Example sentences of "[to-vb] how [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shindler will carry out an environmental compliance audit , to establish how well a company is complying with existing legislation . |
| 2 | And Alan Millet traced a path to discover how well a man might withstand the sophistication of modern interrogation at the hands of the masters of that art . |
| 3 | SOME time ago , but not so far back that it can be dismissed as incidental , a belligerent centre-half , who needed very little encouragement in such nefarious matters , was instructed to discover how fast the visiting centre-forward could limp . |
| 4 | At such a time , when attitudes were changing but no effective consensus had emerged , it was not surprising that Truman should see in Churchill 's forthcoming speech at Fulton ( Missouri ) an opportunity to discover how far a sea-change was taking place in American opinion . |
| 5 | THOUSANDS of people who use Edinburgh 's 500 city centre pubs were today waiting to discover how late the bars can remain open . |
| 6 | The project will analyse the following of selected great magnates : six English earldoms and one contemporary Norman county , to see what exactly was the chronology of the change ; what sorts of men followed great magnates at what dates ; and to discover how precisely the change happened . |
| 7 | Since the questions of apprenticeship and pay lie at the heart of the problem , we should first examine the surviving evidence to discover how long an apprenticeship women actually served , and how much they were paid , before going on to analyse the re-organization of the work process . |
| 8 | Volunteers are naturally eager to know how well the event has done so it 's best that the cash is totalled before they leave then either banked straight away or placed in the safe keeping of the headteacher or the deputy until the bank opens on the following day . |
| 9 | B. When people want to know how well the whole of British industry is doing , they use the success or failure of ICI ( Imperial Chemical Industries ) as a guide , since its products are used by most other firms . |
| 10 | Managers , investors and other interested groups invariably wish to know how well an organization performed during a given period and its financial position at a given point in time . |
| 11 | She did not dare to look over the edge : she did n't want to know how far the water had risen . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) It is difficult to know how far the success of the project should be attributed to the project itself and how far it should be attributed to those events which preceded it and provided an environment in which the project could flourish ( or wither ) . |
| 13 | The vendor will also be concerned to know how quickly the cash will be returned to it by the purchaser . |
| 14 | But of course , you want to know how loud the S120 is , do n't you ? |
| 15 | She had an embarrassed recollection of having burst into tears , of demanding to know how long the affair with Henrietta had been going on . |
| 16 | The day finished with some drama and Mass and I was sadly surprised to find how quickly the day had gone . |
| 17 | The aim is to find how far the reader is using positive strategies , exemplified by certain types of miscue . |
| 18 | Accounts are also kept for shareholders , but American accounting laws allow studios to guess how well a film will do in each of its markets ( an invitation either to claim profits early or to put off losses ) ; for the tax man ( ditto ) ; and for various stars who have been promised shares of a film 's net profit — a figure which a studio wants to keep as low as possible . |
| 19 | It is interesting to observe how frequently the French style prevails not just in the building of hotels but in the whole ‘ architecture of pleasure ’ in Britain . |
| 20 | It would help to define how widely the term Gypsy applied , and who exactly could be called a gypsy . |
| 21 | On the other hand the material which Eliot had put into Pound 's hands turned out to be so inchoate that many readers were led to wonder how far the poem as they had it all these years was in any authentic sense Eliot 's at all . |
| 22 | Wall Street is starting to wonder how long the Federal Reserve can continue to ignore such evidence of rising inflation , despite pressure from the White House to lower interest rates . |
| 23 | Its almost immediate closure was announced and then retracted last autumn , and its 600 or so employees are now waiting to hear how long the reprieve will last . |
| 24 | An imaginative application of multi-dimensional scaling by the statistician David Kendall serves to illustrate how widely the technique can be applied . |
| 25 | In what follows my main purposes are : ( 1 ) to demonstrate the patterns of simplification that can be traced by comparing our inner-city data with that of the city-wide random sample ‘ doorstep ’ survey and the outer-city community studies ; and ( 2 ) to consider how far a theory of strong and weak ties can account for the maintenance of complex patterns and the development of simpler ones . |
| 26 | I 'm inviting you to consider how far a Christian should go in forgiving and to how far a Christian organisation like this school should go , in showing forgiveness er I just want to kick you off with one or two points on each of those . |
| 27 | Third , it is instructive to consider how far the final form of local government reorganisation in England was affected by party politics . |
| 28 | The purpose of the next two chapters is to consider how far the practical analysis of language use in live speech communities can contribute to our understanding of language change . |
| 29 | The aim of this investigation is to determine how well the syntax analyser behaves when the lattice is successively degraded . |
| 30 | To determine how far the ball bounces roll the Artillery dice again and mark the spot where the ball comes to land . |