Example sentences of "how [adj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boswell amplifies in a way which casts a slightly different glow on the affair : he comments on how striking it was to hear all the aldermen of Aberdeen drinking Johnson's-health with much exclamation of the great man 's name . |
| 2 | Let him assume that she knows how annoying it is and does it to annoy — if you know your job he will not notice the immense improbability of the assumption . |
| 3 | Your otherwise excellent cover version album was sadly marred by a long speech detailing how annoying it is that the price of eggs has gone up in Narodny-Karabakh . |
| 4 | She must not say no , must not reveal how absurd it was to ‘ take ’ tea in a ‘ drawing ’ room . |
| 5 | Now that 's the big stretched can you , if you just put your finger on there you 'll see how sticky it is , can you feel it 's warm and sticky and |
| 6 | Loads of people did n't half tell the council how cruel it was . |
| 7 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 8 | In that little crucible of the theatre that story was demonstrated , that here were people of phenomenal talent , with an enormous amount to give , with the tremendous burning desire to express their feelings and their attitudes , and to the enhancement of other people 's lives , and how cruel it was that it was so few that got through . |
| 9 | How rich it is to hear the Scottish Labour leader impugn the integrity of the SNP when the integrity of Labour Party policies in the last year has been stretched so far as to be invisible . |
| 10 | That 's right , then you realise how little it is . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was fortunate that he had no inkling of how trying it was going to be . |
| 12 | You realise how subtle it is when you watch a beaver painstakingly placing a pole on its dam , being visibly dissatisfied with its position , removing it and tugging it into another , until it is at last convinced that it has been effectively deployed . |
| 13 | When she had finished she said to Piers , to hide her confusion , ‘ I — I always think how odd it is that turtle soup does n't taste of turtle . ’ |
| 14 | And as soon as I 'd said it I realised how odd it was , Kelly without a cigarette , without fiddling with the packet and dropping matches on the floor . |
| 15 | In the lift to his floor he thought how odd it was that taking a firm stand should make him feel so bad-tempered . |
| 16 | How refreshing it is that this year 's number one is Whitney Houston 's I Will Always Love You . |
| 17 | It seemed like a thousand years had lapsed since ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ and how refreshing it was , how exciting to place the record clumsily on the turntable for the first time to be faced with the full frontal body blow that is the title track . |
| 18 | The purpose of my writing is to say how refreshing it was to read Nigel Starmer-Smith 's well-balanced view on Wales ' performance in his November ‘ On the Air ’ column . |
| 19 | How refreshing it was to see ordinary , normal-looking dogs after all the fuss and pomposity of the so-called pedigree dogs at Crufts . |
| 20 | A note-form outline of the essay provides a clear conceptual structure , and offers you an overview , which — when inspected closely — should allow you to assess how coherent it is , and how clearly it moves to your conclusion . |
| 21 | Let's now look at the various ways in which you can improve the insulation of your home , giving each one a rating that indicates how cost-effective it is . |
| 22 | And how cost-effective it is . |
| 23 | To discover how cost-effective it was to sustain at home people who were judged likely to have been in an institution had it not been for the project 's services . |
| 24 | And certainly , when the Major sipped his , he was surprised at how palatable it was . |
| 25 | 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 ! |
| 26 | Find how strong it is . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't know how strong it is because as I say , erm most contracts of employment do include a provision that if somebody h has a driving licence and loses it and driving is part of their work , even if it 's only a minor part of their work , then the employer can erm dismiss . |
| 28 | I was just having a little experiment to see how it takes and how strong it is and I know what I 'm doing . |
| 29 | And I threw up , that 's how strong it is Joe ! |
| 30 | By poking about with a dissecting needle it was obvious that these little threads were very strong , exactly how strong it was difficult to say ( Plate 12 ) . |