Example sentences of "[art] [noun] to the extent " in BNC.

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1 Two members of the Warnock Committee dissented from the majority to the extent of permitting surrogacy as a treatment for childlessness under the general supervision of a licensing authority ; and they also suggested that payment to a surrogate mother should not be a barrier to the child being adopted by the commissioning couple .
2 Events occurring before 16th June 1993 have been reflected in the Accounts to the extent required by SSAP 17 .
3 Others have discovered that if you depress a note behind the slide , the string passes under it enabling it to sound ; but no-one has taken the technique to the extent that this man has .
4 Many women in the French fabliaux are described as beautiful , and thus alluring in such a way as to motivate the fabliau plot , but none is made poetically truly so within the text to the extent that Chaucer 's Alison is .
5 The Carrier shall be relieved of its obligation to perform the contract to the extent that the performance thereof is prevented by failure of the Trader , fire , weather conditions , industrial dispute , labour disturbance or cause beyond the reasonable control of the Carrier .
6 If the client informs its trading partners before entering into a contract that it will not insist on the strict letter of the terms , it may be estopped from relying on their letter ; similarly , if the client describes the effect of a term , a court may hold that the client is bound by that description and can only enforce the term to the extent of that description ( Curtis v Chemical Cleaning and Dyeing Co Ltd [ 1951 ] 1 KB 805 ) .
7 For psychology , … the question of its essence , or ( more modestly ) of its concept , also puts in question the very existence of the psychologist to the extent that , being unable to declare exactly what he is , he finds it extremely difficult to answer for what he does .
8 It was said in Scorer v Seymour-Johns [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 347 per Salmon LJ that the special element can be characterised as the connection relying on the employee to the extent that they regard him as the business rather than his employer : in that case the employer 's business had many recurring customers ( cf Fellowes & Son v Fisher [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 829 ) .
9 Funds could therefore be appointed out to the children or other relevant UK beneficiaries without a tax charge ( although if subsequently income arose in the structure that could be assessed on the beneficiaries to the extent of the relevant income ) .
10 l here were about a dozen customers , mostly middle-aged men sitting alone reading Evening Standards who only troubled the barman to the extent that occasionally he had to turn down the corner of a page of his Stephen King paperback .
11 Mr. Lester submitted that the time has come to relax the rule to the extent which I have mentioned .
12 They generally co-operated with the administration to the extent of providing money for the latest schemes ; participation , of course , was another matter .
13 I realised , perhaps more than most , that it would have been so easy to become absorbed and involved with the boat to the extent of the customs work taking second place .
14 The choice of a serial implement tat ion for a computer would affect the architecture to the extent that we must choose a representation for negative numbers that can economically be processed in a serial manner .
15 Some individuals can take up the suggestions of the hypnotist to the extent of becoming deaf or blind or unable to smell ; they may withstand pain without a murmur , re-experience being a six-year old , or even forget everything that happened , after hypnosis , until given a prearranged ‘ release ’ signal .
16 If we humanize the cat to the extent where we start to give it human medication , we may be hurting it when we are trying to be kind .
17 Type 1 , when the parent under-nourishes and under-stimulates the child to the extent that the child suffers nutritional , emotional , social and intellectual neglect .
18 However , if there is then an advancement to the unmarried minor out of capital , that capital is treated as income paid to the child to the extent of the accumulated income .
19 Moreover , the pretrial phase dominated the process to the extent that the pretrial dossier formed the basis for the final verdict without being put to further searching judicial scrutiny .
20 However , in the more usual case of a fatal accidents inquiry it is more common for the sheriff to become quite deeply involved in the technical causes of the accident to the extent of making recommendations for preventing other accidents in the future .
21 By bombing suspected or known terrorist hideouts , the Lincolns deprived the bandits the advantage of establishing well defended bases and the continual air harassment kept the terrorists on the move to the extent that their efficiency and morale suffered considerably .
22 The bank would give him facilities to purchase the business to the extent of seventy five thousand pounds if he agreed to sell his property at and from the proceeds of sale to repay the bridging facility in its entirety and they would provide a sixteen thousand pounds business loan and overdraught facilities to be reduced by five thousand pounds within a few days and if the six thousand pounds rent deposit was not required then the business loan would be reduced to ten thousand pounds .
23 The Prime Minister can not correct the record to the extent of pretending that both he and the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Thames ( Mr. Lamont ) have not said that today 's conditions , with all their misery , are not a price well worth paying .
24 On the contrary they assist the plaintiff to the extent that his case accords with legislative policy and the Act at least recognises the possibility that he has a valid claim at common law — the fact that the Law Commission , whose Report on Injuries to Unborn Children ( 1974 ) ( Cmnd. 5709 ) led to the Act of 1976 , considered this a probability is perhaps not a matter which the plaintiff can properly pray in aid .
25 Where s19 applies , there is simply a Schedule E income tax charge on the managers to the extent of the benefit they have received , on the basis that this constitutes an emolument from their office or employment .
26 These slow waves pervade the head to the extent that they are also picked up by the EOG electrodes , just as K complexes are .
27 but er any attempt to put anything on at the back to the extent , right up to the Scout 's hut in Beech Hall will , I think , generate a lot of feelings about
28 It was hard to tell what the tide was doing , for I could n't see the shore , but each time the anchor held the dinghy would be carried one way or the other to the extent of her scope .
29 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 .
30 However , Attlee 's position was a complex one : he was more ready than anyone to criticize strategic arguments used to justify such expenditure , but was never willing to push the arguments to the extent of causing a serious rift with Bevin , who was perhaps the key minister in the government after Attlee .
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