Example sentences of "extent [prep] which children " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to find out the extent to which children are aware of differences between spoken and written language , of features that might pass muster in speech but not in the written word . |
| 2 | The extent to which children are thought about while housework is done is not only a reflection on housework 's fragmented quality ; it also signifies the basic difficulties which inhere in the combination of housewife and mother roles . |
| 3 | In summary , the questions in studies of more and less have revolved around three issues : ( a ) whether children have full or only partial lexical knowledge about the pertinent word meanings ; ( b ) the extent to which children rely on non-linguistic strategies in the absence of lexical information ( clearly children know none of the pertinent meanings at first for a domain , and several studies have documented the kinds of non-linguistic strategies they then rely on in responding to instructions — see Clark , 1973b , 1979,1980 ; Donaldson and McGarrigle , 1974 ) ; and ( c ) whether children observe the principle of Contrast . |
| 4 | The deductive marking experiment investigated the extent to which children take account of the deductive/empirical distinction in their use of language when they are cued into the deductive mode by the context . |
| 5 | The fundamental interest of Kenneth Goodman and the psycholinguists in miscue analysis is in the extent to which children bring sense to their reading . |
| 6 | Well it 's impossible at the moment , with the media coverage and the erm information about war and the situation in the Gulf , not to touch children , however careful the adults around them may be , and it 's very important for us as adults to not be so caught up , in our excitement perhaps even , about what 's going on and all the razzmatazz that may be attached to the sort of glory of whose ever side they may be on that we forget the extent to which children are very much affected by how they see the adults around them respond to what 's going on . |