Example sentences of "[v-ing] how much " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Perhaps unnerved by the suddenness of his summons to the Prime Minister and the vigour of Palmerston 's attack , Scott felt that his case had to be presented in a ‘ more consecutive manner ’ , and on 23rd July , 1859 , he wrote a long letter to Palmerston explaining how much effort he had put into the design and what a loss it would be to the country if it was not adopted . |
| 2 | Not because it 's feeding everyone , if you look closely , what it 's probably doing is checking how much food is in their gullets . |
| 3 | Mr Robinson 's counsel , Kieran May , had told the judge that the MoD admitted liability for the purposes of the action , but was disputing how much should be awarded . |
| 4 | He could n't help noticing how much she was being affected ; it was a sign , he supposed , of how she 'd come to consider the valley her home and its people her own . |
| 5 | ‘ It has n't cracked the shell , ’ said another , ‘ probably because people see the long list of issues covered and think , ‘ oh yes , and if they find a load of things that they say need addressing how much is it going to cost ? ’ |
| 6 | The argument goes that such a compilation report would require some work to be carried out , but the problem of defining how much work would create insurmountable difficulties . |
| 7 | I can well believe that many Labour supporters changed their minds on polling day after being terrified by newspaper ads warning how much extra tax they would pay under Kinnock ? |
| 8 | Because most of the water system is not metered , there is a fair amount of guesswork involved in establishing how much water is lost . |
| 9 | This last piece of information was particularly important for establishing how much territory an increasing tiger population in any area would need . |
| 10 | Perfect information is usually not practicable but the concept is useful in establishing how much can be paid for whatever additional information is available . |
| 11 | Perfect information is usually not practicable but the concept is useful in establishing how much can be paid for whatever additional information is available . |
| 12 | SCIENTISTS from the General Electric Company in New York have come up with a way of measuring how much charge is left in a lead-acid battery . |
| 13 | He measured their distance by charting the galaxy 's spectrum , and measuring how much the wavelengths are stretched by the expansion of the Universe — in other words , how far the spectral lines are ‘ red shifted ’ along the spectrum . |
| 14 | Please do not be concerned about measuring how much NI has done over the years ; it is not easy to quantify the awareness , understanding and other benefits your publication has brought to the children of the Third World . |
| 15 | There was no point in measuring how much was too much . |
| 16 | The only reliable way to calculate how much you are actually having is to keep a diary for a week , noting how much you drink , where you drink it and with whom . |
| 17 | She ran frantically back , splashing through the scummy water , stumbling , not caring how much noise she made , and plunged into the darkness of the right-hand tunnel , feeling her way along the walls . |
| 18 | He smashed her cut-glass vase against the wall , not caring how much noise he made . |
| 19 | She tried , not caring how much pain it cost her . |
| 20 | Each authority has its own ways of deciding how much , if anything , you will have to pay . |
| 21 | Everyone has faced the embarrassing dilemma of deciding how much extra to give a waiter , hairdresser or taxi-driver . |
| 22 | One of the problems of deciding how much of a person 's temperament is inherited is due to the fact that babies are usually brought up in an environment of both parents , or at least more than on individual , and that they take a while to grow and show many personality characteristics . |
| 23 | In deciding how much profit he wants to make on each item , and how much to mark up his prices , the retailer needs to consider many of the factors we looked at in Section 7 — the socioeconomics of the area , the needs of the typical customer , the competition , and so on . |
| 24 | Tax is not deducted from National Insurance retirement pensions , but they are taken into account when deciding how much tax is to be paid on the elderly person 's income as a whole . |
| 25 | There are rules for deciding how much is taxable , and these should be explained to her by the insurance company with which she is dealing . |
| 26 | Nobody would claim that an audit is a perfect process : it is a snapshot at a moment in time , with the client often deciding how much light is to be let into the exposure . |
| 27 | Deciding how much money each department will get calls for tough decisions . |
| 28 | Those who could use the results of research also face the problem of deciding how much confidence they can place in a study . |
| 29 | Hence , I may have great difficulty in answering a relatively simple question like ‘ Why do you put so much energy into your career ? ’ and I would have even more difficulty in deciding how much energy 1 should put into my career and how much into my family . |
| 30 | Of course , deciding how much information to obtain , given the cost in time and money of acquiring it , in itself demands the exercise of judgment . |