Example sentences of "[prep] what extent [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the task of Philosophy to confront questions which are posed in a variety of areas , to consider to what extent their answers are to be found in such subjects as Mathematics , Physical Science , Sociology , Literary Studies or Religion , and to determine how else they might be answered — where these can furnish no complete answers . |
| 2 | Often , the manufacturers do not even know to what extent their equipment will stand up to RFI . |
| 3 | Here , too , there are debates over what mechanisms underlie the long cycles and to what extent their causes are internal to the capitalist system or derive from external factors . |
| 4 | To what extent her children collaborate on the photographic image is impossible to know . |
| 5 | It remains to be seen to what extent they can be applied to social work . |
| 6 | There is no doubt that odours do pose a problem for environmental health but to what extent they affect the health of an individual exposed to an odour is difficult to say with any precision . |
| 7 | Second , since intervention is often directed at the areas of relative weakness in a child 's linguistic abilities , it may be helpful to identify what these are and to what extent they are likely to impair the child 's ability to communicate in a variety of settings . |
| 8 | To what extent they provided substitutable labour for older , skilled workers is another , unresearched , question ; but , in general , interest in older workers as a source of labour and in the effects of their work and retirement status on their own health and that of the national economy waned . |
| 9 | This raises issues about the conditions of employment within such work and to what extent they are associated with exploitation and vulnerability . |
| 10 | It also provides the context in which to consider both the claim that for the later Foucault knowledge is absolutely determined , leaving him in the impossible situation of requiring something outside this for any prospect of critique , as well as the question of exactly how power and resistance are interdependent and to what extent they are separable . |
| 11 | Moreover , there is no room here to explore the comments further , to probe the reasoning behind them or to see to what extent they represent a wider consensus . |
| 12 | To what extent they are affected , and whether this makes them dependent upon forces that are beyond their control in the way they exercise their discretion , as opposed to being ‘ free agents ’ and therefore capable of choosing to follow a different policy in the light of changing circumstances , is the subject of this section . |
| 13 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |
| 14 | It 'll be necessary for all of us to go back and look at those very very carefully and to think to what extent they address the kinds of problems that we can actually see developing , the kinds of things which we are fighting our way away from in the statutory services and yet might find that they are growing in an uncontrolled way in the development of the private sector . |
| 15 | It is not clear how far these princes of the eastern Saxons were operating in Kent on their own initiative or to what extent they were under Aethelred 's control . |
| 16 | We need to know who the members of assemblies actually represent and to what extent they are able to investigate and influence executive actions . |
| 17 | To what extent they are under a legal obligation to do so will be the subject of the following section . |
| 18 | We shall have to ask ourselves in the next lecture to what extent they succeeded with so little Latin at their disposal . |
| 19 | It is , though , not entirely clear to what extent they were liable for tax collection and assessment . |
| 20 | I find this mode of evaluation very important because it allows me to see how the child is thinking , and to what extent they are thinking about problems they are being presented with , whether it 's shallowly , or whether they are actually going into it in some depth . |
| 21 | The programme tests the stability of school effects over time , and considers to what extent they are related to measured differences in processes within schools or resource inputs to schools . |
| 22 | The point at issue is not whether a corporation and its practices are foreign , but to what extent they are transnational . |
| 23 | Let us take some examples of Third World bourgeoisies and see to what extent they confirm or refute the emergence of a transnational capitalist class . |
| 24 | We have now some thought-out sense of a general plan of campaign based on decisions about whether ( and how much ) we stick to subjects , and to what extent we integrate . |
| 25 | I 'm not sure to what extent we in Lincolnshire will have to take the Local Government Staff Commission seriously . |
| 26 | To what extent its reproductive strategies emphasize such altruism depends on the pay-off of such strategies in terms of inclusive fitness . |
| 27 | However , although the results of validity generalisation studies are impressive and constitute a strong argument in favour of using ability tests for personnel selection , it has yet to be seen to what extent its conclusions will be taken up by practitioners in the field . |
| 28 | Before setting out the law , it is important to discover to what extent there exists any unifying principle or premiss which draws together the individual legal rules . |
| 29 | At each stage , LARSP seeks to provide a means of establishing how far the child 's utterances are consistent with normal development , and to what extent there are gaps in the child 's understanding of grammar or evidence of abnormal constructions , which might impair subsequent developmental progress . |
| 30 | Given the constraints placed upon officials by formal rules and regulations we may wonder to what extent there is the opportunity for officials to express personal qualities . |