Example sentences of "how [adj] [pers pn] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wrote , ‘ You ca n't imagine how strange it seemed to be journeying thus , without any visible cause for progress other than the magical machine , with its flying white breath and rhythmical , unvarying pace … ‘ |
| 2 | The end-product was interpreted and enforced by judges who were independent of both the legislature and the executive and whose jobs were guaranteed regardless of how inconvenient they proved to be . |
| 3 | Oh , she knew what was going through his head all right , and how careful she had to be not to say or do anything he might misinterpret . |
| 4 | It is good practice and you will soon learn how careful you have to be not to scare them — and the bigger the chub are , the more careful you have to be . |
| 5 | At the outset , you must first decide just how serious you want to be . |
| 6 | ‘ Mrs Wallington , I ca n't tell you how amazing it feels to be here — in all this space-instead of shut up in Venice . ’ |
| 7 | The eyes were open and Ewan could see that , no matter how objective he tried to be , something lived in this body , something which he would soon extinguish with his own , vibrant , developed persona . |
| 8 | His determination is underpinned by a belief that the problem , no matter how large it appears to be , can be overcome . |
| 9 | While you waited to see me , you had plenty of time to reflect on just how good I had to be to afford a suite of offices like this one . |
| 10 | I let myself unwind at last — how good it feels to be back in the field , especially in this cinnamon-scented corner of the mortal sphere . |
| 11 | Birds of prey have a wild side no matter how calm they look or how tame they appear to be . |
| 12 | Try experimenting with light fittings on an extension lead ( protected by an RCD ) to find out where lights look best , how powerful they need to be and whether the colours should be white ( not always the case — especially when lighting trees ) . |
| 13 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 14 | Fred Crocombe went on to work for Boulton Paul Aircraft , and often reflected on how close he came to being one of those many aviator 's lost mysteriously without a trace over the wide expanse of the sea . |
| 15 | ‘ I had n't realised how hard you have to work , and how co-ordinated you have to be with the more difficult movements . |
| 16 | Can you see how variable it has to be , because you 've got about everything in there . |
| 17 | How near you have to be depends upon your mobility . |
| 18 | I ca n't tell you how bad it feels to be one of them ; besides , I 've not chosen … |