Example sentences of "[Wh adv] much [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and computer science I mean , that 's where the answers all come , I 'm quite sure , I 'm just sceptical , that we know how much about it . |
| 2 | Hence , I may have great difficulty in answering a relatively simple question like ‘ Why do you put so much energy into your career ? ’ and I would have even more difficulty in deciding how much energy 1 should put into my career and how much into my family . |
| 3 | We let the following young players go for next to nothing … how much for them now … |
| 4 | buyers and dealers at the really smart sales thrown together for days on end in the sales rooms are keen observers of who paid how much for what , who 's selling what and why . |
| 5 | Looking back , nobody could now say how much of her success was due to her defection and how much to her playing . |
| 6 | But such moments of uplift as were provided by the mystics could not prevent Lewis 's common-sense humility from seeing ‘ how much of one 's philosophy and religion are mere talk ’ . |
| 7 | To identify and measure the trade-offs that exist between economic objectives so that the policy-maker is made aware of how much of one must be given up to get more of another , e.g. 2 per cent more inflation or 0.5 per cent less unemployment . |
| 8 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 9 | Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure , That 's that 's Colin goes on to say , because you shall be like him does not mean that you are to care little about how much of him can be seen in your life . |
| 10 | But the civil servants have been vague when it comes to the detail of who is to be the competent authority , who is to foot the bill for its work ( and any extra studies it may require before giving consent ) , and how much of its deliberations are to be made public . |
| 11 | However the surprise in this ‘ elvish tradition ’ of mythic poetry is how much of its stories is conveyed by purely formal devices , by verbal patterns with meaning as apparently inherent in them as elsewhere in place-names , in untranslated fragments , or in Bombadil . |
| 12 | Labour law and order spokesman Alun Michael MP said : ‘ If every item of shopping we bought had a ticket telling us how much of its price was due to crime losses and higher insurance premiums , we would all be appalled . |
| 13 | The implementation with fuzzy rules worked , but it was provided with substantial prior knowledge in the form of the rules , and I am not sure how much of its success was due to learning . |
| 14 | It omitted to mention how much of its ever-increasing charges it contributed to WaterAid . |
| 15 | This may buy some short-term security , but at the cost of limiting how much of themselves can be revealed and used in relationships with others . |
| 16 | How much of what the informants said was discarded by the interviewer because he did not find it useful — and by what criteria did he decide what was useful and what was not ? |
| 17 | How much of what you get told is lies ? |
| 18 | As far as the latter is concerned , I am always surprised by how much of what is considered politically impossible today turns out to be quite acceptable tomorrow . |
| 19 | How much of what happened before she left must he disclose ? |
| 20 | She wondered how much of what she had been born with was left . |
| 21 | How much of what teachers currently feel they have to do could be accomplished as well or better by the use of a library of varied instructional materials supervised by well-trained staff with both bibliographical and subject-teaching competence ? |
| 22 | I wish I knew how much of what he says is true ! ’ |
| 23 | How much of what you read was familiar to you-terminology , people , places , general developments ? |
| 24 | I did n't know how much of what I was saying he understood . |
| 25 | He eyed the boy a moment longer , not certain how much of what he was saying was understood , then gave a small shrug . |
| 26 | How much of what they say is fact and how much is opinion ? |
| 27 | Or it could be the beginning of justice and the end of administering the law , because , how much of what goes on in court is actually administering the law , rather than determining natural justice . |
| 28 | The investor has to choose how much of their £2,400 will go in each of them . |
| 29 | Both sides appeared keen to work for some kind of reconciliation , although how much of their willingness to co-operate was purely political was never made clear . |
| 30 | Asked how much of their weekly shopping they would do on a Sunday if all shops were open , they answered , on average , 12% . |