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

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1 Nor do you know how cruel that blindness and weakness can be — and all the more so when they are sugared over with sentiment and concern , with the pretence of tenderness .
2 You will probably find you are very surprised by how little that cost may be .
3 How strong that case should be depends on the circumstances of the particular case .
4 When they first met up on a ‘ Carry On ’ set a couple of years before no one knew how strong that love would be .
5 How bittersweet that name tasted on her tongue .
6 Complex formulas will often be employed to show how impersonal and objective the decision-making has been .
7 There is nothing to learn from reading this book except , perhaps , how vain and self-regarding some journalists are .
8 HOW strange that building societies are going to start quizzing would-be homebuyers on their private lives to assess what mortgage rate they should pay .
9 How fresh and green the grass !
10 Two-thirds of it is about The Beatles , with the last twenty years condensed into a hundred pages , which should give you some idea of how interesting that portion of his life is .
11 Two-thirds of it is about The Beatles , with the last twenty years condensed into a hundred pages , which should give you some idea of how interesting that portion of his life is .
12 I had no idea how old and crotchety she 'd become over the last few years . ’
13 America 's thrifts debacle showed how dangerous that impulse can be .
14 You know how rotten that house was .
15 She also points out how deceptive that phrase is , with its implication that all women are somehow the same .
16 Do you have any idea how extravagant that sister of mine is ?
17 In this chapter we shall go deeper into the question of how limited that job is , and shall look at the results of some current formula-based work .
18 But Spenser also makes it clear that it is difficult and sometimes impossible to distinguish between the true and the false , regardless of how clear-sighted and self-controlled his masculine knights may be .
19 Quite how individual that voice could become is underlined in the surest possible way in his later Corelli Variations Op. 42 of 1931 : the monumental is the very stuff of which they are made .
20 Hence every society no matter how simple or complex must differentiate persons in terms of both prestige and esteem and must therefore possess a certain amount of institutionalised inequality ( Davis and Moore 1945 p. 243 ) .
21 ‘ Who knows how much that total could be by the year 2000 . ’
22 It 's surprising just how much that interest can be worth to you over the full period of your course .
23 This still leaves the problem of which particular deviant group to join , and of how typical that group is of all such groups .
24 It is not yet clear how constant that cycle is .
25 How unusual that word appeared from his lips , of course you , who did not know him , can not conceive . ’
26 What is apparent , even from this small slice , is just how diverse that sector is .
27 The supplementary is , " How do you decide how large that business should be ? " .
28 It is easy to understand how irksome that condition has been felt to be and how strong has been the temptation to try to tamper with it .
29 Brown thought about how lucky that man had been .
30 I can still remember how good that coffee tasted , and how different it tasted from the common-room coffee I was used to .
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