Example sentences of "[prep] how [adj] it [is] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution .
2 It 's not a question of how good it is to recycle several tons , it would be better still not to produce it .
3 A demonstration of how easy it is to break into a car .
4 You can take erm of how much it 's gon na cost .
5 Now you do n't have to rely on this , because you can ring through to head office in the evening , or you can ring through your branch while that 's open , and get a computer quote over the phone , but actually find it quite useful if somebody asks me to be able to give them an idea of how much it 's going to cost them .
6 Darwin 's theory provides a classic example of how difficult it is to draw a sharp distinction between ‘ natural history ’ and ‘ biology ’ : the process of evolution must of necessity mediate between the reproductive process that maintains the population and the environment to which the population must adapt .
7 Today , wheelchair users are trying to raise awareness of how difficult it is to get around .
8 Today , wheelchair users are trying to raise awareness of how difficult it is to get around .
9 One social worker who had cared for her own mother for many y ears explains below how important it is to take on the role of carer for the right reasons :
10 Emphasize throughout how important it is to appreciate the " pointing towards " quality of religious language , gesture , behaviour and ritual .
11 This decision depends on how easy it is to convert the SoftBench environment with Alsys tools to other operating systems , although Walker recognises Alsys will have to provide standard interfaces like Motif and Open Look if it sticks with Ada World .
12 And we might ask a depending on how much it 's gon na be , ask , I du n no if Rogers still got his van or
13 Moreover the role of quantification depends on how necessary it is to prove one 's point .
14 Fresh of the ocean , the wind is bracing or literally breathtaking , depending on how hard it 's blowing .
15 No-one , though , should be under any illusions as to how difficult it is going to be .
16 I was struck by the fact that no one referred to how enjoyable it is to drink alcohol and that no one mentioned that in our culture it is absolutely normal to consume alcohol to excess on some occasions and that most people will have experienced the effects of over-indulgence at some time .
17 ‘ A lot of them write songs with thrashy noise guitars singing about how great it is to kill someone …
18 Coming from the Health Department , who should know something about how difficult it is to align health and age , it really takes the biscuit .
19 Be realistic about how difficult it is going to be .
20 And , as I stressed earlier , the props for such beliefs come from within the black community : black kids tell each other stories about how difficult it is to get a decent job if you are black and , in a self-fulfilling way , it does becomes difficult .
21 There are also concerns about how realistic it is to expect directors , let alone auditors , to confirm for one year ahead of the date the accounts are approved that their company will be a going concern .
22 I had hoped to be writing a birth report about how wonderful it is to use a large pool of warm water in labour .
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