Example sentences of "how [adj] [art] [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might have listened to complaints of how stifling an aunt could be when one wanted to wander around London alone , or how one got sick in Venice or Paris , but he could only touch an elbow with mock sympathy or pat a sea-sprayed hand . |
| 2 | No matter how logical or even how emotional the communication may be , the barrier prevents any unifying of perceptions . |
| 3 | He never realized how grateful a man could be for the chance to wash . |
| 4 | In private most managers worry intensely about how corrosive the change will be . |
| 5 | Knowing that large crowds mean a large number of losses , I 'm sure you can also imagine how rich the ground must be at certain spots on Harrogate 's common . |
| 6 | To calculate how strong a material ought to be we need to make use of the concept of energy . |
| 7 | Trees can be useful indicators of wind variation with height , and the way in which leaves are turned , particularly on the lower branches , shows clearly how turbulent the air can be . |
| 8 | How like the Llyn Peninsula Strumble Head looks from the air , and how awful the nightmare would be , should it suffer a similar fate . |
| 9 | how tall a hare can run , how easily ; |
| 10 | André and I are both fluent , but I 've seen how disadvantaged an outsider can be without any knowledge of the language . ’ |
| 11 | How strange the place must look , to him . |
| 12 | How does the bird manage to identify part of the scene as a fish , or as food , in the first place , and how is it thereupon led to take appropriate action ( that is , how does it know that it should dive , irrespective of how steep the dive should be ) ? |
| 13 | The difficulty arises partly in differentiating between what the user needs to know about the workings of the system , i.e. , how transparent the system should be so that the task can be performed effectively and efficiently . |
| 14 | You edit each line separately , once you 've set up how high the banner will be , and have no control over how long the banner will stretch . |
| 15 | Malekith himself remarked that there was no telling how high the corruption might reach . |
| 16 | How different the picture might be if you had the protection of the Midland Personal Accident Plan . |
| 17 | How different the world may have been if long ago those missionaries who set out to convert the world to belief in an all-providing benevolent ‘ god ’ , had themselves been aware that the human race , sooner or later , would have to control its rate of procreation , for the world can never provide for unlimited human life . |
| 18 | The flatness is a shame , because this is a public service : you can glean from the programme an idea both of how irrational the law can be , and of how flimsy most people 's understanding of it is . |
| 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 | They got another example of how dangerous the Headmistress could be on the very next day . |
| 21 | Mr Kirwan , the managing director of Davset Construction and Building , which is based on The Esplanade , said last night : ‘ It 's time people realised how dangerous the sea can be . |
| 22 | But vets say the public is unaware of just how dangerous the virus can be . |
| 23 | The police had realised how serious the incident could be , and managed to find Robert before he was physically harmed . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | However , how such a judgement can be made is controversial . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |