Example sentences of "to this extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this extent it is not especially helpful to see pubs as a category of buildings , but rather to keep a clear distinction in mind between interior and exterior . |
| 2 | To this extent and in this way the English distrust of the professional writer can and must be vindicated . |
| 3 | To this extent the region was actually encouraging the formation of richer peasant strata at the expense of the poorer . |
| 4 | Without plunging into the moral and intellectual ‘ deep end ’ of the arguments about retribution , I suspect there is a relationship of cause and effect between the state of opinion and the incidence of crime , and further , that the state of opinion and the penalties of the law are interrelated — at least to this extent , that , other things being the same , milder penalties generally imply less reprobation . |
| 5 | Still , we have to this extent moved on , that not merely are we , in the context of this phenomenon , allowed to refer to the facts but we are actually now allowed to criticise those who suppress the facts . |
| 6 | To this extent , Tolkien argued , ‘ doctrines ’ which are extracted from the ‘ myth ’ are less true than the ‘ myth ’ itself . |
| 7 | To this extent , the Council is literally unaccountable to anyone , even where individual governments remain — in theory — answerable to their national Parliaments . |
| 8 | To this extent , Locke agrees with the scholastic , Thomas Sergeant , that ‘ the way of experiments can not be a true method to science ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I thoroughly disagreed with him on numerous issues , ’ said Teller , ‘ to this extent I would like to see the vital interests of this country in hands which I understand better and therefore trust more . ’ |
| 10 | It is safe to say that the entire nation is filled with a believing trust in the Führer such as has never before existed to this extent . |
| 11 | Mercifully the number of people who suffer to this extent is small and their need for help is usually recognized by those with whom they come into contact . |
| 12 | Nature sustains our feeble reason , and prevents it raving to this extent . |
| 13 | To this extent the theory can be seen as incorporating the central feature of Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) interpretation of the phenomenon — the suggestion that further learning proceeds slowly about a stimulus that has formed associations with its antecedents . |
| 14 | To this extent the context-specificity of latent inhibition is to be interpreted as a retrieval phenomenon . |
| 15 | The associative learning that goes on during such pre-exposure will be dependent upon the context in which training occurs , and to this extent latent inhibition will be attenuated by a change of context . |
| 16 | To this extent , then , he finds that the law will go along with the medical determination . |
| 17 | To this extent Great Britain is an ‘ advanced ’ country . |
| 18 | To this extent , in establishing the service , certain governmental and educational authorities were signalling with all the pomp and circumstance of legislation that youth did constitute a separate and , in important respects , an immature source of labour which required special treatment . |
| 19 | There is a natural logic to such a structure in that management can reasonably be said to be about making the best use of the resources available and , to this extent , is a normal part of the clinical process . |
| 20 | To this extent , Judaism could be said to have failed , and failed tragically . |
| 21 | The SE would be a hybrid ( and to this extent some of the original purpose of the SE has been lost ) ; it would be incorporated in a particular Member State , whose domestic laws would govern certain aspects of its operations ( e.g. insolvency ) , but its registered office could be transferred to another Member State . |
| 22 | Most modern , written , constitutions seek not merely to set up and define the main organs of the state and to distribute public power amongst them , but also to state a range of constitutional guarantees for the subject , frequently limiting the power of organs of the state to this extent . |
| 23 | This clearly represents a reduction in the autonomy of each worker and , to this extent , a reduction in the quality of their experience of work . |
| 24 | For anyone to destroy themselves to this extent , it must be a manifestation of a profound lack of love . |
| 25 | To this extent , the pay-off to religious belief is in earthly coin . |
| 26 | So why do we lie to this extent ? |
| 27 | To this extent it is a form of natural law theory ; nearest to Fuller 's procedural form of natural law ( Fuller , 1969 ) . |
| 28 | They differ from connotative terms like ‘ metal ’ — and to this extent ‘ are in the same condition as proper names ’ — in that whereas to the question , ‘ What are the things the resemblance to which you mark by calling this thing a ‘ metal ’ ? ’ the answer , ‘ Things of which it is true that their oxide dissolved in water yields an alkaline solution ’ can be given ; to the question , ‘ What are the things the resemblance to which you mark by calling this sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ ? ’ the only answer that can be given is , ‘ Sensations to which I have given the name ‘ a sensation of white ’ ’ , an answer that does not ‘ unfold the signification of this class of names ’ . |
| 29 | In themselves they were by no means new — they were indeed centuries old — but they constituted a direct challenge to the rather abstract and clear-cut penal theory which was much subscribed to on both sides of the Atlantic , and to this extent also reflected something of the atmosphere of the new age . |
| 30 | But if he suffers to this extent by comparison with Barth , he towers over most other theologians of his generation ; and it is more than a little sad that two men so gifted and with so much in common should not have managed to remain closer to each other . |