Example sentences of "ask [Wh adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to this , we can best assess the intrinsic value of something if we ask how good or bad a thing it would be if it existed in complete isolation . |
| 2 | So , if you ask how many more shipwrecks there are out there , ready for the eager auctioneers , the answer is plenty — but very few have any undamaged treasure on board . |
| 3 | I ask how many of them have ever seen a train . |
| 4 | When buying an air purifier , measure the room and ask how many air changes the model would achieve . |
| 5 | Please ask how long it is likely to take . |
| 6 | There 's an old woman with thick glasses and a name tag who 's serving the hot drinks so I go over to her and ask how much money I got . |
| 7 | If you put money in a bank or building society some years ago , ask how much interest it is now earning . |
| 8 | Before you invest in a country , ask how much the country has invested in itself . |
| 9 | It is a useful exercise to look in detail at a particular school with which one is familiar and ask how much of current practice would have to change for the policies listed to be implemented . |
| 10 | Some people ask how much coal will be dug or how many pits will be open by the year 2000 . |
| 11 | ask how much I owe is it , because I what 's all this in there ? |
| 12 | We 've got ten game and ask how much profit their making on something |
| 13 | ask how much they are . |
| 14 | However , if you ask how much energy would damming up the River Severn to make a tidal energy scheme how much energy how much energy would that contribute , then it would probably only contribute three gigawatts the equivalent . |
| 15 | I am also concerned that after this debate there will be no winners not even the fox , for it will be killed it will be killed in some way or another and the feelings that are left between the two differing sides will harbour grudges and resentment for many months to come and I 'd like to also bearing in mind the comments that were made by Councillor ask how committed the people who have proposed this mo motion are against barbaric sport . |
| 16 | In looking at figures on television audiences we probably accept with little thought that certain programmes are frequently at the top of the list for audience rating , but we seldom ask how that audience has been measured . |
| 17 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 18 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 19 | You ask how interested we are , we 're interested . |
| 20 | If we ask why many of our towns and cities are laid out as they are we find the answer is buried in history . |
| 21 | The coordinating committee suggests that the appeal panel ask why this change has been made , and when Upjohn proposes to inform doctors of the change . |
| 22 | It might be cos they ask where all the stuff is and we have n't got it . |
| 23 | If we ask where that power comes from , the answer is broadly that Parliament claimed it and the courts recognised it . |