Example sentences of "to [art] extent that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He applied himself enthusiastically to his studies , to the extent that during one term he was attending night classes after completing his normal day classes at Queensbury Highter Elementary School in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 2 | The University of Cape Town Ballet had been there before , in 1941 and 1942 , building up local support to the extent that on their third visit , in September 1943 , all six performances in the Great Hall at Milner Park ( the theatre belonging to Witwatersrand University ) were sold out before the opening night . |
| 3 | I have seen the report and am considering its implications carefully , but it is just worth pointing out that in 11 of the past 12 Budgets we have taken steps to encourage employee share ownership to the extent that by the end of March last year about 2.25 million employees had benefited under all employee share schemes and had received options or shares with an initial value of £6.5 billion . |
| 4 | Moreover , to the extent that in order to establish or preserve a just government a qualified recognition of authority is necessary , such recognition in itself , independently of consent , is sufficient to establish a suitably qualified obligation to obey . |
| 5 | list , to the extent that in many instances the weights recorded for each species in the two lists are quite different . |
| 6 | Lindblom ( 1977 ) , for example , argues that business interests are in a politically privileged position , to the extent that in any bargain struck between business and government , its terms will largely be dictated by business . |
| 7 | But such people forgot that for most Americans television is an inherently incredible medium , and to the extent that in the King case it might be believable , demonstrated merely that Los Angeles police officers were subduing a human who , out of sight of the video camera , might have been threatening these officers with fists , machine pistol or portable Scud missile . |
| 8 | In recent years it has moved far more towards conceptualization in terms of ‘ theory ’ and ‘ practice ’ , to the extent that in some areas ( e.g. Iocational studies , certain parts of geomorphology ) the theory dominates the practice . |
| 9 | By this time , however , the appellant was encountering financial problems , and the company likewise , to the extent that in February 1986 a finance company obtained judgment against the appellant in respect of a loan of £4,000 and the company went into liquidation in February 1987 . |
| 10 | Thus the traditional retirement resorts have already experienced a large increase in the number of very elderly people who place extra demands on health and residential care facilities , to the extent that in places like Worthing , Hastings , Eastbourne and Clacton around one in eight people were aged 75 or over in 1981 . |
| 11 | This does not necessarily disprove the contention that TNCs exploit women workers in particular in the Third World , though it does modify the thesis to the extent that in some developing countries TNCs do provide some good jobs for women that help them to fulfil relatively freely chosen cultural needs . |
| 12 | As we shall see in Section 6.5 , some weathering products show a remarkable resilience to changing environmental conditions to the extent that in some circumstances they can persist in the landscape essentially unaltered for tens of millions of years . |