Example sentences of "extent this " in BNC.
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| 1 | To a large extent this is perhaps inevitably a criticism of the chairman from September 1983 , Robert Reid . |
| 2 | To a very large extent this is what Ashton does in A Month in the Country where the non-dancers speak out from time to time in explicit gestures . |
| 3 | To some extent this decline in quantity was coupled with an improvement in quality . |
| 4 | At the end of the lease the tenant must yield up the premises , together with all buildings , fixtures , trees , and plants thereon , including even what he has himself added ; but to some extent this rule is relaxed in favour of trade and agricultural fixtures ; and a right to remove tenants ’ fixtures may be given by the terms of the lease . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Reported rapes have increased considerably in the 1980s , but it is difficult to tell to what extent this represents a real increase in the number of rapes or an increase in the reporting of them . |
| 7 | ‘ To a great extent this removes the need for the government to resign , ’ said Mr Gennady Burbulis , State Secretary and Mr Yeltsin 's closest aide . |
| 8 | Perhaps to some extent this represents a legacy from Seebohm , a queasiness at what may be inaccurately interpreted as a retreat from the generic ideal . |
| 9 | To what extent this relates to Leapor 's own circumstances is not certain . |
| 10 | But to a lesser extent this is true of natural grandparents , too ; they can not , like parents , assume their significance to a child . |
| 11 | To a certain extent this is proof of their integrity . |
| 12 | To some extent this may reflect the shorter growing season for grasslands in the Cantal LFA ( longer , colder , winters ) though no estimate of this effect is available . |
| 13 | To some extent this line of approach was anticipated by Johnson ( 1981 ) in his study of exposure to plutonium fall-out from the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver ( see Zeigler et al. 1983 : 47–8 ) . |
| 14 | To a certain extent this made economic and political sense : in economic terms it is where the council had most leverage and control , and in political terms it represented a move to a new base , one built on the strength of the white-collar and public sector unions in the changing economy and society of Sheffield . |
| 15 | It is not clear to what extent this view was held in the Low Country , but in Kandyan districts at that the ‘ crime is not , it is to be feared , regarded with sufficient gravity among Kandyans , except by the person victimised . ’ |
| 16 | And to an extent this is why 1993 will be hard at times . |
| 17 | Lucas 's published conclusion ( see panel ) followed the review of payment and payroll systems and to a large extent this set the pattern for all future best practice documents . |
| 18 | Weekly-collection credit ( and to some extent this might include catalogue mail order ) is an attractive buying habit for people — especially poorer people , paid weekly . |
| 19 | It has been found that the intake of nutrients in the diet declines markedly in old age , and whilst it is difficult to determine to what extent this is caused by , or is the cause of , increased physical disease , the connection with elderly health is known to be significant . |
| 20 | To some extent this is due to the relative inelasticity of supply for housing . |
| 21 | To a certain extent this applies to dropping things on the floor and to car and aeroplane crashes , though as we shall see there are some important reservations . |
| 22 | To some extent this has been influenced by the economic structure and market factors in the particular country or industry concerned . |
| 23 | To some extent this has united those who work in the schools . |
| 24 | To what extent this was a natural conservatism and reluctance to use a different method of cutting , or a preference for the clean cut of a knife in skilled hands over the often not so clean cut of earlier designs of secateurs , or a bit of both , I 'm not so sure . |
| 25 | To some extent this could be interpreted literally . |
| 26 | To a greater or less extent this applies to all our sea-birds , but some are more vulnerable than others . |
| 27 | To some extent this applies also to whales and dolphins : some , such as white-sided and white-beaked dolphins , appear to enjoy a boat going at speed and will actively approach and ‘ bow-ride ’ for a time . |
| 28 | It may be asked , however , to what extent this morphology would differ from that of thick-enamelled hominoid ancestors from the Miocene , and on what basis , therefore , should these fossils from Lothagam and Tabarin be identified as human ancestors . |
| 29 | To some extent this has been ameliorated by providing cookers on each of the wings . |
| 30 | To some extent this reflected the accepted division between ‘ science ’ and ‘ policy-making ’ as intellectual activities ; policy-making involved value judgements , and these were simply not appropriate to the ‘ objective ’ scientist . |