Example sentences of "how [adv] it [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stiffened in his arms , saw the turmoil in his eyes and panicked as she sensed how little it would take to make her surrender . |
| 2 | That 's a shame , for it is obvious , just from how eagerly it will push its tail out if you cut the power , that the chassis has a rare agility . |
| 3 | The truth had to be reported , no matter how much it might hurt her to do so . |
| 4 | I have said nothing to anyone so far because I have never been quite sure how much it might affect Mr. Andrew . |
| 5 | The regional nomarch , or prefect , tells each local office how much it ought to collect in the year ( the national total being what the government reckons the budget needs ) . |
| 6 | Make sure you see it in the shop properly erected and test it out by rocking it back and forth ( as a toddler would ) to see how much it would stand before falling over . |
| 7 | He wondered how much it would cost to buy her for half an hour . |
| 8 | She was quiet and calm , and did n't talk much ( I was supposed to do the talking ) and she said she thought I should come every week , and told me how much it would cost . |
| 9 | Can you imagine how much it would cost to extrapolate from these screen sizes to a wall-sized panel ? |
| 10 | A lot of them were in no fit state to know if work needed to be done on their homes or how much it would cost them . ’ |
| 11 | Pamela had nearly had a heart attack when she 'd looked at this year 's brochure and seen how much it would cost . |
| 12 | ‘ But you might like to know what 's possible , and how much it would cost ? ’ |
| 13 | If we could be sure that everyone in the community was equally generous , it might be possible to finance social services by announcing how much it would cost to run the Health Service per head in the coming year and then leave it to individuals to post an appropriate sum to their local health authority . |
| 14 | Imagine how much it would cost to advertise on every page of every newspaper in Scotland . |
| 15 | The Government 's argument is always based on how much it would cost to implement a local income tax system . |
| 16 | I am often upset when people approach British Rail on the safety issue and ask how much it would cost to do the job properly . |
| 17 | The pre-1974 local authority budget cycle was like this : each committee of a local council would discuss how much it would need to spend in the coming financial year , beginning in April . |
| 18 | ‘ If the knackers had bid for him I would have outbid him and kept him myself , I do n't care how much it would have cost , ’ she says . |
| 19 | The people at the table looked like beleaguered tourists in the kind of restaurants where people come and play violins in your ear , that is to say , horribly embarrassed and as if they were wondering how much it would take to make them go away . |
| 20 | Your neighbour really likes the tree and wants to know how much it would take to compensate you to leave the tree at its current size . |
| 21 | It went into great detail about how much it would take to start the colliery again and said that it would cost millions of pounds . |
| 22 | Didi judged whether a thing was good or bad by how much it would sell for . |
| 23 | Practically a tennis dress , Flavia noted with approval , having no idea who had made it , nor indeed that it was made , nor how much it must have cost . |
| 24 | As part of the process , the BBC also commissioned a confidential report to show how much it could make from broadcasting commercials to supplement the licence fee . |
| 25 | Knowing the amount of shelf space available helps the retailer to work out how much profit each area of shelving is making — and how much it could make . |
| 26 | An interesting idea — until you work out how much it could cost . |
| 27 | This one was rough , knowing how tough the female body had to be , how much it could take . |
| 28 | Nobody yet knows how much it can control . |
| 29 | A local authority is accountable either to the local electorate for the poll tax that it sets or to the Secretary of State because he decides how much it can spend . |
| 30 | Once you have decided how much you wish to borrow , look at the repayment tables to see how much it will cost . |