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

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1 There is , however , one other problem requiring study which could illuminate the question of how profitable the war was .
2 This was originally a defence system , known as Warrior 's Dyke , which isolated the headland from attackers — another reminder of how vulnerable the spot was in ancient times .
3 We brought the figure down having at le , and waited two years and that 's th , I think that proves the lad 's foundation to the argument of how desperate the fire service need , need this station and it has absolutely nothing to do with Dovelands school er er whatsoever as far as I 'm concerned , I 'm the spokesperson for public protection not education and that 's it and er I 'm surprised er er that I know erm er er that Mr is is a very , very good supporter of the er southern fire station and supported us in the er in the er question we asked at the last council er meeting and er I 'm surprised he has n't spoke or even Mr who er , who likes to s , who likes to speak in the chamber but I 've has n't supported the fire station .
4 They got another example of how dangerous the Headmistress could be on the very next day .
5 So what you 're doing is making assumptions about the population from which your samples were drawn , so therefore this is known as a parametric technique Nearly there Now , another interpretation of Pearson 's R , or the correlation coefficient generally , is variants If you square the correlation coefficient it equally the proportion of variants in X accounted for by Y. Now that is actually a very good measure of how good a correlation is .
6 Probably the only person really aware of how good a job has been done is the selector and the selector 's line manager .
7 It seems that Hamilton received independent confirmation of how good the School was .
8 Beneath the slabs was the first indication of how thorough the builder of the pond mark one had been .
9 That in turn will give an indication of how believable the City finds the Chancellor 's figures .
10 Again there came to him a sense of how small a town of some eighty-five thousand people really was .
11 That is not so much a sign that molecular biology is a young person 's game , but rather a proof of how great a magnet for young people 's enthusiasm the structure of DNA has proved to be .
12 And she carried on with the arrangement she was making , cheerfully unaware of how great a change in attitude that charitable thought represented .
13 ‘ My job is to effect the disentanglement , with the University having a clear view of how successful the press is , and the extent to which it is calling on or contributing to University funds , ’ says David Martin .
14 Assessment of how successful an event has been depends largely on feedback , and , if possible , the organisers should get together afterwards to hear comments and take note for future reference .
15 This is the occasion when a reader can visit the same show and make a personal assessment of how helpful the art critic has been .
16 The Dutch have fought hard for their environment and more than any other nation they are aware of how unremitting the battle is .
17 The fact that only three west European companies were prepared to make a major commitment in such a key area was one more indication of how global the electronics industry had become .
18 ( It is not possible , regardless of how complex a model is used , to analyse all of the text perfectly ) .
19 If , conversely , one used educational and type-of-occupation criteria to classify individuals ( and these are highly relevant to the question of how standard a speaker 's language is ) , it is probable that many wives , especially those of working-class men , would come out above their husbands .
20 Evaluation of the project can also be seen in terms of how useful the teacher sees the microcomputer in the project .
21 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 .
22 The selection of letters that are similar to what was written are retrieved with an indication of how close a match was obtained .
23 Labour said Mr Major 's decision was ‘ a public admission of how serious the situation has become ’ .
24 Alkalinity is not a measure of how alkaline a solution is , it is therefore a stupid name
25 Thirdly , there was a divergence of opinion on the question of how automatic the visit should be , with a considerable number of respondents favouring the lapse of periods ranging from one week to three months before the inspection was triggered .
26 To give you an idea of how widespread the problem is the Trading Standards Department in Nottinghamshire er has set up three advice centres to help consumers with information and advice when you have problems like that .
27 An illustration if you like of how competitive the package holiday industry became .
28 This chapter uses the first measure to give an outline indication of how big a part credit , overall , plays in consumer spending , and how that has changed over time .
29 I 'm trying to give you an idea of how big the field is .
30 Surprisingly , astronomers have only a vague idea of how big the Universe really is because of uncertainties in their ‘ cosmological distance scale ’ .
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