Example sentences of "how [adv] [vb mod] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How effective do you consider this means of presentation and how widely could it be applied to other discourse types ? |
| 2 | How effectively can they complain if services are not satisfactory ? |
| 3 | And we 'll try How long would we go in how far in one hour ? |
| 4 | And how long would we go in the last half hour ? |
| 5 | Or , to put it another way , how long would we have to wait before random chemical events on the planet , random thermal jostling of atoms and molecules , resulted in a self-replicating molecule ? |
| 6 | And , and you 'd , I 'd , you 'd say how long would we be and well we 'd come to er , you know , an agr |
| 7 | ‘ How long would they give Safranski ? ’ snarled Bonanza . |
| 8 | How long would they stay ? |
| 9 | How long would they all be going ? |
| 10 | My full interview seemed to go reasonably smoothly so at the end of it I asked how long would it take for my money to come through . |
| 11 | In the days when Romanians were still in a mood to tell jokes , they used to ask a rhetorical question : how long would it take for a Soviet expeditionary force to reach Bucharest from the Soviet border ? |
| 12 | How long would it take for selection to specify 10 8 base pairs ? |
| 13 | How long would it be , Sandison thought , before his hat resembled Maidstone 's — old , stained with sweat and with a brim destroyed by the constant folding and rolling it received in Maidstone 's small , tight , nervous hands . |
| 14 | How long would it be before her father came up ? |
| 15 | Roughly how long would it have taken , walking at 4 km per hour , to cross from the fields on one side to the fields on the other side ? |
| 16 | How long would it be , Carew wondered , before the Hacketts and the Merricks and the Townshends did the same ? |
| 17 | How long would it be , Jane demanded silently of the darkness , before she was able to speak of Rob or think of Rob and not weep inside her ? |
| 18 | ‘ Should the need arise , Captain , how long would it take you to contact the Pentagon ? ’ |
| 19 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 20 | But how long would it take ? |
| 21 | A thing that worried me all through the deliberations … was this : supposing we made all the right recommendations and supposing the Government gave effect to them in legislation , how long would it be before the judges turned everything upside down ? |
| 22 | How long would it take to build a whole waggon ? |
| 23 | How long would it take four men to do it ? |
| 24 | How long would it take six men ? |
| 25 | erm How long would it have taken five men ? |
| 26 | How long would it take to get there ? |
| 27 | And how long would it take |
| 28 | Joseph would be going back to the United States soon and would be beyond her gossip , but if Maurin convinced her of Joseph 's innocence , then how long would it be before she realized that he , too , had a strong financial motive for wanting the truth about the Durances kept secret ? |
| 29 | How long would it take them to get from Vine Street to here ? |
| 30 | How long would it take me to drive up there ? ’ |