Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adj] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aah 'll not wrap up 'ow grave it is , ’ he said heavily . |
| 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 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | How refreshing it is that this year 's number one is Whitney Houston 's I Will Always Love You . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And how cost-effective it is . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | Find how strong it is . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I was just having a little experiment to see how it takes and how strong it is and I know what I 'm doing . |
| 16 | And I threw up , that 's how strong it is Joe ! |
| 17 | A study of Ashton 's ways of using them , or of MacMillan 's , reveal how unnecessary it is to keep passing the arms through 1st position . |
| 18 | I am 17 years old and I know many people who enjoy ‘ real ’ traditional music — no matter what speed it is played at , or how loud it is . |
| 19 | Why do n't I do the first half and you have an early night , and I 'll wake you at two o'clock ? ’ , knowing full well how awful it is to be woken out of a deep sleep at 2am to start work . |
| 20 | How pleasant it is to sit on the cliffs of Dover and watch the waves rolling in . |
| 21 | But in the meantime how pleasant it is to find oneself arriving in the evening for the first time in some lively little English market town , where one can forget for a while the noisy onward march of science , and settle down to meditate upon the civilised past . |
| 22 | How pleasant it is to have money , heigh ho ! |
| 23 | I 've often commented how pleasant it is to serve ch'a from such bowls . |
| 24 | A rather convoluted verse , but how right it is ! |
| 25 | So that 's how prestigious it is like you know there . |
| 26 | I du n no how tall it is , but the Christmas tree outside the caff is blummin huge . |
| 27 | Looking back on it today , however , I perceive how dated it is ; but , in the 1930s it might just have excited interest , simply as illustrating one direction in which a Marxian might , in his disillusionment , turn . |
| 28 | Reacting to the death of a young man in custody , he said : ’ I personally wish to say how abhorrent it is to have to deal with children , because that is what Geoffrey was — a child in a penal setting — and under the conditions in which I have to run Feltham , for want of staff . ’ |
| 29 | Dates for this year were already booked but much work is going on in the background to see how possible it is to reduce the number of reunions and thereby enable members to meet more old friends . |
| 30 | depends how possible it is . |