Example sentences of "just how [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Her voice trailed away in despair as she considered just how poor a husband and father Campion Price had been to his family .
2 Yes means a time for us to be together , us and only us in a place that is beautiful and special and quiet and does n't know just how amazing a love is about to transform it into one of those Indian summer memories that make deaf old ladies grin knowingly , when you think they are dead in a deckchair on the sea front .
3 Shortages have become a way of life here , to find these people queueing for staple products shows just how desperate the situation has become .
4 Dr Corder was able to demonstrate just how selective the pottery in this report had been , when he published a full account of the material from Pit 6 in Insula V ( 1941 ) .
5 It was only when she began to spend time at CBS 's corporate headquarters that Wilson realised just how congenial the atmosphere at Virgin had been by comparison — particularly for a highly motivated woman .
6 Although it has been telling the world how successfully it has recovered , Unisys Corp made clear at the annual meeting last week just how parlous the company 's condition remains .
7 The immense difficulties of such translations have served to emphasize just how great a role assumed knowledge plays in the understanding of utterances .
8 Just how great the change has been is perhaps best illustrated by reference to the number of daily commuters into London .
9 And the Bank of England 's ease in selling so many gilt stocks early yesterday is a reminder of just how great the budget deficit remains and how much more public borrowing must follow — taking cash that might otherwise have bought shares .
10 You forget just how clever the boy is . ’
11 Most readers wo n't realise just how wide a circulation Environmental Issues has .
12 Just how successful the campaign has been in straight money terms ( costs per account opened ) is unclear but the advertising is undoubtedly asking to have a different relationship with the viewer than the more passive tradition of the medium .
13 In the South , the marginality of the third main political party , the Irish Labour Party , is an indication of just how successful the articulation of capitalism to religious and national beliefs is .
14 Just how extensive a lord 's rights would be in these circumstances would depend partly upon local custom and partly upon the relative power of lord and vassal .
15 The Ife Six Year Primary Project demonstrates just how profitable a well-run and well-funded project can be .
16 It is still not generally appreciated just how serious a threat to the peace of Europe was posed by the situation developing in north-east Italy and southern Austria in the days immediately following the end of the European war in 1945 .
17 I would like readers to know just how serious the threat from opencast mining is , what it could mean to the landscape , nature and communities of the Gwendraeth , and what they can do to help prevent it .
18 This follows close on the heels of a report published by the RSPB last year , Death by Design , which outlined just how serious the problem had become .
19 The draft law unveiled on May 11th is a step in the right direction , but the small print raises questions about just how autonomous the bank would really be ( see page 112 ) .
20 Some of them , myself included , discover just how fragile the nature of the knee joint can be and how extra vulnerable today 's sophisticated equipment has made it .
21 It is often surprising to see just how close the water conditions in your aquaria or ponds have come to problems .
22 Now to see just how effective a daggerboard is , let's look at these two boats beating .
23 But vets say the public is unaware of just how dangerous the virus can be .
24 The Golden Nugget U. This relatively new species shows just how colourful the hypostomus family can be .
25 But Doyle himself realised just how real the threat to Hendry was the day a large parcel arrived at his Stirling offices .
26 The further problems are associated with difficulties that are encountered when trying to be precise about just how probable a law or theory is in the light of specified evidence .
27 Now even the dignity of that compromise has been sullied by questions of just how intimate the friendship of Charles and Camilla has really been .
28 Walking with Ladislav , I became aware of just how noisy a city Prague is , with its trams and cars with broken or inadequate silencers .
29 Seeing just how comprehensive a work this is , with factory serial number , date of registration , date of next C of A expiry , owner's/operator 's name and probable base all listed , I can only surmise that the note-scribblers/pocket memo mumblers — many of whom seem not to have the slightest knowledge or interest in the type of aeroplane on which the letters are painted — are performing the latter-day equivalent of the sacred ritual which I and many others who have long since outgrown it once enacted in John W.R. Taylor 's ABC of Civil Aircraft Makings .
30 I 'd never realized before just how vulnerable a mistress is .
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