Example sentences of "extent [conj] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protracted effects of steam , heat and natural decay had weakened the structure to such an extent that it was beyond saving . |
| 2 | The Reform Act 1832 had , however , widened the franchise to such an extent that it was no longer feasible to ensure Parliament 's compliance by filling the Commons with placemen . |
| 3 | Low-spirited , disappointed that she must forgo the festivities which always marked the twelfth day of Christmas , she wept copiously and bewailed her ill-fortune to such an extent that it was feared she would increase the severity of the illness . |
| 4 | It was about three weeks later when I happened to notice that the pupil of this eye had dilated to such an extent that it was now noticeable to everyone . |
| 5 | As a result the warbler increased in numbers until by 1988 the population had built to the extent that it was decided that some birds could be caught and transported to the island of Aride , some twelve kilometres north , which is managed by the UK-based Royal Society for Nature Conservation . |
| 6 | The emphasis on individualism that House ( 1978 ) observed prevented education in the UK ever being regarded as an agent of social reform to the extent that it was in the United States . |
| 7 | As also has been found for the other two scales , however , the inner city problem has become much more evident over the past decade since the deteriorating situation prompted central government to introduce more comprehensive powers in the 1978 Inner Urban Areas Act , to the extent that it was identified by the Prime Minister as the single most important challenge for the new Parliament after the 1987 General Election . |
| 8 | The party manifesto stressed the importance of the link within the UK to the extent that it was of paramount importance that any proposals made by the Constitutional Convention must be fully acceptable to the United Kingdom government and people . |
| 9 | By 1946 the requirements of the naval depot had reduced to such an extent that it was only necessary to provide a thrice-weekly service . |
| 10 | The Fao area was repaired to the extent that it was possible for loading to be resumed at a restored Mina al-Bakr terminal . |
| 11 | Over a five-year period Kiselev transformed the administration of the lands between the Pruth and the Danube to such an extent that it was to be hard , thereafter , for the sultan or outsiders to prevent the eventual emergence of an independent Romania . |
| 12 | With trading settlements and ports of call at Goa , the Cape and Lisbon , the Portuguese undermined the economy of the Mameluke Empire to such an extent that it was taken over by the Ottomans in 1517 . |
| 13 | As part of their representations on the 1981 Finance Bill , the Law Society recommended that income should not be " relevant income " to the extent that it was paid away to some person other than the recipient of the relevant benefit either before or after the receipt of the relevant benefit as it had by then ceased to be available as a source of funds out of which the relevant benefit could be paid . |
| 14 | But inspired by the experience of Jim Duffy at the back and battling Stainrod himself up front , the pattern of play changed dramatically during the final half hour , to the extent that it was the visitors who were forced to hang on , especially after Stainrod had forced goalkeeper Theo Snelders into an own-goal during the latter stages . |
| 15 | Much as I sympathise with the plaintiffs , it would , in my opinion , be extending the implications based on the maxim … to an unreasonable extent if it were held that what has been done in this case was a breach of an implied obligation . |