Example sentences of "the extent [that] [pers pn] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first , stricter , doctrine of neutrality allows that individuals may act to implement their ideals in their lives , and in the life of their community , but only to the extent that they can do so by non-political means . |
| 2 | Certain types of bacteria , by genetic mutation , can build up resistance to disinfectants that act in the latter way to the extent that they can become totally immune to normal concentrations even utilising the disinfectant as a food source . |
| 3 | However , encouraging them to the extent that they can be relied upon to keep roses clean is hardly practical . |
| 4 | Whether they actually were subversive becomes irrelevant to the extent that they can now be retrieved to offer a potential that has a contemporary , that is twentieth-century , political relevance . |
| 5 | Although social classes change over time , they are able to reproduce themselves to the extent that they can maintain their distinctive position in the social structure within and across generations . |
| 6 | Many participant-observers feel quite limited in the extent that they can introduce recording apparatus ; when they do record group interaction with a minimum of other observational effects , the data is limited in both quality and quantity . |
| 7 | To the extent that they can no longer satisfactorily perform their duties . |
| 8 | Their efficiency and reliability have also increased , to the extent that they can now be regarded as a primary recharging source for a yacht 's batteries alongside the engine alternator or the petrol generator . |
| 9 | To the extent that we can say what it means , our answer is dependent upon the nature of the remainder of the theory surrounding the sentence . |
| 10 | Thus , the exploration of a present-day divergent state of language resembles the exploration of a historically attested state to the extent that we can not successfully describe either of these in terms of an external ( and usually superordinate ) variety . |
| 11 | In all cases , remember that the information you find is interesting or valuable only to the extent that you can put it to relevant use in your essay ; facts do not come with fixed , off-the-peg significance . |
| 12 | From then on we became the best of friends , to the extent that I ca n't remember us having even one argument . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've never wanted anyone this much — to the extent that I can disregard everything I know about you and believe about myself … |
| 14 | The evolutionary story , to the extent that it can now be understood ( and to the much more modest extent to which I understand it myself ) seems to me to give some support to the view that in this respect the historical story means very much what it seems to mean . |