Example sentences of "how [adj] it [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must not say no , must not reveal how absurd it was to ‘ take ’ tea in a ‘ drawing ’ room . |
| 2 | Er , nobody 's mentioned the religious bias yet , and I do n't know how strong it is in Edinburgh , but in , in Glasgow it is and if people are religiously biased they are ve , very often biased a about other things and I da , I think people should adopt an attitude of live and let live ! |
| 3 | He could see how hopeless it was for her . |
| 4 | Why do n't I do the first half and you have an early night , and I 'll wake you at two o'clock ? ’ , knowing full well how awful it is to be woken out of a deep sleep at 2am to start work . |
| 5 | Recognize anger and see how destructive it is to you and to others around you , including those who love you and whom you love , Then you will want to do something about it . |
| 6 | Dot thought how strange it was to be able to recognize a person 's dog even when the person was n't there , and then to know the dog 's name . |
| 7 | She remembered the bride of one year , alight with the happiness of those early celebrations when the Grand Duke had granted the first liberties , and thought how strange it was for an English woman to be so mad with joy . |
| 8 | ‘ People still write about how strange it was for me to be with someone like Catherine , ’ he says . |
| 9 | The noise swelled again , now enlarged by people gabbling about how exciting it was at Fif 's , and was n't that gorgeous man the famous Gharr , and who was the sexy little cat-person with him , and so on . |
| 10 | ‘ I should have thought anyone with a grain of sensitivity would realise how painful it is for all of us to have this all raked up again . |
| 11 | If the meme is a scientific idea , its spread will depend on how acceptable it is to the population of individual scientists ; a rough measure of its survival value could be obtained by counting the number of times it is referred to in successive years in scientific journals . |
| 12 | As its critic Richard Grove had pointed out , the original plan was for the trees to live much longer ( and become more valuable timber ) , only the Commission had badly underestimated how windy it was in the British Isles , and the Sitka spruce suffered badly from ‘ wind-blow ’ , which stressed the timber and made sure that the trees would never reach the grand dimensions they do in their native temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest . |
| 13 | At first I thought how generous it was of Émile to bother about Jean-Claude at all . |
| 14 | And it also tells me how high it is in the sky . |
| 15 | Christian preachers could declare how wrong it was for an individual to be dominated by another so as to be his legal property , and to be bought for much less than the rich would give for a racehorse . |
| 16 | Frankly , having spent two days looking at how different it is for Nirvana right now — or rather , how it was six weeks ago — I found it difficult not to . |
| 17 | So we might say , Well our overall confidence is two but our relative confidence which is saying how different it is from everything else is only one . |
| 18 | How different it was in the Star Zoo ! |
| 19 | You know as well as I do how dangerous it is for a woman alone on the roads — any pervert could pick you up ! ’ |
| 20 | The theoretical model , developed by Maynard Smith and Reichert to explain what happens , also requires that the behaviour of each individual at each stage of escalation indicates how serious it is about continuing . |
| 21 | Okay to say how similar it is to one thing to another . |
| 22 | In few cases was the curriculum criticized adversely , but in one or two cases a particular course was questioned in terms of how appropriate it was for the pupils , or because an aspect of the curriculum was underdeveloped . |
| 23 | The important thing to note about this example is just how favourable it is to the general natural law case which Finnis , I take it , is at pains to defend . |
| 24 | Just how consistent it is with the prevailing relationship of disabled people to our able-bodied society comes clear when you look at some of the many questions which can be raised . |
| 25 | Kenneth Clarke appears above us , saying how sad it is about Chris Patten . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sure you know , Inspector , how impossible it is for even the most committed clergy to avoid incurring — not to put too fine a point on it — hatred . |
| 27 | Now you can see how easy it is with the numbers to make mistakes especially if you 're multiplying by tens or hundreds or thousands or looking at , trying to just look at a bit of it , oh that 's just , oh hang on is that seven or is that seventeen ? |
| 28 | Reading or hearing of other pilots ' experiences emphasises how easy it is for even seasoned pilots to make mistakes . |
| 29 | It is frightening how dependent upon drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills . |
| 30 | It is surprising how easy it is for businessmen to assume that other nationalities will react in exactly the same way as they themselves do . |