Example sentences of "[adv] to [art] extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roof-rack alone carried half a ton of water , fuel and spares , and the Land Rover was fully loaded inside to the extent that the leaf springs were flattened . |
| 2 | Now that 's fair enough because we 've actually bunged more in in terms of testing , we 're covered in testing , and we 've got temps who are less productive , so to an extent we , we , we , we ou our budget did expect that bump . |
| 3 | This is so to the extent that the claim for a structurally distinct postmodernist mode of signification breaks down in the face of a variety of historical avant-garde practices ranging across Europe from London to Vienna and Moscow in the hands of such as Eliot , Joyce , the Cubists , Surrealists and others ( including , somewhat surprisingly , Kokoschka ) . |
| 4 | It is the business of language to represent reality , so to the extent that it is stuck in a vanished world where woman 's place was in the home , and so on , language is misleading us and failing to do its job . |
| 5 | When the press noted the change in tone , Hitler agreed that he had altered his stance , but only to the extent , he said , that he had earlier been too mild , and had realized while at work on Mein Kampf that the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was one not solely for the German people , but for all peoples , ‘ for Juda is the world plague ’ . |
| 6 | Are we really nice to others only to the extent that they carry the genes we do , or to the extent that our ‘ niceness ’ will definitely be reciprocated . |
| 7 | I will engage in these subversive activities either only to the extent that they are lawful , or where the risk to the reputation of my university is overshadowed by the importance of my revolutionary activities . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | constitute a challenge to interference theory only to the extent that this theory is constrained to predict that the aversive CR acquired in the first stage of training should fail to transfer fully to a new test context . |
| 10 | C , lacking an association with X , will be able to evoke the test response only to the extent that , without any special training , it holds elements in common with A. Now , for acquired distinctiveness to occur , for the generalization between A and C to be reduced , it is necessary for the training procedures to reduce the extent to which these common elements acquire strength . |
| 11 | Only to the extent that we are becoming aware of the mercies of God . |
| 12 | There may be a freedom to protest — but it exists only to the extent that it is permitted by the police . |
| 13 | The chink in this otherwise disarming argument is that Nature exists only to the extent that we comprehend it . |
| 14 | Obscene matter could be outlawed only to the extent that it went beyond ideas to become an ‘ incitement to action or an excitation ’ . |
| 15 | He happily helps the farmer but also has some sympathy with the cuddly pet view , if only to the extent that he would n't want to be responsible for wiping rabbits out — as if he could ! |
| 16 | I 'd learned their names only to the extent that they owned horses in the horse car or had touched bases with Filmer , which came to only about half . |
| 17 | To the extent that activities are spontaneous it appears that they belong to the realm of the caused ( which in the case of biological process is obvious enough ) , and that he is a free agent only to the extent that he learns to direct them . |
| 18 | Choices of ends , as of means , are debatable in terms of public tests ( of whether things are in fact as the agent imagines them , whether his reactions as observed in his behaviour are as he feels them to be ) , but can take account of public observations only to the extent that they are subjectively confirmed . |
| 19 | As a result , a subsidiary will be able to acquire shares in its parent only to the extent that the parent is able to acquire its own shares . |
| 20 | They are liable to UK income and capital gains tax generally only on UK sources , and on foreign income and gains only to the extent that these are remitted to the UK . |
| 21 | Provision is made for deferred taxation only to the extent that it is probable that the tax will become payable , and is at the rate at which it is estimated that the tax will be paid . |
| 22 | History was no longer a sequence of events but a drama in which scene followed scene and act followed act , the whole process being rational , but understood only to the extent that the particular was related to the whole . |
| 23 | In other words communism under freedom is possible only to the extent that people are motivated by non-economic rewards . |
| 24 | Under such circumstances characteristics of adult language input would be reflected in differential rates of progress only to the extent that they coincided with the child 's existing ‘ style ’ of learning language ( Gleitman et al . |
| 25 | But this is to allow the opponent to set the terms for debate , accepting assumptions that feminists ought perhaps to question ( for example , that women should be treated equally only to the extent that they resemble men ) and thus conceding a vital part of the argument . |
| 26 | If the failure of the ‘ ideological forms ’ lies in the operation of an idealist epistemology , the specific instances of ideological forms ( religion , aesthetics , the law , politics , philosophy ) that Marx mentions , seem doomed only to the extent that they depend on an idealist epistemology . |
| 27 | In general , therefore , military preparedness must be adjudged legally valid only to the extent that it constitutes a threat to use force in circumstances amounting to legitimate self-defence . |
| 28 | ‘ I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical , economic , or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty . ’ |
| 29 | Even when a team exists , they can succeed in ‘ permeating ’ a special needs element into initial teacher training only to the extent that they influence all their fellow specialist tutors to widen their teaching perspectives to include children with special needs . |
| 30 | All might preserve some religious truth and meaning , but none could be allowed to make any absolute claims , though each would be acceptable to the extent — but only to the extent — that it conformed or could be made to conform to the standard of natural religion , conceived of as a set of beliefs or principles which could stand very well on their own feet . |