Example sentences of "extent that [pers pn] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only to the extent that we are becoming aware of the mercies of God . |
| 2 | In some cases we might be happy for courts to do the weighing exercise involved and , to the extent that we are , we could have a ‘ common law ’ of public law compensation . |
| 3 | Chief executive Bill Cockburn said that despite the recession Royal Mail had increased ‘ efficiency and productivity to such an extent that we are able to share this success with our customers ’ . |
| 4 | The people over whom governments have authority , the kind of considerations which their instructions pre-empt and the areas of activities over which they have authority are all , to the extent that they are determined by the normal justification thesis , less extensive than the claims made by governments and by the law . |
| 5 | I will engage in these subversive activities either only to the extent that they are lawful , or where the risk to the reputation of my university is overshadowed by the importance of my revolutionary activities . |
| 6 | The degradation of many soils such as those in East Anglia , England , to the extent that they are scarcely more than a physical retention medium for chemical fertiliser and moisture ( Kirkby 1980 ) , does not have the same social and economic impact as degradation of soils where the land users do not have , and may be predicted not to have in the future , the resources to make good the degradation by the application of massive doses of fertiliser ( see also Heathcote 1980 , Rennie 1982 ) . |
| 7 | Estimates of the extent of desertification vary ; the Gaia atlas of planet management ( Myers 1985 ) , for example , suggests that c. 10 per cent of the 700 million people that inhabit the arid and semi-arid zones are living in areas that are becoming impoverished and that c. 12 million ha of land are degraded annually to such an extent that they are agriculturally unproductive . |
| 8 | For example , Goreau and de Mello ( 1988 ) have shown that deforestation in Amazonia has appreciably altered the fluxes of carbon dioxide , nitrous oxide and methane from denuded soils to such an extent that they are likely to exacerbate the greenhouse effect , and thus mitigating measures should be undertaken which involve rainforest conservation as well as controls on combustion sources . |
| 9 | These people are afraid of anger to such an extent that they are dishonest . |
| 10 | The primary thrust of the Convention is to ensure that human rights are respected in the domestic laws of states parties or , to the extent that they are not and that breaches occur , that such breaches should be remedied by the state in question . |
| 11 | Choices of ends , as of means , are debatable in terms of public tests ( of whether things are in fact as the agent imagines them , whether his reactions as observed in his behaviour are as he feels them to be ) , but can take account of public observations only to the extent that they are subjectively confirmed . |
| 12 | As regards industrial members , to the extent that they are fee-paying clients , their interests and those of the practising members are likely to converge : they can , if they wish , elect for a voluntary audit , if this is needed for shareholders , lenders or creditors . |
| 13 | ‘ If you ask the players to perform to the extent that they are expected to entertain the public , they you must pay them as entertainers ’ , was the way former Ireland coach Jimmy Davidson summed up the situation . |
| 14 | To the extent that they are spontaneously enthusiastic about the story , can easily make it their own and see implications for their own practice , and ask me back , I reckon I have been successful . |
| 15 | Kenny makes a similar point when arguing that we can talk of animal wants only to the extent that they are restricted to their conscious needs . |
| 16 | Things matter to the extent that they are significantly new in terms of official Catholic teaching ; that is to say , in comparison with papal teaching or the major textbooks of approved theology of the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 17 | These slow waves pervade the head to the extent that they are also picked up by the EOG electrodes , just as K complexes are . |
| 18 | While for some this is a welcome development , for many others this structural change in the labour market reduces the income and the company welfare benefits of those concerned to such an extent that they are made inferior to their colleagues in the primary labour market . |
| 19 | It can therefore be argued that biological differences become biological inequalities only to the extent that they are defined as such . |
| 20 | It is common ground that any power to make the order sought must be found in the Act , since the English courts have no inherent jurisdiction to act in aid of a foreign court and , as a matter of English domestic law , treaties only take effect as part of that law to the extent that they are incorporated by statute , with or without modification . |
| 21 | It has been estimated the Sweden has 65,000 wells , that is 15–20 per cent of all private wells , which are acidified to the extent that they are eligible to receive government grants to help pay for the cost of restoring water quality . |
| 22 | In fact , Genette 's relational approach means that none of these aspects of narrative can be conceived of as independent units : Consequently ‘ analysis of narrative will thus be for [ him ] essentially a study of the relationships between narrative and story , between narrative and narrating , and ( to the extent that they are inscribed in the narrative discourse ) between story and narrating ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 23 | … are we prepared to put our signature to a treaty which will erode the power and influence of Members of this House to such an extent that they are incapable of delivering the natural and legitimate aspirations of their constituents ? |
| 24 | One answer is that unions also provide other goods which are private to the extent that they are available only to union members . |
| 25 | To the extent that they are thus led to perform well this is obviously desirable ; the problem is that , in attempting to avoid noticeable mistakes , they ignore the costs that must be borne by the public . |
| 26 | To the extent that they are not , this is a matter for adjudication and not an amendment to the regulations . ’ |
| 27 | People without any political bias have given honest evidence and enabled the Select Committee to produce the report , which was a genuine effort to draw to the attention of the Government their folly in running down the coal industry to the extent that they are planning to do . |
| 28 | Deferred taxation is provided using the liability method on all timing differences to the extent that they are expected to reverse in the foreseeable future . |
| 29 | To the extent that they are not , the CU effect is clearly picking up other influences . |
| 30 | Pumping operations by Fisons plc , one of the main peat extraction companies , have recently been accelerated , to the extent that they are threatening to damage the site beyond repair . |