Example sentences of "how well [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Edna enlarged upon how well Karen had done at college , how , although she was the youngest in her family , she was always being called upon whenever she was at home to help out with other people 's children , how she had passed her driving test at the first attempt .
2 Also , it is difficult to know how well Rank 's negotiating position would have held up after cinema admissions had started their precipitate decline in the mid-1950s .
3 They both convey information from which the hearer could work out how well B got on with semantics that week .
4 However , [ 15b ] is less direct than [ 15c ] in the sense that the hearer would have to derive the contextual implication conveyed explicitly in [ 15c ] in order to establish how well B got on .
5 But Phoebe had felt a harsh jealousy that she did not like in herself when she realised how well Lisa and Rachel got on : she did not want that .
6 H er how well cost effective
7 We shall start by confirming that sexual behaviour does indeed ensure that mates are of the correct species , and then see how well Darwin 's theory , modified and tested by recent work , can explain the full variety of sexual behaviour in animals both during courtship and , later , in parental care .
8 Looking at them , she experienced a curious sense of exclusion ; she wondered who the woman was ; she wondered how well Giles knew her .
9 Skipper Michael believes it 's too early to say how well Strabane will perform this year but he insists confidence is high .
10 Elsa Lawson , from Newton Aycliffe , who helped organise the event , said it was a mark of how well Mrs Harding knew the people involved that it was impossible to keep the presentation a secret .
11 Of course , the real crux of the matter is the question of how well people are able to balance against one another several different sets of figures relating to credit cost .
12 But in teaching , where the qualities of relationship and self-presentation are vital determinants of how and how well people do their jobs , one 's entire professional life is illuminated and coloured by what one , wittingly or unwittingly , believes and values .
13 The project will examine how well people can use their judgement to forecast the future behaviour of a system ( eg. a business , economy or traffic system ) on the basis of a series of observations that characterize its past behaviour .
14 The main research questions concern how forecasting performance depends on the statistical nature of the series , what psychological processes underlie that performance , how well people can assess the quality of their forecasts and whether forecasting skill can be learned or trained .
15 Much of DEC 's future success , it estimates , rests with how well NT does in the market and whether NT ISVs will be willing to write to Alpha machines as well as Intel and MIPS .
16 What exactly SunSelect will do with NT remains to be seen , dependent in some ways on how well NT penetrates the market .
17 After this virtuoso shot , the rest of the film is disappointing , often silly , but I remember thinking how well Candice Riberon handled the rather artificial dialogue .
18 For a moment Montgomery pondered how well Toby Latimer would have got on with Brian Jackson .
19 After he had left the office his senior colleague observed with undisguised admiration how well Fred knew his district and how valuable it was for an officer to have such knowledge at his fingertips .
20 I had not realized how well Otto knew the area .
21 Still , if Brahms knew his Rheinberger , what this CD makes clear is how well Rheinberger knew his Brahms , who stands over theses String Quartets , as Beethoven did over the young Brahms himself , only much more obviously : there are echoes of Brahms in the textures , the themes , the passage-work , the construction .
22 Look how well Charles and I fit into our own quarter of it ! ’
23 It is structured so that LWT 's managers will end up with between 5 per cent and 15 per cent of the new company , depending on how well LWT performs in the meantime , which they will pay for in 1993-94 at today 's prices .
24 It was marvellous how well Sien coped with his peculiarities of temper , as he called them .
25 This served to identify the criteria important to clients in the provision of accountancy services and determine how well Ernst & Young were meeting them .
26 You can probably find things to say about how well George and Marie have gone about co-ordinating their marketing , financial and personnel activities , and you could even ask yourself whether they might not have been wiser to expand ( if that is what they still want to do ) in a different direction altogether .
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