Example sentences of "of how [adv] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for details of how well they had maintained their new figures or if , in fact , they had n't . |
| 2 | It was a measure of how well they had done that he even considered such an awful thing . |
| 3 | Items in the tests are not selected on the basis of how well they discriminate among students , i.e. they are not norm-referenced . |
| 4 | If the skirting is painted in a different colour to the walls , do n't forget to stick a smaller sample of the skirting colour next to the wall colour so you have an idea of how well they work together . |
| 5 | Callaghan 's mistake may have derived from his own inability to grasp the significance of media images irrespective of how closely they did or did not correlate with some other version of ‘ reality ’ . |
| 6 | The extent to which they try to run towards the red compared with the yellow is taken as a measure of how strongly they have been imprinted . |
| 7 | If Liz and Owen had n't had that accident , which brought us together to look after the twins , we might never have found each other again ! ’ she cried , feeling almost faint as she fell back on the pillows , hardly able to bear the thought of how narrowly they had averted a lifetime of unhappiness . |
| 8 | Employment Training should be opened up to unemployed people over 50 , irrespective of how long they have been out of work . |
| 9 | I think of what each group produced , not in terms of how far from a conclusion they were , but in terms of how much they had achieved . |
| 10 | Grazers have the enormous advantage that there is plenty of their favourite food available , all around them , stretching for as far as the eye can see and regrowing time and again regardless of how much they crop it . |
| 11 | Romanians are very well aware of how much they have inherited from the Ceauşescu regime and how difficult it is , with the best will in the world , to purge the moral degradation from their souls . |
| 12 | Details of how far they walked , how long it took them , when this was done and what sort of overnight accommodation they used , would be relevant to my research . |
| 13 | And then can you give us an account of how far they have proved accurate ? |
| 14 | PASS ( Programme Analysis of Service Systems ; Wolfensberger and Glenn , 1973 ) evaluates services in terms of how far they comply with appearances , practices and settings which would be valued by the rest of society . |