Example sentences of "of [Wh adv] much [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Sometimes I wonder that she did n't collapse under the sheer weight of how much we needed her , of how unreasonably we all admired and needed her . |
2 | ( Test of how much we use our local stations ) : What are the approximate journey times by the most direct route : — |
3 | ( Test of how much we use our local lines . ) |
4 | If you need to use them , you now have a record of how much they will cost , in advance . |
5 | There is a range of behavioural methods which animals use to try to cope with the conditions , and again we can make measurements of how much they are having to use these . |
6 | Grazers have the enormous advantage that there is plenty of their favourite food available , all around them , stretching for as far as the eye can see and regrowing time and again regardless of how much they crop it . |
7 | Romanians are very well aware of how much they have inherited from the Ceauşescu regime and how difficult it is , with the best will in the world , to purge the moral degradation from their souls . |
8 | I think of what each group produced , not in terms of how far from a conclusion they were , but in terms of how much they had achieved . |
9 | Householders will have their first indication of how much they will have to pay by late April . |
10 | If I asked for money from my husband he would talk of all the expenses , of how much it cost the family to keep me . |
11 | Clearly the question of how much it costs to sustain at home elderly people with dementia is a very important one , but it is one which is very difficult to answer . |
12 | And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another . |
13 | And he has n't the least idea of how much it will come to . |
14 | The hon. Member for Sheffield , Brightside ( Mr. Blunkett ) raised the question of how much it cost to collect a tonne of rubbish in one place as opposed to another . |
15 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ she said gently , well aware of how much it meant to her . |