Example sentences of "[conj] to what [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 2 | There was no way of knowing just how far the tight band of Rebecca 's control would stretch , or to what extremes she would be driven . |
| 3 | Many English fans even regard West Indian cricket as boring , but it is more impossible to know , as defeat follows defeat follows defeat , to what extent this is an objective judgement or to what extent it is just sour grapes . |
| 4 | Or to what extent should a religious discourse be developed or avoided in favour of every-day language ? |
| 5 | However it is not at all clear to what extent religious ideals were widely shared , or to what extent communal cultivation was an agreed voluntary process . |
| 6 | There are arguments about whether we have some ‘ primordial ’ sense of the world which is in some way independent of the symbol systems we use , or to what extent our visual or aural perceptions of painting or music depend on or are penetrated by the knowledge we have through such systems . |
| 7 | It is not clear how far these princes of the eastern Saxons were operating in Kent on their own initiative or to what extent they were under Aethelred 's control . |
| 8 | We do not know how many species of temperate latitudes have been unable to adjust , and so disqualified themselves as polar colonists , or to what extent existing polar plants are restricted in their distribution by light . |
| 9 | Policy makers have , in effect , left the difficult theoretical questions unaddressed about how , or to what extent , public sector accounting should be different . |
| 10 | But the referent again becomes signifier to the extent that the viewer is reminded how like a comic strip the real world has become , or to what extent the real world now comprises comic strips . |
| 11 | Hence , their views , based as they are on personal first-hand experiences , form an important body of evidence about whether or to what extent Britain lives up to its reputation as a liberal democratic country . |
| 12 | Preliminary results have shown good differentiation between science texts and general texts ; although to what level of detail this can be applied ( i.e. , identification of topic ? ) remains unspecified . |
| 13 | Firstly , the shop 's own data : what sells , when and to what patterns ; buying habits across subject categories ; the effectiveness of instore promotions ; and customer records . |
| 14 | you know what he 'll be able to do and to what contribution he 'll be able to make |
| 15 | Whereas a traditional craftsman would decide what should be done , how it should be done , when it should be done , and to what level of quality , as well as actually executing the task itself , modern management within capitalism takes on all these former conceptual functions , leaving labour merely to carry out the mechanical aspects of performing the manual task . |
| 16 | Can I ask over the last six seven years what local companies have funded the playhouse and to what level ? and how many of actually withdrawn and the reasons why they actually withdrawn ? |
| 17 | But if he was the puppet , who was pulling the strings and to what dance ? |
| 18 | But the more important question is why ? and to what benefit er this change might occur . |
| 19 | There are certain properties we inherit but it is the conditions we live under which dictate how we will develop them and to what purpose we will put them . |
| 20 | Yes , I was going to add to that slightly , and to what Judy said , in in the sense that the implication , the question I think , is a correct one , that every organisation , and N C V O would n't be immune er , than from any other , have got to actually ensure that they keep this at the front of their agenda all the time . |
| 21 | How important these compromises were and to what degree they were amplified by Freemantle or her editors and publishers can not be judged precisely on the evidence available . |
| 22 | Nationalism , like capitalism , is the very bedrock of European organisation : nationalism of one sort or another constitutes the building blocks for the construction of markets , the creation of transport networks , tariff barriers , for banking systems , for economies of scale in industry and business , for defining which internal and which external markets are to exploited and to what degree . |
| 23 | When an emotionally articulate speaker wants to convey to me , not the fact that he is sad , but in what way and to what degree , his language becomes rhythmic and metaphorical , pulls me to his viewpoint to visualize his situation becomes a poetry which infects me with his melancholy and a rhetoric stirring me to help him , and afterwards perhaps I find myself regretting having committed myself to an action in his interests rather than my own . |
| 24 | But it can be difficult to ascertain whether exchange rate pressure is temporary or permanent in nature ; consequently the decision when and to what degree the central monetary authority should intervene is largely a matter of judgement . |
| 25 | … seeks to find out whether , and to what degree , man has during his long tenure of the earth , changed it from its hypothetical pristine condition , for as Yi Fu Tuan ( 1971 ) has put it : ‘ The fact of diminishing nature and of human ubiquity is now obvious ’ . |
| 26 | The difficulty I think that we 're facing , is that it 's happening in year two of a four year transition period , before we 've really got to grips with what the long-term position is , what the overall demands are , and to what degree we are going to be able to model , change , control and , and influence those demands . |
| 27 | And to what spirit sacred : or perchance |
| 28 | In general , too , rhythmic and temporal features of speech are ignored in transcriptions ; the rhythmic structure which appears to bind some groups of words more closely together than others , and the speeding up and slowing down of the overall pace of speech relative to the speaker 's normal pace in a given speech situation , are such complex variables that we have very little idea how they are exploited in speech and to what effect ( but , cf. |
| 29 | One important problem has always been the question of how groups operate and to what effect . |
| 30 | This requirement is greater if the processing involved includes , for example , deciding who will teach a class , when the class will be taught , and to what room the class will be assigned . |