Example sentences of "how [adj] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never realized how grateful a man could be for the chance to wash . |
| 2 | To calculate how strong a material ought to be we need to make use of the concept of energy . |
| 3 | how tall a hare can run , how easily ; |
| 4 | As a junior nurse new to the surgical ward you are in a good position to understand how uncomfortable a person can feel in a strange place with unfamiliar people . |
| 5 | The rules on how such a capitalization would affect the level of benefit would be tightly drawn in the sense that if , for example , a person capitalized £1,000 of their state pension , their pension , when paid , would be reduced by the amount of £1,000 worth of contributions . |
| 6 | However , how such a judgement can be made is controversial . |
| 7 | To understand how such a discount can persist we have to consider the value of a trust 's shares from a buyer 's point of view . |
| 8 | As for the unlikely event that the hon. Gentleman sketched , he may wish to test that policy with members of the SNP to find out precisely how such a system would work . |
| 9 | It had to be established how such a system would work , and virtually all the present members had qualified by Institute examinations for practical and theoretical experience , and were unlikely to allow those to be admitted who had not passed these examinations . |
| 10 | The Group did not look in detail at how such a scheme might be privately financed , and an Anglo-French banking study was commissioned to examine the issues . |
| 11 | If I might turn briefly to see how such a scheme might possibly work . |
| 12 | If one remembers that golf is the preferred pastime of a Grand Prix racer , one can see how such a tendency can escalate — check trousers , floppy hats and fringed white shoes |
| 13 | It is fairly easy to see how such a notion might give the behaviour of randomly decaying atoms . |
| 14 | Yet , unless a real emergency should occur , it was difficult to see how such a government might be brought about . |
| 15 | Thus , despite widespread support for a National Government , there was little idea of how such a government might be brought about ; and little support for it among those who really mattered . |
| 16 | For is this not how such a story should begin , with the cliché of the poor and disenfranchised of the earth , huddling for warmth just a few feet away from champagne-swilling plutocrats glorying in their ascendancy ? |
| 17 | We should ask how such a structure would work . |
| 18 | The delicate painting of the rose petals invites one to almost smell the fragrance ; how such a painting can be described as a still life is beyond me . |
| 19 | The delicate painting of the rose petals invites one to almost smell the fragrance ; how such a painting can be described as a still life is beyond me . |
| 20 | Today , of course , it is understandable how such a misconception can have occurred . |
| 21 | There remains , however , considerable debate concerning how a rule might be precisely defined and how such a construct can be properly applied to the study of social behaviour . |
| 22 | Malinvaud assigns a special role to prices and incomes policies to effect a differential adjustment of W in relation to P , but how such a policy would operate in the absence of quite massive and probably unacceptable levels of state interference both in wage bargaining and in the pricing decisions of firms remains a disconcertingly moot point . |
| 23 | It is also difficult to see how such a policy will ensure continuity of specialist care , for instance through outpatients , after a distantly-resident elderly person has been discharged from hospital . |
| 24 | In the real world it is difficult to see how such a tax could be imposed or calculated , and it would make much more practical sense to tackle the offending firm under monopolies legislation . |
| 25 | Figure 5.4 illustrates how such a situation might arise . |
| 26 | The difficulty with such ‘ sympatric ’ speciation is that species differ , not at a single gene locus , but by many genes ; it is hard to see how such a difference could build up if sexual crossing was continuously breaking it down again . |
| 27 | We will canvass views on how such a lottery should be run and controlled , and how it would fit within the pattern of charitable fund-raising in Britain . |
| 28 | Yes , I think also how you feel it could be improved would be very relevant and how you would feel in the context of a pensioners meeting , an annual meeting like shareholders have in companies and how you if you have any views on how such a meeting might be managed in relation to the deferred pensioners interests , the existing pensioners interests , the employees interest and obviously the company 's interest being adequately reflected at such a meeting but I think we would welcome that aspect . |
| 29 | Nobody has convincingly worked out how such a distortion might occur , but the notion that odd things can happen in the solid state is firmly entrenched in many minds . |
| 30 | But acute difficulties remain on how such a code would be enforced . |