Example sentences of "how [adj] it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | How pleasant it is to sit on the cliffs of Dover and watch the waves rolling in . |
| 4 | I 've often commented how pleasant it is to serve ch'a from such bowls . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | How pleasant it is to have money , heigh ho ! |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | No matter how unpleasant it is to damage another human being , fighting is sometimes still a vital part of self-preservation . |
| 10 | The speedy ‘ wash-out ’ effect that set in showed clearly how unrealistic it is to expect the developmental course to be changed when just one period is singled out for attention and no effort is made to follow up that experience and integrate it in an individual 's total life pattern . |
| 11 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You can imagine what loud sneezes did to Dawn 's nervous system and how dangerous it is to have a playful two-year-old near a very jumpy bird of prey ! |
| 14 | How sad it is to behold how little importance life has for nature , these myriads of creatures called into being only to be immediately destroyed . " |
| 15 | And , it just shows you how easy it is to leave signs for the thief to tell him that we 're out . |
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| 17 | Another point to look out for is how easy it is to merge names and addresses from the database into a document . |
| 18 | We see immediately how easy it is to use them either positively or negatively , for beauty and life or for ugliness and death . |
| 19 | Most Creation 6 users know how easy it is to use colour and colour variations when designing on the screen . |
| 20 | How easy it is to use |
| 21 | How easy it is to use |
| 22 | At the end of the day , the right keycard system choice will depend not only on technololgy , its ability to adapt to the specific application and how easy it is to use , but on the reliability and the pricing of the product , and just as important , on the suppliers and their ability to provide international service and support . |
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| 24 | How easy it is to give children the wrong idea ! |
| 25 | The quantitative and qualitative analyses of teacher-pupil interaction showed how vital a part it can play in children 's learning , yet how easy it is to waste the very limited time teachers have to interact with each child . |
| 26 | Experiments have been performed to investigate , at different times of the day and night , how easy it is to fall asleep , how likely it is to wake up spontaneously , and how long volunteers can stay asleep . |
| 27 | After the passage of nearly half a century , how easy it is to criticise the decision taken by a general in the midst of a most desperate battle . |
| 28 | How easy it is to let the seven-days-a-week routine become drudgery , be overwhelmed by work unfinished , and to lose sight of the original aim . |
| 29 | At least one well-documented zodiac has now been claimed by its author to be a conscious fabrication , and the astrologer John Addey has shown how easy it is to ascribe the characteristics of the signs of the zodiac to places chosen at random , in his humorous example of the Cheam Zodiac . |
| 30 | Just think how tangled up we are with pigs , how we love to hate ourselves as pigs , and how easy it is to turn a pig into a person . |