Example sentences of "how [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We all know how each other plays and that 's why things are ticking . |
| 2 | For years , the traditional method has been to use phonetics ; learning how each letter sounds and building up a word . |
| 3 | I do n't know how working class people can manage to survive . |
| 4 | These perceptions are more than a sad reflection of how little sex roles have changed : women seem to have much invested in keeping things the way they are , in seeing their partners as stronger and saner . |
| 5 | This seems ironic , but letters and later statements show how little faith Eliot had in his own literary output , however confident he might sound in verse , or in the ex cathedra pronouncements of ‘ Tradition and the Individual Talent ’ . |
| 6 | You know , I was on the phone to a customer for fifteen to twenty minutes because they 'd had a bad experience and I was actually making an appointment for Roy to go in and that twenty minutes is a long time , and I think really if anything , it 's just brought to me really , , how little time sometimes , it 's not always the case , it does vary , that , depending on the incoming calls , depending if you 've got got through the emerging paperwork for whatever reason , how little quality time perhaps you do actually spend on the phone , making outgoing calls to sell . |
| 7 | Left alone , Charlotte walked slowly down the length of the room , debating with herself how much or how little Holly McKitrick might know . |
| 8 | How little interest people take in their jobs these days . |
| 9 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 10 | The comprehensive victory of the National government showed how little impact fascism in particular and political extremism in general had made on the British public by 1935 . |
| 11 | How sad it is to behold how little importance life has for nature , these myriads of creatures called into being only to be immediately destroyed . " |
| 12 | It was amazing how little time children wasted . |
| 13 | So by separating these individual items of the application , the presentation layer , the application layer and the database layer , we I suppose to say we do n't care is the wrong word , we do n't mind how much client server or how little client server you want your particular application to be . |
| 14 | walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now . |
| 15 | He 's written a book describing how eight S-A-S men helped destroy Iraqi missiles aimed at Israel . |
| 16 | Eye-witnesses told how eight police vans and three patrol cars swept up to a house in the street , flooding the area with police officers . |
| 17 | In other words , how disobedient will women 's studies be in the 1980s ? |
| 18 | With increasing professionalism and sophistication , the buyers of headhunting services have become more astute , often having a great understanding of how executive search firms operate and the similarities and the differences between them . |
| 19 | HOW right Jaci Stephen was to praise Michael Crawford 's appearance in an otherwise dreary Royal Variety Performance . |
| 20 | You will have seen how that road surface can become soft and sticky in extreme heat . |
| 21 | ‘ Are you still worried about how that boss lady 's going to react when you get back there ? ’ |
| 22 | Having established the existence of a social structure , functionalist analysis turns to a consideration of how that structure functions . |
| 23 | In the coming years the size of the tax differential between spirits and wine will directly influence how that figure rises or falls . |
| 24 | In the Japanese setting , for example , it would be wholly inappropriate to conclude that a particular element such as seniority-based wage payments would be desirable as a policy prescription elsewhere , without a prior understanding of how that wage system relates both to the general security of employment in large Japanese firms and , possibly , the cultural assumptions concerning the importance of age in other parts of Japanese society ( Dore , 1973 ) . |
| 25 | How that coffee machines any , any old machine well it 's a small office , maybe a bigger offices have the vending machine , but every office will have a machine . |
| 26 | I can just imagine how that Wardley cow will be crowing . |
| 27 | If the economy is in recession , no matter how low interest rates are driven , people can not be forced to borrow if they do not wish to . |
| 28 | It made me forget for a moment how low sales figures so often are nowadays , as there are some exciting campaigns planned , some clever gimmicks , some expensive promotions and , more important , some wonderful books . |
| 29 | No attempt can be made in a work of this scope to relate the full story of how nineteenth century attitudes to death evolved during the present century into those now prevailing . |
| 30 | The visiting team has formed a CAT to work out how further product improvements can be introduced . |