Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Realising how little they knew about the subject , she and two staff midwives from Wythenshawe began to research the needs of deaf women during pregnancy . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd be amazed how little we know about the polar regions , ’ says Dr Preben Goodmandsen of the Technical University of Denmark . |
| 4 | Just how little we know about the site 's status and function is reinforced by recent spectacular discoveries , including the hoard of gold coins and the cache of Christian silverware . |
| 5 | The problem of the survival of the Aviti is a useful reminder of how little we know about the political structure of even our best evidenced sixth-century diocese ; but from the evidence which we do have it is clear that the exercise of episcopal power in the Auvergne was no simple matter . |
| 6 | An example of how little it matters to the speechreader is the sound of TH as in : |
| 7 | For last year 's service we drew up a plan and then wrote a personal letter from the laity group to all the Churches , emphasising how much we believed in the power of praying together for Unity . |
| 8 | That made me realise how much we depend on the prison officers and the fantastic security systems that have been built up . |
| 9 | Seen from this point of view , what is remarkable about neurobiology is how much we know about the brain , not , as you might think , how little . |
| 10 | I am impressed tonight to see how much we agree about the position there and on the need for much stronger action than has been taken so far . |
| 11 | For example , in a survey I carried out on the membership of the National Trust — one of the largest voluntary associations in Britain with over a million and a quarter members — it was decided that topics should include such things as how people came to join , how they felt about the payment of subscriptions , how much they read of the literature the Trust sent them , what their main interests in conservation were , how active a part they wanted to play in the work of the Trust , and so on . |
| 12 | In one key experiment , for example , we trained over a hundred birds , measuring their imprinting preference score and motor activity ( that is , how much they ran in the wheels ) as well as RNA synthesis . |
| 13 | For example storytime might take place at an established time towards the end of the school day , but in a follow-up session the next day questions could be asked to see how much they remember of the story , or one child could be asked to retell the story they heard yesterday ( see Boxes 4 and 5 ) . |
| 14 | How far they were supreme in any new and unprecedented sense , whether their advance can be termed revolutionary , how much they owed to the innovatory genius of Thomas Cromwell are questions still open to dispute . |
| 15 | But none of the regional clubs will quantify how much they earn from the lucrative Clubcall telephone commentaries . |
| 16 | A million nature lovers all over the country are being asked to show how much they care for the countryside in an innovative challenge from the RSPB . |
| 17 | No matter how much he wiped at the condensation on the window , he could still barely see what was going on out there . |
| 18 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 19 | Hardly a candidate for success you might think but you would be wrong to the tune of £120m because that 's how much it took at the US box-office . |
| 20 | He knows that Grampian regional council is bound by statute to say how much it got from the sale ; it can not simply say that it will not tell anyone . |
| 21 | The authors , writing in the British Medical Journal , believe that what happens to babies before birth , including how long they stay in the womb , may determine how healthy their lungs are later in life . |
| 22 | For the proximo-distal axis , our suggestion is that the cells learn their position by measuring how long they remain in the progress zone , a mechanism based on measuring time . |
| 23 | The cells in the progress zone seem to be able to measure how long they remain in the progress zone and this enables them to , ‘ know ’ their position along the proximo-distal axis . |
| 24 | For how long they operated in the Coniston Fells is not known . |
| 25 | She did n't know how long she knelt on the cold floor with her mother still and silent in her arms . |
| 26 | She did n't know how long she sat at the table , letting her coffee go cold . |
| 27 | But just how long it takes for the heat to flow out will depend on how well your home is insulated and draught proofed . |
| 28 | The graph below shows how long it takes for the present value of £1,000 per year to reach £15,000 . |
| 29 | But just how long it takes for the heat to flow out will depend on how well insulated and draughtproofed your home is . |
| 30 | As the T1 determines how long it take for the magnetic resonance signal to recover after each image , a long T1 — that is , 1–3 seconds as in water , determines the maximum image frequency achievable in continuous , long duration experiments . |