Example sentences of "how [adj] [pos pn] [noun] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of people will be effectively priced out of the system , no matter how strong their cases may appear . |
| 2 | You 'll be surprised how tranquil your life will become and how much time to talk you will have . |
| 3 | No coffin-maker or funeral furnisher worthy of his reputation would have failed to dress a corpse , no matter how lowly his subject might have been . |
| 4 | How contemptible his flight must have appeared to her whom , not long before , he himself had urged not to try and solve her difficulties by running away . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , ’ said St John , ‘ but unfortunately we can imagine how different our lives might have been . ’ |
| 6 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 7 | I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years . |
| 8 | He mused on how different his life would have been if he had met Viola when he was twenty-two , or rather someone like her , for she would not even have been a twinkle in her parents ' eyes at that stage . |
| 9 | Er well I mean I want to find from A T S or someone like that how much their cars would cost |
| 10 | Isabella does not know that the Duke had played the role of the Friar instructing her in the foiling of Angelo 's plots , and so , lacking any independent evidence , she realizes how feeble her case must seem ; yet she still affirms that But the Duke , behaving as Angelo had predicted , and as he would have to behave if he had no evidence , sweeps aside her complaint , leaving her with only heaven to appeal to : The evil is indeed finally ‘ unfolded ’ , not by heaven but by the Duke , although Angelo ( as if recalling that passage in Luke 's gospel ) ascribes divine omniscience to him : But the Duke has only used deception and disguise , legitimately , as Shakespeare makes him say : ‘ Craft against vice I must apply ’ ( III.ii.270 ) . |
| 11 | I had not realized just how cold my house might seem , she having no need to be working about the place . |
| 12 | Using Estée Lauder 's Destination range , which features plums and smoky greys , we showed how good her eyes can look with quite strong colours . |
| 13 | And this is where Derek comes in ( think how useful his fax would have been with the more timid cross dresser ) . |
| 14 | Now that she had had time to think everything through on the long walk home , she had soon realised how ridiculous her accusations must have sounded . |
| 15 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |