , for no urban initiative has ever been the subject of so much formal and informal evaluation . |
| 12 | I , I 'm not really interested how many ounces of tying wire are used in the base of er , a thing , but I , they , they do have another one which groups some of these together and er will give me labour plant materials , and it 's surprising how many contractors have this same breakdown er , from er , contractors might have materials and temporary materials er er , sub-contract erm what else are we likely to have ? |
| 13 | How many families kept these keys ? |
| 14 | How many turns has this one ? |
| 15 | And the question is , How many legs have that lot got ? |
| 16 | Erm ah here 's an interesting one , How many legs have these got ? |
| 17 | How many legs have these got ? |
| 18 | How many words does that write |
| 19 | How many pieces to go all the way round . |
| 20 | ‘ How many men has this been tried on so far ? ’ |
| 21 | But actually , just look , turning the page , it tells you activity and production , right , how many days worked this year , forty days , how many weeks , eight days , and all the rest , and then if you see we can get this is based on your data , that you 're feeding into the computer every week , and there 's absolutely no purpose in putting false data in . |
| 22 | It passes a tearoom and a craft shop that confirm the emancipation of the valley from the pre-car days when few travellers came this way . |
| 23 | More urban patients attended a hospital based diabetic clinic and this may be one reason why such patients had less unrecognised retinopathy , although hospital attendance is not always welcomed or thought necessary by patients . |
| 24 | And this involves having a demonstrative understanding of the causes why these things have these properties . |
| 25 | In tracing the influence of psychodynamic theory , Payne offers a three part periodic table consisting of the following elements : prior to 1920 when these theories had little influence ( pre-influence ) ; a period of dominance between the 1930s and 1960s ; from the 1960s to the present when they form one of many alternatives . |
| 26 | ShareLink , which claims to be Europe 's largest share dealing service , is open seven days a week : 8.30am to 6pm on weekdays , and 10am to 4pm at weekends , when many clients have more time to think about their investments . |
| 27 | And that weakness was further underlined last Sunday when enough chances to win several matches were squandered against Limerick . |