Example sentences of "of [Wh adv] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herod had arrested John because John kept reminding Herod of how wrong he had been to marry Herodias , who was already married to Herod 's brother Philip . |
| 2 | I asked for details of how well they had maintained their new figures or if , in fact , they had n't . |
| 3 | If the skirting is painted in a different colour to the walls , do n't forget to stick a smaller sample of the skirting colour next to the wall colour so you have an idea of how well they work together . |
| 4 | Items in the tests are not selected on the basis of how well they discriminate among students , i.e. they are not norm-referenced . |
| 5 | However , as late as 1979 a Soviet researcher wrote that no system existed for checking and analysing technical and economic information relating to product quality , and that ‘ present methods of assessing the quality of goods manufactured for export or already delivered to the foreign consumer can not provide an adequate view of how well they are produced ’ ( Gruzinov : 1979 , p. 191 ) . |
| 6 | It was a measure of how well they had done that he even considered such an awful thing . |
| 7 | Subjects were then asked to give a written rating to each of the junctions of how well they previously knew it . |
| 8 | The insularity of managers is also sharply criticised : " Businessmen have a keen sense of how well they are looking after their customers . |
| 9 | After six months , when the new employee has had a chance to settle in and learn the ropes , make a thorough and honest assessment of how well she/he is fulfilling the requirements . |
| 10 | The secret of survival and success at college can be very largely defined in terms of how well you organize your time . |
| 11 | sort of try two or three styles then sort of how well you got ta think about your headdress and that first , have n't you ? |
| 12 | The idea is to compare a store 's performance not just with its historical record , but with some more objective measure of how well it should be doing . |
| 13 | The survival of the 1947 constitution without major change since the US occupation ended , is taken as evidence of how well it fits with the attitudes and expectations of contemporary Japan . |
| 14 | If you ca n't hear me at the back because my voice drops from time to time then shout away because I 'm not always aware of how well it carries . |
| 15 | Smith 's application of Smelser 's model is forced to rely on an assortment of different examples and there is little sense of how well it applies to separate case studies . |
| 16 | If a firm is operating in a good , competitive market then , notwithstanding the problems associated with accounting measurements , profit does give an indication of how well it produced goods : the market was willing to pay more for the finished goods than it cost the firm to produce them , if the firm made a profit . |
| 17 | Clough added : ‘ He 's earned himself a contract not because of how well he has done for us , but because I think he can carry on after 32 . ’ |
| 18 | But , talk to Stevely on the subject of how well he has taught them and this most modest of men will go off at a tangent , drawing attention to the extent to which both girls have been prepared to work . |
| 19 | Flowers and leaves , being natural materials , have a mind of their own and regardless of how carefully you follow my instructions on how to press , some of the petals will decide to bend before the press is shut , or develop brown patches for no reason at all . |
| 20 | But by now Winnie Ewing was in the throes of her by-election campaign to win Hamilton for the SNP , and aware of how fervently I agreed with everything she was saying ( and wished a Liberal had been saying ) I felt it would be dishonest to hold back any longer . |
| 21 | Our observations are related to an issue that we believe has been unduly neglected — the question of how completely we interpret texts . |
| 22 | Clients are often totally unaware of how negatively they may be talking to themselves , anticipating failure and minimizing success . |
| 23 | Callaghan 's mistake may have derived from his own inability to grasp the significance of media images irrespective of how closely they did or did not correlate with some other version of ‘ reality ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Last year I won the Julie Rose 10K in a time which was within 10 seconds of my track best for the season , which is indicative of how badly I ran on the track . |
| 25 | This made me aware of how badly I 'd done with the domestic arrangements . |
| 26 | I could think only of how badly I wanted to make love to you again , with the sunshine on your beautiful face . ’ |
| 27 | Driving for cash er well an indication of how strongly we , we 've been driving for cash is that er the reduction i in er operating cash flow is less than the reduction in profit . |
| 28 | The extent to which they try to run towards the red compared with the yellow is taken as a measure of how strongly they have been imprinted . |
| 29 | He blushed to think of how shamelessly he 'd paraded himself when he 'd had Judith on his arm ; how he 'd joked that she loved him for his cleanliness , and for his taste in bidets . |
| 30 | If Liz and Owen had n't had that accident , which brought us together to look after the twins , we might never have found each other again ! ’ she cried , feeling almost faint as she fell back on the pillows , hardly able to bear the thought of how narrowly they had averted a lifetime of unhappiness . |