Example sentences of "[adv prt] how far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers will clash over how far they intend to pay for capital spending projects by freezing the pay of public sector workers like teachers , nurses and doctors , or limiting rises to two per cent . |
| 2 | Socialists differed among themselves over how far their party 's commitment to the Republic should go , some looking merely to strengthen ‘ bourgeois democracy ’ while others regarded the Republic as the anteroom to socialism . |
| 3 | Divided among themselves over how far to adhere to the traditional policies and how far to adapt to a changing foreign and domestic environment , the Bakufu 's members became incapable of decisive action . |
| 4 | Our mission is to find out how far they have advanced and in Which direction they are heading . |
| 5 | They use a sophisticated cost-benefit computer model to work out how far they should go in luring any given company with tax breaks or grants of land . |
| 6 | She could not work out how far away it was , but the shrill was enough to hammer into her skull like nails . |
| 7 | In order to help the patient learn to judge distances , you can practise crossing roads with him , pointing out how far away any oncoming traffic is , and telling the patient whether there is time to cross the road , and , if so , how much time you have to get across . |
| 8 | The principal aim seems to be to find out how far it can be extended . |
| 9 | I took him into the hangar where the kites were and stroked his uniform , I kissed his insignia , Then I found out how far his freckles went down , I got him so worked up he 'd have promised me anything to let him do it to me That was really how he saw it , it was something he wanted to do to a girl . |
| 10 | Moreover , studies of the spectra of the stars can tell us a great deal about their real luminosities , and hence about their distances ; once you know how powerful an object really is , and compare it with its apparent brilliancy , you can work out how far away it must be , provided that due allowance is made for complicating factors such as the absorption of light by material spread thinly through space . |
| 11 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 12 | Work out how far the cabin and the target and everything moved forward while the beam crossed from the gun to the target . |
| 13 | To find out how far , in time or distance , you are from NDB along a certain position line . |
| 14 | The project proposes to find out how far the thinking of these pupils can be advanced , over a period of two years , to give them access to concepts which hitherto they would not have had . |
| 15 | I take it that is a special bearing , I know she 's had people look at it , I 'm gon na try and suss out how far she 's got down that line as to having another source but I do n't think she has . |
| 16 | An important debate centres around how far the definition of what constitutes abuse criminalises the so-called abuser . |
| 17 | They speculated on how far it would have been necessary to travel to obtain the stone , and whether one could precisely locate its origin . |
| 18 | That erm it might be wise or advisable , I 'd be interested to hear your views Colin and others perhaps even council procedures , you know on , on how far you can go in checking out er because I mean , you know you get something which tells you what was happening three weeks ago . |
| 19 | In the absence of modern authority it is possible only to speculate about how far the above account of the law represents the position today . |