Example sentences of "how [adj] a [noun] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The degree of organisation developed by both Whigs and Tories during the Exclusion Crisis was probably sufficient to allow us to describe them as parties , although opinions on this matter will vary depending upon how strong a definition of " party " one chooses to adopt . |
| 2 | The decision as to how detailed a breakdown of costs is required is crucial and should only be taken at a high level in the management structure . |
| 3 | Yeah , but you know how peculiar a lot of people are ! |
| 4 | As Gavyn Davies , who may be better known to some Opposition Members than he is to us , has said , the interesting thing is at how high a proportion of GDP investment has settled , notwithstanding the recession . |
| 5 | How faithful a rendering of the original message would it be ? |
| 6 | The increased seating capacity which would be provided by even an extra fifty coaches leaving a town over ten to twenty years , at a time of rapid urban population increase , points to how tiny a fraction of the population ever travelled by stage coach . |
| 7 | Even the thought of this plan seemed dreadful to Mildred , who could see how such a course of action was fraught with danger , but there really was no alternative if she was to help the frog-magician . |
| 8 | It does not seem to me that this can involve any impeachment , or questioning of the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament , accordingly I do not see how such a use of Hansard can possibly be thought to infringe article 9 of the Bill of Rights and I agree with my noble and learned friend 's more detailed consideration of that matter . |
| 9 | Expressed in these general terms it is easy to see how such a code of rights could be regarded as a " good thing " . |
| 10 | Evidence was put together to demonstrate just how large a proportion of Nato 's current force was actually provided by the Europeans . |
| 11 | How large a fragment of the language the system can deal with |
| 12 | Erm perhaps also say how urgent a lot of people but perhaps there ought to be sort of changes in planning law er changes indeed which erm this Council has sent messages to government about erm er previously . |
| 13 | A lot of you 'd be surprised how gullible a lot of people are and frankly a lot of shopping problems do turn out to be the shopper 's own fault . |
| 14 | The Minister will remember that in Committee , he regularly boasted about how powerful a piece of legislation the Bill was — saying that it was the most far-reaching legislation in Europe , and so on . |
| 15 | But , to repeat the question , how great a level of luck , how much of a miracle , are we allowed to postulate ? |
| 16 | One of the most important considerations to be taken into account when creating a lexicon is how full a coverage of the language it is able to provide . |
| 17 | How important a part of the Nazi popular appeal before 1933 was their anti-semitism ? |
| 18 | Valerie Emblen describes how important a knowledge of the children 's mathematical background is when planning the mathematics curriculum for Bangladeshi children in London . |
| 19 | If so you soon realise just how important a piece of kit it is . |
| 20 | The Dallams and Braithwaites and Colcloughs and the rest feeling in no way threatened by skirmishes between one resident of St Jude 's and another , yet closing ranks in a punitive fury when it concerned no matter how small a portion of their worldly goods . |
| 21 | Boswell dismisses Elgin in a couple of paragraphs , partly though boredom , partly embarrassment at Johnson 's bad meal there ; but again — the invaluable gloss on Johnson 's version — ; Boswell liked the jutting arcades , which he called ‘ piazzas ’ ; he approved of ‘ such structures in a town , on account of their conveniency in wet weather ’ , and then reports Johnson 's dislike of them on account of the way in which they made ‘ the under story of a house very dark , which greatly over-balances the conveniency , when it is considered how small a part of the year it rains . |
| 22 | Again there came to him a sense of how small a town of some eighty-five thousand people really was . |
| 23 | Now in the wake of his service there , having to cope with the vivid reminders of how worth it it was and how tragic a loss of life of Vietnamese … |
| 24 | Mr Brooke , who still has to decide on the age limit for lottery punters , would not reveal how big a portion of the cash will go to the Inland Revenue . |
| 25 | We do not know how big a slice of the cake British Coal will be able to secure . |
| 26 | We begin with a brief look at the official figures , since , whatever the shortcomings of these statistics , and no matter how distorted a picture of ‘ real ’ crime they portray , they do nevertheless have real effects , since they are used , for example , in political debate and inform , at least partially , the public 's perception of the crime problem . |
| 27 | Hence , when selecting a parser it is vital to determine how wide a variety of grammar the parser is able to process and how easily it can be extended to a larger domain . |
| 28 | Within the military classes , we can sometimes reconstruct family trees which reveal how wide a range of status was held by men within a single family group . |
| 29 | Looking at 1993 , it is easy to see how uninspired a lot of the publishing programmes are . |