Example sentences of "extent to [pron] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in this part of the book my purpose is more specifically to consider aspects of language and the extent to which they indicate how we are to define our particular subject . |
| 2 | Very few environmentalists would choose to engage in a debate about the extent to which they had either succeeded or sold out . |
| 3 | Conversely , many headquarters staff saw those in the field as too narrowly concerned with the running of their own prison establishments , and resistant to any suggestion that they should be called to account for the extent to which they implemented nationally agreed policies . |
| 4 | In British public schools , for instance , not only are the majority of pupils deliberately drawn from that small section of British society committed to the standards which the public school promotes , but teaching staff are similarly rigorously selected , not merely on the basis of academic competence , but also on the basis of the extent to which they have successfully internalised the standards they are expected to foster among their pupils . |
| 5 | In truth it does not denote any single right , but rather refers to a disparate group of immunities , which differ in nature , origin , incidence and importance , and also as to the extent to which they have already been encroached upon by statute . |
| 6 | Other non-manual groupings are classified by the extent to which they carry out functions of the ‘ collective capitalist ’ : controlling other people 's labour , co-ordinating and managing production . |
| 7 | Otherwise it is still possible to evaluate the British system of social security in terms of the extent to which it matches up to the model outlined by Beveridge in 1942 . |
| 8 | What is surprising is the extent to which it seems continually to be ignored by business information providers . ) |
| 9 | This fails to recognize , however , the extent to which it articulates only the structure of certain specific forms of knowledge rather than some single overarching principle . |
| 10 | The disturbing thing about this letter to Arthur Greeves is the extent to which he does not see that the remedy proposed sounds all too like the disorder he wishes to eliminate . |
| 11 | In the building accounts of the Queen 's College , Oxford , Townesend is referred to as ‘ architecto ’ whereas his father , who had worked there previously , was described as ‘ lapicidae ’ , a distinction which reflects the fact that , like others of his kind , he was certainly able to design as well as to build ; but the extent to which he did so unaided is not entirely clear , many of the projects in Oxford at this time evidently being the work of more than one mind . |