Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [Wh adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The apologies may be veiled and may take the form of a reversal of previous policies , but they nevertheless constitute the admission of how wrong the Government have been .
2 But the point of central authority effecting a conversion is important , both in terms of the role of local kings in a noble society and in raising the question of how deep the conversion went .
3 ‘ I believe that the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can very often be traced to the question of how well the organisation brings out the great energies and talents of its people .
4 First , there is the question of how far the Conservative proposals which form the basis of the present structure were consistent with the Redcliffe-Maud analysis .
5 Any consideration of the changing nature of the English village seems inevitably to raise the question of how far the influx of newcomers has destroyed the village ‘ community ’ .
6 Once a system of law accepts possession as a sufficient foundation for a claim for recovery of personal property it is faced with the question of how far the defendant should be allowed to raise the issue that a third party has a better right to the property than the plaintiff — the jus tertii .
7 At the same time , we may have to accept that the National Curriculum finally forces us to address the question of how far the polarization of the discourse , and the adopting of classroom strategies which celebrate something called ‘ process ’ at the expense of content , may both stem in part from a posture of defensiveness in the face of the problem of the primary class teacher 's curriculum knowledge .
8 The question of how far the report would be a public document remained unanswered and therefore the extent to which it was an accountability exercise was not made clear to staff .
9 Consideration of the inspection and the feedback sessions raises the question of how far the inspection was a follow-on from the self-appraisal and of how far the school 's own review was evaluated by professional outsiders .
10 The real problem for Schenk 's case is the question of how far the target figures of the fabliaux can be identified with the real humanity that both authors and readers/listeners must be part of .
11 We may also collect factual information on the ability and attitude of individual pupils and on their background in the subject concerned ; this last is of importance because the level of demand on pupils can only be judged in the knowledge of how far the material concerned is new to them and of their record of success or failure with it in the past .
12 Although the judgment of how well a film shows what normally happens at a junction was used differently in Study 3 and in Groeger and Chapman ( 1992 , in preparation a ) there was no evidence in either case that this was related to recognition sensitivity .
13 He studied the boy a moment , aware all the time of how closely the tutor was watching him .
14 The Hubble constant is a measure of how fast the Universe is expanding , and the age and the size of the Universe are related to it .
15 It is a measure of how seriously the Government take the committee 's work that we have responded to its recommendations within a month of their being submitted to us .
16 This raises a question of how long the IRA have had them .
17 This seems to be effectively true in practice , and the success of a charge-based calculation is a reflection of how well the actual differences in charge are reproduced [ 2 ] .
18 This was a test of how fast the regiment could pack up and move out to its battle positions , and was supposed to come as a big surprise , but Maxim knew how easy it was to predict .
19 The design and cost evaluation will be based on a facilities brief derived from the market analysis appropriate for the site , a contract strategy and overall programme with defined roles for the technical professionals , a view of how easy the project would be to build and life cycle costs and elemental costing .
20 The mean percentage correct cloze score ( i.e. , the percentage of deleted words correctly replaced by the reader ) appeared to give an indication of how well a passage was understood .
21 The Washington Post of July 17 described this overwhelming endorsement as " an indication of how far the official Communist majority has had to move in order to keep pace with the pressure from Rukh [ the main nationalist opposition group ] " .
22 You should also give your client an indication of how long the appointment is going to take .
23 It was an example of how physically the unique , 4¼-mile race gets to people .
24 I have visited schools where informal methods are practised and in which each teacher has to submit a ‘ projected ’ programme for the coming week to the headteacher on each Friday morning together with an analysis of how closely the current week followed the original forecast .
25 An estimate of how well the non-crystallographic fivefold symmetry is conserved has been made by applying an exact fivefold rotation for a given atom and determining the r.m.s.d. from the observed positions .
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