Example sentences of "to the extent [prep] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It tried to improve its image ( even to the extent of holding a ‘ Miss KGB ’ contest ! ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even to the extent of providing a TOM . |
| 4 | But he emphasized the trouble he had taken to go into the matter personally , even to the extent of ordering a search in the papal archives . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , he had relented to the extent of allowing the teachers to bring a bottle as long as it was kept out of sight of the paying customers . |
| 6 | It is anticipated that significant improvements to LORASS could improve road safety planning to the extent of achieving a 1% reduction in casualties by the year 2000 . |
| 7 | This becomes clearer when Quine 's scientism is relaxed to the extent of recognizing the autonomy of forms of discourse — for instance , concerning moral or cognitive justification — which are plainly not ‘ scientific ’ , let alone acceptable to a Quinean ‘ physicalist ’ . |
| 8 | Lucky to the extent of meeting a friend who had had the foresight to order a bottle of champagne for the interval . |
| 9 | To help relieve the strain on the calf muscles when front pointing , a slightly knees-bent position is adopted , even to the extent of resting the knee against the ice occasionally . |
| 10 | It was resolutely opposed by the opposition parties even to the extent of provoking a new constitutional crisis by disrupting work within the Senate . |
| 11 | The engine itself is unchanged internally , even to the extent of keeping the normally aspirated version 's highish compression ratio . |
| 12 | In his first book , Talking With Horses , he even went to the extent of compiling a dictionary of horse vocabulary ! |
| 13 | Now the area was being done up by the young middle class , he stubbornly refused to paint his house and remained firmly working class to the extent of asking the Council to bring back his outside toilet . |
| 14 | As for being ‘ alarmist ’ , it 's right to be ultra cautious ( even to the extent of junking an untrustworthy drive ) when you 're using a hard disk to store valuable data . |
| 15 | There were around 50 aircraft assembled from aero clubs throughout Argentina for the flying at Rio Cuarto , and a team of engineers worked flat out to solve the snags — even to the extent of changing the engine on one aircraft . |
| 16 | For these reasons , I would dismiss the appeal save to the extent of making the necessary variation of the order of Thorpe J. |
| 17 | But he did not admit defeat to the extent of turning the television off ; he simply left it on and went into another room . |
| 18 | However , a number of children have been identified who have no such component skills , even to the extent of giving no reliable IQ score at all . |
| 19 | The chairman then went to the extent of scrapping every committee , and having three full council meetings a week , on the grounds that every member should consider every issue . |
| 20 | I would therefore vote for a Labour candidate only if he or she guarantees opposition to the party manifesto 's support for abortion to the extent of denying the Whip . |
| 21 | But at least everyone will be able to see just how much water they are using , even to the extent of checking the meter just before turning on the sprinkler , and then switching off when the dial shows enough water has been sprayed to cover the lawn or vegetable patch . |
| 22 | Completed shortly after he got out of the university , Nice Work retreated from academe to the extent of featuring a central character — Vic Wilcox , a dour Midlands MD — who , almost uniquely among his fictional creations , would not have read the novels of David Lodge . |
| 23 | Anna had recovered to the extent of running a house again — a furnished one in Regent 's Park — and of going out a little . |
| 24 | if he permitted African businessmen to grow [ they ] will grow to the extent of becoming a rival power to his and the party 's prestige , and he would do anything to stop it . |
| 25 | The coffee bar evangelist had identified with Church C to the extent of becoming a member , but as a newcomer he was not able to influence the traditional pattern of Sunday worship . |
| 26 | If it is weak on aesthetics , it is notably strong on pedagogy , almost to the extent of limiting the concept of learning ( p. 80 ) . |
| 27 | The Guinness Articles of Association relaxed the general rule of equity , which forbids a trustee to profit from his trust , to the extent of enabling a director to make such a profit provided the Board of Directors of the company approved any special remuneration . |