Example sentences of "[Wh adv] many [noun pl] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many bombers had been brought down ? |
| 2 | Propaganda had given us indigestion , and reports of how many aeroplanes had been destroyed and how many ships had been sunk were becoming monotonous if not unbelievable . |
| 3 | The swan-white robes were not the possessions of single families but of the community , and every mother whose infant wore a robe made and sewed a tiny bow to the back of the garment , so that it might be recorded how many infants had been christened in it . |
| 4 | I asked him how many houses had been completed in 1991 , and I will tell him the answer . |
| 5 | I asked how many responses had been received because we knew , from the responses that we had received , that the vast majority of the people of Ayrshire are totally opposed to the opting out of Ayrshire South hospital . |
| 6 | At the Tour 's A.G.M. last year , I asked how many players had been fined that season for slow play . |
| 7 | Propaganda had given us indigestion , and reports of how many aeroplanes had been destroyed and how many ships had been sunk were becoming monotonous if not unbelievable . |
| 8 | If that were true , and she could n't believe it , how many butterflies had been killed , and how had the wings been put into the glass balls ? |
| 9 | Both were landless men who depended on being allowed to pasture their milk-cows on the water-meadows down at Ballechin , and as Cameron caught the drift of their intent talk and occasional sardonic laughter , he wondered again how many names had been put to faces during yesterday 's hurly-burly . |
| 10 | However , Mr Graham said the secretaries of state for energy and the environment would be fully aware of how many objections had been received concerning the scheme more than 7,000 . |
| 11 | Only four local authorities could state how many households had been housed into wheelchair or mobility adapted accommodation during the previous year , and five could say whether any such nominations had been made to housing associations . |