Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [noun] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How complex was the human world ! |
| 2 | How green is the Tory party ? |
| 3 | May I say how welcome is the strong support that Great Britain has given to the Baltic states ? |
| 4 | But how deep-rooted was the Labour Party 's political growth ? |
| 5 | How fat was the fat boy ? |
| 6 | It is denoted by the capital letter H and defined by the following mathematical relationship : where U is the internal energy of the system and pV is the energy of the system due to the space it occupies . |
| 7 | In this case , the work w done by a system is given by where P is the external pressure and V the change in volume . |
| 8 | The resounding clash between two different cultures and legal systems can be seen in modern Malaysia , where the Torrens system — a relic of British colonial rule ( see Chapter 10 , p. 261 ) — exists in a country where Islam is the national religion . |
| 9 | It follows that is smallest when is unity , and then eqn ( 10.21 ) gives where N is the mean intensity . |
| 10 | The French writer V A Graicunas devised a formula to show how the number of possible relationships between members of an organisation increases geometrically in proportion to the number of members : where N is the total number of possible relationships and n is the number of members . |
| 11 | where n is the osmotic pressure , V is the volume of solution , n is the amount of solute in moles , T is the absolute temperature and R is the molar gas constant . |
| 12 | N(63,3) 55 166 N(63,4) 0.8 7.2 where N is the expected number of alignments and c is the radius of the sites on the map . |
| 13 | De Vito treats Hoffa as a tragic American hero but , despite the possibilities of a Godfather-like plot , there is a hole at the centre of the film where scriptwriter David Mamet has failed to supply a reason why Hoffa was the exceptional man he undoubtedly was . |
| 14 | In the USA where labour was the scarce resource , it was the process of mechanisation first with animal and later tractor motive power that facilitated the expansion of agricultural production and productivity by increasing the area operated per worker : while in Japan where land was the scarce resource , it was progress in biological technologies leading to increased responses by varieties of paddy to higher levels of fertiliser application . |
| 15 | Since the expected rate of inflation is zero , the appropriate Phillips curve is the original one depicted by A in Fig. 6.4 : the economy is at point D where NUP is the natural unemployment percentage . |
| 16 | This was why religion was the one subject required by British law to be taught in schools . |
| 17 | The solution of Einstein 's equation in this case is the Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation : where M is the total mass given by . |
| 18 | The flux linking phases A and B of a motor with p rotor teeth can be expressed as : where M is the maximum flux linking each winding . |
| 19 | Irving Fisher 's version of the quantity theory can be explained in terms of the following ‘ equation of exchange ’ : where M is the nominal stock of money in circulation and V is the transactions velocity of circulation of money ( that is , the average number of times the given quantity of money changes hands in transactions ) ; P is the average price of all transactions and T is the number of transactions that take place during the time period . |
| 20 | To show this , consider the following version of the quantity theory : where M is the nominal money supply , V is the income velocity of circulation and PY is the money value of national income . |
| 21 | In Nicholson 's case , however , it is more interesting and quite important to characterize the age in which he found fame — the drug infested anti-establishment set of the Vietnam era — as one of the advance guard leading the underground movements of the Sixties to the surface of American life in a cloud of head-spinning smoke , at a time when marijuana was the best cash crop in Southern California . |
| 22 | The result is a fairly large volume between the coils of almost uniform field strength given by : where r is the mean radius of the coils in meters , N is the number of turns in each coil and I is the current flowing in the coil in amperes . |
| 23 | Tailing a futures position means that it is reduced by multiplying the initial position by unc each day , where r is the riskless interest rate over the period to delivery . |
| 24 | The increase in the equilibrium level of national income following an increase in government spending ( in a closed economy with lump-sum taxes only ) is where b is the marginal propensity to consume . |
| 25 | There are emerging , however , a few bona fide cases where licensing is the only means of making any sales and where it is in our general interest to be in a market in anticipation of that market situation easing at a later date . |
| 26 | There is another reason why texts are the natural focus for our study : within a text it is possible to be more specific about how language serves a particular artistic function . |
| 27 | In areas where farmsteads are the normal form of settlement the pattern is very dense on good land , such as at Hanbury in Worcestershire , and less dense in upland areas such as Exmoor and Dartmoor . |
| 28 | Formally , if where GR is the relaxed modulus and the relaxation time , then Alfrey writes This is derived quite simply by substituting a step function for exp ( ) in the expression for G(t) above . |
| 29 | The reason for interest in these diseases stems from the massive emigration from countries where they are endemic to others where syphilis is the only or principal treponemal infection . |
| 30 | The only time one animal pushes out the other is when fish is the only food , and then it 's the mink that loses . |