Example sentences of "how [adv] we [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , I shall look at some examples of internal linguistic variation in Belfast in ( roughly ) ascending order of generality in order to show how little we can rely on outside norms in preparing a sociolinguistic analysis . |
| 2 | It will have to be the shortened version , I 'm afraid , but you 'll be surprised how much we can cover in a few hours . ’ |
| 3 | And imagine how much we can learn from them ! |
| 4 | On the latter point , my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made it plain in his statement that we shall explore further with Russia and the other republics how best we can assist in the provision of employment for the scientists within the CIS to prevent them from going abroad . |
| 5 | QC has agreed to chair a working party to consider how best we can provide for effective sanctions for the nonpayment of subscriptions . |
| 6 | The old phrase , ‘ all is fair in love and war ’ , suggests how low we may stoop in order to conquer . |
| 7 | They 're testing us out , seeing how far we 'll go in granting them permission to build . ’ |
| 8 | Two answers may be given : first , just as they illuminate many other areas of social life , the methods and findings of our rivals may help us understand the work of the professions ( to illustrate this , some of my examples will be drawn from medical novels ; no doubt legal novels will be equally instructive ) ; second , it is not clear how far we can go in understanding other occupations ' behaviour unless we grasp that of our own . |
| 9 | That said , there is a serious question about how far we can speak of ‘ women 's languages ’ or ‘ genderlects ’ in the same way we talk of ‘ Lancashire dialect ’ or ‘ Jamaican creole ’ . |
| 10 | Instead he proposes an approach that asks the question ‘ How do these people deal with certain basic human predicaments ? ’ and makes the pertinent point that ‘ the problem is not the quality we have isolated , e.g. , aggression , but how far we can get with an adequate description of what we have found ’ . |
| 11 | There too there is no straightforward unchallengeable meaning , but let's see how far we can get with one immediately obvious sense of screen — that it is a something , noticeable in itself , behind which other things happen . |
| 12 | How far this will work depends on how far we can inject into cross-curricular work the essence of our ideas and make them genuine focuses of our work ( and not peripheral elements ) . |
| 13 | We could only carry on like this for so long , and it all depended on how well we could sleep during the day . |